Assault with a deadly Evian bottle

Will police start confiscating straphangers' water bottles now that the threat of "liquid explosives" has received so much attention?

Searches of Bags in Subway Upheld

NEW YORK, Aug. 11 -- A federal appeals court said Friday that random bag searches on New York subways are constitutional, agreeing with a lower court that the police tactic is an effective and minimally invasive way to help protect a prime terrorism target.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit rejected a challenge to the searches by the New York Civil Liberties Union, saying U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman properly concluded in December that the program was "reasonably effective."

And just how the hell do they know that such searches have been "reasonably effective"?

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