Originally Posted by PTravel
Yesterday, I asked a TSA supervisor about tripods. His answer: it's at the discretion of the inspector. He suggested I bring the tripod to the screening point first and ask, so if the answer THAT DAY is, "no," I can still put it in my checked bag.
This is not helpful at all.
That's pathetic that you have to do that. I honestly don't know where some of those supervisors get off saying things aren't allowed when they're not on the prohibited items list. Nowhere does it say that heavy items are not allowed and it's idiotic to "assume" that a tripod or hand weights "might" be used as something else. "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."