Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Jeffy's Corner: Free Flying E-Cig Ban

Episode Date: February 14, 2015

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You're listening to the Jeff Fisher Show. How does this happen? How in the world is this possible? The plane hopper. The Transportation Security Administration is investigating how a woman with the history of boarding airplanes without a ticket was able to fly ticket-free from Minnesota to Florida. How is that possible? You tell me. We have to go through body cavity searches.

And yet this lady doesn't have a ticket. Marilyn Harbin arrested Sunday in Jacksonville, Florida, scheduled to appear in court. I tried to get an update. I didn't see any update on what happened in her court date. She may not have had it. She told investigators she boarded the plane in Minneapolis-St. Paul without a ticket and flew to Jacksonville. She then boarded a shuttle to an upscale hotel, and the driver asked if she was a specific guest. She said, yes, and used the name to check into the hotel.

You don't know how many times I've actually thought of doing that. Would you see the drivers out and they've got the little names on the cards? Yeah, that's me. And off we go. That's tremendous. That's a good plan right there. Although they frowned upon it once you get to the, you know, if she checked, I would just take it to the, maybe to the hotel, maybe check it another name. But she's just traveling for free.

Hartman has made several attempts to sneak aboard flights elsewhere. She was jailed last August for taking a flight from San Jose to L. Los Angeles without a ticket. Released three days into her six-month sentence after that. She said, you know, I really want to go to Hawaii. Yeah, you know what? I'd like to go to Hawaii for free, too. Although, once you're there, you still have to, you don't you?

Oh, no, you're just checking under somebody else's name. Mrs. Johnson? Yeah, that's me. You go in here? Yes. Yes, I am. But I'd like to know. Serious business.

How do you get on a plane in today's world without a ticket? Let's see. You have to show your ticket at the TSA line, right, with ID. Now, they might not really look at it. I know there's been some struggles with that, you know, in the past where, you know, they use a different ID or the picture isn't the same or the ticket is different than the, you know, whatever. I get that. And for the most part, that has not been my experience.

The workers usually look at the ticket, look at the picture, you know, because I, you know, You know, then they look at it and make sure that you are who you are or who you say you are. Then you don't have to show your ticket anymore until, well, yeah, you have to show your boarding pass to the TSA when you go through the machine. I don't remember. I think you do. Not positive about that, though. And then I guess you could say you left it in your bag and they just put you through. Bebe, beep.

No, you're good. and then you have to stamp it when you're getting on the plane. So how do you get on that plane without a ticket? You have to have some kind of boarding pass, right? You have to have something. She's got to have a fake, like pick one on an old one up out of the trash, down by the luggage place where people drop it. People are leaving the airport and their luggage and everything.

And boom, then the boarding pass drops. They're through with it. They don't think anything of it. so you have an old boarding pass something. I'm going to have to try to talk. We're going to have to try on this broadcast. The Jeff Fisher Show on the Blaze Radio Network to get a hold of Marilyn Hartman,

because I want to know how she's doing it. That's tremendous. That's almost a catch-me if you can. California health officials declared electronic cigarettes a health threat, and they should be strictly regulated like tobacco products. Yes, they should.

Because why? Vaping is growing in popularity. Yeah. Yeah, and it's growing in popularity, and so we need to regulate it. Bad. We need tighter controls on that. A report saying,

e-cigarettes emit cancer-causing chemicals and get users hooked on nicotine. But, you know, I know, I know, I know, I know. The research needs to be done. A little bit more research needs to be done to determine, you know, immediate and long-term effects. Yeah. Yeah.

You mean like, I don't know, butter that was bad. Now it's okay. Sugar is bad. Now it's okay. Salt was bad. Now it's okay. M.S.G was bad. Now it's okay.

Stuff like that. Yeah. You know, we'll just check on that. But right now, right now we need to ban it. We need to ban electronic cigarettes. How, I do not, There's a city not far from here in the Metroplex that banned it. I don't get it.

It doesn't do anything. Anyway. Okay, now I want you to listen to this now. It's very important. They banned the sale of e-cigarettes to minors in 2010. Okay? 2010. Now, they also are talking about, you know, children are consuming liquid nicotine with flavors,

cotton candy, gummy bears, all that kind of stuff. Children with five with e-cigarette poisoning jumped. Okay. All right, I got you. Maybe we need to, I don't know. Maybe we talked to the e-cigarette companies about having a little campaign about safety. We don't regulate it. We don't make it a law.

We ask. We ask nicely. If they say no, oh well. But this part here, health officials want to be proactive on this important public. issue, said Lisa Waddell, who leads community health and prevention at the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials. The issue of real concern here is, we really don't know everything that's in these products. Right, so we're going to regulate it.

And you're seeing a rise of the use of these products in our children as well as our adults, but you already banned the sale to minors. So whose fault is that? There's already a law. And Gregory Connolly, president of the e-cigrate, advocacy group. Despite the health officer's false claims, there is ample evidence that vaping helps

smokers quit and is far less hazardous than smoking. So many more stories from the overdose of social media news coming up.