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Old Feb 4, 2007 | 5:40 pm
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Originally Posted by LostInAmerica
When I flew home from Vienna last year with some lead crystal, TSA insisted on removing it from the box and verifying the contents when I went through security after customs.

Their explanation was that the lead crystal just shows as a black shape on the X-ray.
Everytime I take crystal as carry-on it is taken out of the box and inspected after x-ray. No exception.
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