Originally Posted by Insiderdude
Reading the article - it seems like it may be a Canadian TSA policy to test battery-operated devices, but I travel YYC often and no one has really paid attention any devices. On another note, for those of you TSA employed, if you were to confiscate something, do you offer a shipping option or is the item just taken and never given back?
Yes, Canada does seem to have such a policy. One time I traveled through Toronto with a discharged cell-phone. It wasn't broken; I had simply used all of its battery power and didn't have my charger with me. This caused no end of trouble for me. An extremely hostile young woman ordered me to turn on the phone and then told me that if the phone couldn't be turned on, it would have to be checked. I had not checked any luggage and really didn't have time to go back and do that. Finally, a supervisor stepped in and got enough of a rise out of my dead phone to allow it through. What a nightmare experience that was! By the way, the phone itself is so small that it couldn't do significant damage, even if it were loaded with C4. The whole thing was so silly.
Bruce