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Just scanning the news sites and came across an article on Yahoo News that They’re starting to do random bag searches in New York subways.

Oh goody!

I don’t know how they can be seriously trying to do that!  It’s freaking nuts.  Now I’ll admit I’m from Ohio and things are a bit different but I’ve spent a few weekends in the big apple.  I rode the subways around and I’ve seen how massive the flow of people can be at certain stations and times of day.  Trying to do random bag searches on people is just a waste of time. 

It might be ok at first but people will get tired of it.  It’s not like airports where people have plenty of time and no where to go.  People on public transit usually are in a hurry because they have things to do.

I don’t know.  I guess it just bothers me that this is probably just the start.  I’m willing to bet someone is already thinking about how to put in metal detectors, use bomb sniffing dogs, etc at every station.

It’ll be nuts if they tried to pull that kind of crap.

Yesh