Items confiscated at airports

From The Independent newspaper this week:

Live animals and handcuffs are among the most confiscated items taken from passengers at airport security.  In a survey conducted by comparison site JetCost revealed that the most confiscated item was handcuffs, with 14 per cent of those surveyed admitting to having the item taken away from them.

More than 2,194 Britons over 18 were asked whether they’d ever had anything removed from their luggage by security while travelling - after first being asked if they had ever been tempted to take a souvenir home.  Second on the list of most confiscated items were nature related souvenirs such as sand or foliage - while nine per cent of respondents said when they tried to bring back a sample of sand from a particular beach, it’d be confiscated.

Living animals came third on the list, with 8 per cent saying creatures including lizards and spiders had to be left behind after they tried to bring them back from abroad.

This was the full list:

1. Handcuffs - 14%

2. Sand / foliage / other part of the natural surroundings - 9%

3. A living animal (i.e. lizards, spiders etc.) - 8%

4. Tent pegs - 6%

5. A dead animal (i.e. pheasant) - 3%

It might just be me but I'm more concerned with the ones trying to bring spiders, lizards, dead animals and tent pegs in their carry on luggage, than the ones with handcuffs....  But 14%??  Really???

Leggings?!

"Listen - I really don't care in the least what they told you in the shop where you bought them.  I'm telling you now and you'd do well to listen.  Those are not leggings - they are tights.  They are completely unsuitable for you to go outside in public wearing them in that manner.  So I'll tell you what I'm going to do to help you appreciate that for the future.  When we get home you'll go upstairs and fetch me that large wooden hairbrush from your dressing table.  Then I'm going to put you across my knee and apply the hairbrush with some vigour to the seat of your 'leggings' - I'm very confident that you'll quickly come to realise that they do not offer an appropriate level of protection for being seen in public and you'll have something to remember the next time you're choosing your wardrobe to go shopping."

The Dare

"Go on mate - I dare you!  You can even borrow my leash if you want to make it really sting..."

Education

As well as teaching kids the basics like reading and writing I think it's good to see examples of them being taught how to enjoy themselves when they get older...

Favourite for October

I'm confident that, even within the confines of the CP community and my regular viewers, I'm probably in a small minority with being keen on this image.

I can't help it but I just have a thing for opaque black tights (pantyhose) and the way that modern girls have embraced them as if they were some sort of cloak of invisibility.  The consequence is a willingness to wear shorter skirts and so it's easier to flip the skirt back to administer a spanking, sound in the knowledge that they're not actually going to offer any noticeable protection.  I also like her expression - I'm not sure which she is objecting to more, the spanking she's about to get, or having someone photograph her in such a demeaning position   Fortunately sullen resentment can be changed very quickly with a few hard smacks.

Thanks to Sound Punishment for the image.