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Old Dec 13, 2006 | 9:15 pm
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omascreener
 
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Bellevue,Ne,USA
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Originally Posted by muddy
I told the TSA agent that confiscated my $70 bottle of cologne to take it home to her husband, but she politely said they weren't allowed and it must be thrown away.

However, several times Ive seen those gray bins with items seeemingly stacked just a little too neatly and cleanly at the other side of checkpoints. I mean, why wouldnt they just be lobbing the junk into trash cans, if it were to be thrown away?

Are they throwing these things away or taking them home?

Why wouldn't they be giving it to charity anyway? Too dangerous for airplane = too dangerous for the needy?
Don't know about other airports but at the one I work at we've been threatened with our jobs for even taking a bottle of water now the janitorial staff on the other hand well thats a different story.
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