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Old Oct 19, 2009 | 1:17 pm
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Originally Posted by Sebastian_R
I disagree on this one: I have often times bought perfumes and other liquids on airports (mostly since I'm too disorganized to other stuff done) ever since the liquid ban I'm not buying anything any longer. Too many times I experienced that the "super sealed" bag was not admitted in Europe / the US (depending on where you fly from) and had to be disposed of. And ever since the TSA suspected my cheese to be a weapon(!) and considered a glass of jam dangerous enough to qualify for immediate destruction I gave up hope and just stopped buying stuff.
Same here. I just do not buy anything at the airport anymore. If and when the EU suspends the liquid nonsense, I'll buy something there again.

Until then, I'm going to climb aboard the Spiff bandwagon and tell them to go pound sand.
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