On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:15:33 -0700 (PDT), MIG wrote:
And anyway, people standing with rucksacks are nowhere near as much of
a menace as the people dragging handbags on poles through crowded
concourses and passageways. If anything's going to be banned, it
should be those.

Before those are banned we need to regulate umbrella carrying so that
it is an offence to hold it with the open canopy below the head height
of the tallest person.