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09:44 May 17th, 2008

Sir, that carry-on bag is too large! Sir!

Posted by: Robert Basler
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police-2-160.jpgHandy Summer Travel Tip #42: Airlines are clamping down on carry-on luggage regulations. If you have a hanging bag for your suits, you may meet resistance in carrying it aboard the airplane. 

Take these two businessmen, who are probably violating several other airline rules in the process of expressing their very strong feelings about their carry-on bags. In international airline parlance, this maneuver is known as “The Butch and Sundance Ploy.”

Please return for tomorrow’s Handy Summer Travel Tip #43: “Gasoline too expensive? Eight rolling road trips you can take that are entirely downhill…”

police-tis-360.jpgMembers of Austrian police special unit demonstrate skills during a drill for the EURO 2008 in Wiener Neustadt, Austria, May 16, 2008.REUTERS/Herbert Neubaue

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Don’t mind them, bro’. It’s just a taze they’re going through.

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

Chuck’s Seraphim just doesn’t have the same ring to it.

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