Good News for Airline Passengers: Especially Wood Whittlers and/or if you're prone to separation anxiety from your small baseball bat

Sure....Why should the guy in the seat next to me be able to check his email and I not be able to whittle away my time as well?

The Transportation Security Administration is going to let travelers carry small knives and some sports equipment aboard passenger planes for the first time since 2001, which airline attendants say will make flights more dangerous for them and for passengers. 

TSA Administrator John Pistole announced the change Tuesday and said it would take effect April 25. It will put U.S. restrictions for carry-on items in line with international rules, he said. 

The policy change marks a big shift by the TSA in loosening what have been tighter restrictions for items allowed in carry-on luggage since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. It's in keeping with Pistole's shift toward a risk-based air security system. 

"The focus is on what could present catastrophic damage to the aircraft," said David Castelveter, a TSA spokesman. 

The items that the TSA said would be allowed: 

• Knives without a molded grip and with blades that don't lock and are less than 6 centimeters, or 2.36 inches. 

• Novelty-size and toy bats less than 24 inches long and weighing less than 24 ounces.

Read the rest HERE.

It's so reassuring to know that if a passenger puts one of these knives to another passenger's throat as a threat to divert a plane, the pilot will most likely just continue on to the original destination while the stewardesses try to talk some sense into the attacker.

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