Originally Posted by
Boggie Dog
GSOLTSO is supposedly a BDO and most likely not searching bags of any kind.
It is clear that the TSA website DOES NOT say nitro pills are permitted. It doesn't state one way or the other. The undefined green bar has no meaning and if it did the verbage is about LGA's in excess of 3.4 ounces.
And as you have learned a complaint to TSA is very unlikely to result in any action. TSA farms out the complaint process to contractors. That's how interested TSA is in your complaint, not at all!
Perhaps you could take an empty nitro vial with you to test TSA's reaction to carrying this medicine.
Well, they certainly do a lot more in-depth bag searching at GSO than I have experienced or witnessed at other airports if gsoltso himself has conducted or witnessed so many bag searches that involved removing individual items like pill bottles and reading the labels. (He didn't mention if he also opens the bottles). I've had bag searches before, but that was the only one that was that detailed - which is why they found my pills, inside their double bottle inside my toiletry kit inside my rollaboard.
Absent a post from Blogger Bob, I am not going to risk taking the pills ever again. I was warned, accused of trying to 'willfully' get contraband past the checkpoint, told I was lucky to fly that day, let alone ever again, ID and BP copied, report made, bla-bla. I got the message loud and clear.
gsoltso, I'm not sure what you think will happen if I take the chance, carry my pills, get challenged and show the TSO the website entry you are talking about.
Any reasonably intelligent TSO will say the same thing I'm saying: "This entry applies to medical liquids. Your pills are not liquid. What does this have to do with anything?"