As we mostly all know, the TSA has suggested changing their
current policy to permit airline passengers to bring small pen knives as
carry-on items. Some people are uncomfortable with this decision, particularly
flight attendant unions (I don’t blame them!), and so the implementation of
this law change has been delayed. But if they want to convince people about
allowing passengers to bring small pen knives on board airline flights, why not
make a public service announcement to demonstrate how safe it will be?
Okay, so here’s my idea for a (joke) PSA about the policy to
allow passengers to bring small knives aboard airline flights: We see people
boarding an airplane, and among the passengers are some well-known and
recognizable Slasher movie killers, like Michael Myers from Halloween (in the William Shatner mask), Jason from Friday
the 13th (in his hockey goalie’s mask),
etc. And everyone straps in, and the flight takes off. Well, once the captain
permits people to move about the cabin, the Slasher killers get up to stalk
their prospective victims, but they only have little teensy wimpy pen knives with them, so
everyone just laughs at them instead of running in terror. Then the announcer
says that small pen knives pose hardly any risk, and so everyone should be
comfortable with them on the plane. (And then he gets his throat cut with a pen
knife and dies. Which could actually happen with a pen knife, which is why I
think it would be advisable to continue the current policy of banning them from
the plane. In fact, maybe this whole scenario would work better as an ad
opposing allowing even small pen knives on the plane. That ad would have the
same scenario, but when the killers try to kill their victims, they have no
knives or weapons of any kind, and so they can’t harm anyone. And then the
announcer says that with current TSA policy, even the worst killers can’t harm
anyone on board an airplane, so let’s keep it that way. And that wouldn’t even
have to be a joke ad; it might really work to communicate its message well as
is. {But it is admittedly a bit over the line perhaps.})
