TSA/PreCheck - Odd TSA agent behavior
Mar 7, 2013 | 3:12 pm
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Usually I do lock stuff shut; I've always put a lock on my carryon rollaboard. When I fly at the end of the month, I'm tying up the zippers of my carryon personal item to the handle of the purse/tote. Mainly just to drive TSA nuts as much to protect my stuff and to buy me enough time to get it back in my line of sight. And I've always stowed everything before putting it on the belt, although until about a year or two ago I thought I was mostly safeguarding myself from other pax. I'll keep a pair of baby nail clippers in an unlocked pocket.
I'd never thought about zipties until this forum. I've thought of a thousand ways to create a flexi-cuffed mess of my carryons.
I'd never thought about zipties until this forum. I've thought of a thousand ways to create a flexi-cuffed mess of my carryons.
The TSO told me they could be used as 'restraints'. Same airport that a few months later confiscated a length of surgical tubing that I was carrying to do PT rehab exercises on my shoulder, for the same reason.
For quite some time after that, I cut my zip-ties in half; they still served the purpose as cheap luggage locks, but they were clearly too short to restrain anything more than a Barbie doll or a chihuahua.
Fortunately, I never got my duct tape confiscated for the same reason. I always have a couple yards wrapped around a small piece of cardboard. I've used it in all sorts of odd situations, including taping up a piece of luggage when the zip burst, but a zealous TSO could probably point out that duct tape is used all the time in movies to restrain people...
Mar 8, 2013 | 7:44 am
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Just once, I got my ordinary zipties (spares for the return trip) confiscated during a bag check.
The TSO told me they could be used as 'restraints'. Same airport that a few months later confiscated a length of surgical tubing that I was carrying to do PT rehab exercises on my shoulder, for the same reason.
For quite some time after that, I cut my zip-ties in half; they still served the purpose as cheap luggage locks, but they were clearly too short to restrain anything more than a Barbie doll or a chihuahua.
Fortunately, I never got my duct tape confiscated for the same reason. I always have a couple yards wrapped around a small piece of cardboard. I've used it in all sorts of odd situations, including taping up a piece of luggage when the zip burst, but a zealous TSO could probably point out that duct tape is used all the time in movies to restrain people...
The TSO told me they could be used as 'restraints'. Same airport that a few months later confiscated a length of surgical tubing that I was carrying to do PT rehab exercises on my shoulder, for the same reason.
For quite some time after that, I cut my zip-ties in half; they still served the purpose as cheap luggage locks, but they were clearly too short to restrain anything more than a Barbie doll or a chihuahua.
Fortunately, I never got my duct tape confiscated for the same reason. I always have a couple yards wrapped around a small piece of cardboard. I've used it in all sorts of odd situations, including taping up a piece of luggage when the zip burst, but a zealous TSO could probably point out that duct tape is used all the time in movies to restrain people...
If handcuffs are fine.....
Mar 8, 2013 | 8:11 am
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Just once, I got my ordinary zipties (spares for the return trip) confiscated during a bag check.
The TSO told me they could be used as 'restraints'. Same airport that a few months later confiscated a length of surgical tubing that I was carrying to do PT rehab exercises on my shoulder, for the same reason.
For quite some time after that, I cut my zip-ties in half; they still served the purpose as cheap luggage locks, but they were clearly too short to restrain anything more than a Barbie doll or a chihuahua.
Fortunately, I never got my duct tape confiscated for the same reason. I always have a couple yards wrapped around a small piece of cardboard. I've used it in all sorts of odd situations, including taping up a piece of luggage when the zip burst, but a zealous TSO could probably point out that duct tape is used all the time in movies to restrain people...
The TSO told me they could be used as 'restraints'. Same airport that a few months later confiscated a length of surgical tubing that I was carrying to do PT rehab exercises on my shoulder, for the same reason.
For quite some time after that, I cut my zip-ties in half; they still served the purpose as cheap luggage locks, but they were clearly too short to restrain anything more than a Barbie doll or a chihuahua.
Fortunately, I never got my duct tape confiscated for the same reason. I always have a couple yards wrapped around a small piece of cardboard. I've used it in all sorts of odd situations, including taping up a piece of luggage when the zip burst, but a zealous TSO could probably point out that duct tape is used all the time in movies to restrain people...
Mar 8, 2013 | 8:24 am
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Both incidents happened at the same airport within a few months of each other, which led me to believe that someone there had some sort of special focus on 'restraints', although I never saw anyone's belt or shoelaces get surrendered.