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How To Do Everything

Water, Hawks, and 24

How To Do Everything

NPR

4.21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2014

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

How to get your very own bottled water past a TSA checkpoint, defend your international tennis tournament from varmints, and protect the President.

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0:00.0

We may have a way to get through a TSA checkpoint without giving up your water.

0:05.2

We got this text from Nora.

0:07.2

If water in the water bottle is frozen, can I take it through TSA?

0:11.8

Now what she's getting at is, you know, they make you pour out liquids, but they're really saying

0:16.0

no liquids, they're not saying no water.

0:18.8

And what Nora had done the night before is she'd taken a bottle of water and frozen it.

0:23.6

So now it was a solid, it wasn't a liquid anymore.

0:26.4

And she was about to go through security.

0:28.7

Well, actually, before I got to the line,

0:32.0

there's a woman standing there kind of doing the triage and I showed

0:36.2

it to her and I was like, do you think I can take this in? And she was like, your ice is fine.

0:41.0

And I was like, awesome. So I just went right through they did take a look at it

0:45.9

yeah you know but I drank all the water off the ice cube first and then it was yeah

0:52.3

it was just a big cylinder of ice in there

0:53.9

did you get the impression she said your ice is fine do you get the impression this

0:57.5

happens a lot that people bring ice through security maybe yeah I know it seemed to be like

1:02.2

oh whatever you know.

1:03.4

Yeah, I think it maybe happens a lot.

1:05.4

It seems strange.

1:06.4

It seems like, I mean, that's kind of like a technicality that you got through on, that your

1:10.6

water was in a solid, solid state state even though it's still water it still has all

1:16.6

the same properties that it will when it's liquid it's as dangerous as it was

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