Originally Posted by
lmsalman
. I occasionally need to travel with large packets of printed materials which on the x-ray appear as basically a blackhole of nothing which will almost always trigger additional screening. I’ve gotten in the habit of pulling out the printed materials and running them through separately, and every time the screeners working the x-ray recognize what I’m doing and have never had to do additional screenings of my bags or the printed materials.
This is a great idea. Can you pull the skates out, place them in a separate bin for screening? This way they're out and visible.
When I travel with riding gear everything goes into a bin separately, just in case, including the gloves.