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Old Feb 8, 2010 | 12:17 pm
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Originally Posted by starlanet
Last week, at LAX (LAX to JFK), I left on purpose a bottle of water (yeah, thirsty and tired and also tired of the rip-off prices at airports) in the hope nobody would notice, but they did. I won additional hand searches of carry-on and laptop bag (one TSO -female- yelled at me because of the water and took laptop bag away from my sight, other TSO -male- was much nicer, took care of my carry-on, in front of me).

When I was collecting all my things, I noticed I had forgotten 2 hand & body lotion bottles (less than 3 oz each, but "unbagged", my 311 bag was already full, these were supposed to be in my checked bag, but I had forgotten to put them there). I didn't want to favorite lotion confiscated, I was lucky, I guess.
The moral to this story is that all any terrorist has to do to get forbidden items through security is to create a large bottle of water diversion.
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