You know, sometimes I think you'd really have to try to get caught and even then you might not be.

I flew back from SFO in First yesterday. At SFO Airport about an hour before the plane was going to board, I noticed a young couple past security with a six pack carrier of wine and an open bottle. They apparently came through security after I did about an hour before the plane was going to board. They finished pouring the bottle into 16oz plastic cups in the gate area and then threw the empty bottle away. I'm not sure what is scarier, that they were let through security with an open bottle or that they managed to drink most of a 750ml bottle in about 30 minutes at the gate area.

Anyway the story gets better. I get on the plane and they board later to go sit back in coach still holding the 16oz plastic cups full of wine and you could smell it (over oaked Chardonnay)! They went past the gate agent and the flight attendant at the front of the cabin holding open containers of alcohol and apparently no one said anything!

(Times and flight details have been eliminated so as not to get anyone in trouble.)