I have a Garmin Friction mount for my GPS so I can easily remove it from rental cars. I've had it for 2 years and it always goes in the same spot in my backpack. I've traveled through big and small airports with it weekly.



Early after I got it CLT called a bag check, saw it, then returned my stuff to me.
A couple months later CLT asked me if I had a GPS mount in my bag. I said yes and they let me through without opening my bag.

Today at YYZ they had 4 different screeners looking at the Xray screen. Finally they let the bag through and opened it. They found my friction mount and proceeded to manhandle it. The first bag check guy passed it off to another screener who manhandled it, then sent it through the Xray.

It cleared the xray and was clearly the object that perplexed them so they continued to squeeze each compartment. I bet if they would have had a knife handy they would have opened it up and let the beans fall out thus making it useless.

Does Canada not have friction mounts for GPS units? You'd think by now an airport as busy as YYZ would have seen one.

I asked the bag check guy if he had ever seen a GPS mount before and he said that it was not obviously a GPS mount and he was just doing his job.


Also thought it was weird that the first step of a bag check was to take my boarding pass. In the US they never take my boarding pass for a routine bag check. They only cared about boarding passes for SSSS since they had to sign off that it was done. The CATSA guy didn't write down anything. I also had to beg for my BP back. The guy said he gave it back to me already, then realized it was still there in front of hi