A very lethal blade can be constructed from fibre glass, this is impossible to detect by any currently
operating scanner/metal detector !
I was challenged shortly after 9-11 by one of the many newly recruited security staff (rent a cop) at JFK
for having steel shanks inside my Ice climbing boots, when I tried to explain that this was normal, he
insisted on cutting them open to verify this fact.
Finally I had to enlist the help of a patrolling army officer, he was happy to verify that yes this was
normal (his brother ice climbed) and that he too had steel plates inside his boots for land mine protection. |