Got a Swiss Army Knife through security (by accident)
Threw a Swiss Knife in my computer bag because I needed it at work.
Got on the plane yesterday, and while reaching in my bag for a pen, I felt the knife. It was in the front pocket of my bag. :rolleyes: |
At MAN in April, I forgot to take my 2 cans of energy drink out of my rollaboard.
The terminal was pretty deserted when I got there (understandable since it was lunchtime, the longhauls to Asia had departed, and my flight was leaving at 3ish), and there were 7 security personnel, and not one other passenger being screened. Waved through without a word...Should have brought some liquid explosives instead... @:-) |
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Originally Posted by UNITED959
(Post 8560470)
Threw a Swiss Knife in my computer bag because I needed it at work.
Got on the plane yesterday, and while reaching in my bag for a pen, I felt the knife. It was in the front pocket of my bag. :rolleyes: |
Originally Posted by PhlyingRPh
(Post 8560756)
I could tell you some stories about knives and the TSA at ORD T1 not catching them...
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Originally Posted by UNITED959
(Post 8560470)
Threw a Swiss Knife in my computer bag because I needed it at work.
Got on the plane yesterday, and while reaching in my bag for a pen, I felt the knife. It was in the front pocket of my bag. :rolleyes: You are one of only 98% of all people who take weapons onboard (many deliberately!) who make it past our beloved "security". :rolleyes: |
I usually have a small bottle of lotion in my laptop bag, which normally goes into checked luggage or my Kip-loc bag when traveling.
This summer, while at a client site, I stuck the bottle in my pocket after using it. When going through security, I was somehow selected for a pat-down (no SSSS, so who knows why). Interestingly, the TSA guy passed over the bottle in my pocket but did not follow up. I wonder if he thought that it was just a really odd shaped wallet or if he didn't care. Bottom line is, I think th at most all experienced travelers have similar experiences. Unfortunately, "our" perception of this security theater apparently isn't shared by others. |
I don't have enough fingers and toes to count the number of times (since the liquid stupidity has been in place) that I have cleared airport security checkpoints with a tube of sunscreen in my pocket.
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Don't they only catch 10% of the test explosives that they send through? Or at least on the ones they don't get tipped off on.
One of my first jobs, I knew someone who used to be an airport screener (late 70's, early 80's). She said that they'd always get heads up about when a test was coming. So, some things never change. |
Originally Posted by Ted S
(Post 8560766)
I've had a small pocket knife and matches. Friend tossed a handful of lighters but missed one.
I've taken matches through many times without issues, and always carry a small "swiss card". Found a small butane lighter in my carry-on last year - it had been there for at least 7-8 years, and an untold # of dom/intl flights. Even the toiletry items aren't checked... typically have a few hotel-size items - those don't even go into the quart bag. Unclear if they are slacking off, or figuring out that the "threat" isn't really worth the effort. Or just don't know. |
There I was completely wasting, out of work and down
all inside it's so frustrating as I drift from town to town feel as though nobody cares if I live or die so I might as well begin to put some action in my life Breaking the law, breaking the law Breaking the law, breaking the law Breaking the law, breaking the law Breaking the law, breaking the law So much for the golden future, I can't even start I've had every promise broken, there's anger in my heart you don't know what it's like, you don't have a clue if you did you'd find yourselves doing the same thing too Breaking the law, breaking the law Breaking the law, breaking the law Breaking the law, breaking the law Breaking the law, breaking the law You don't know what it's like Breaking the law, breaking the law Breaking the law, breaking the law Breaking the law, breaking the law Breaking the law, breaking the law Breaking the law Judas Priest |
I frequently go through TSA with at least one of the AA amenity kits distributed on international flights. I can't imagine the idea of digging through the kits and pulling out each and every little tube of stuff in them just for the TSA. I figure I'll just play dumb if they say something. But they never have.
Now, once I forgot to discard a water bottle, and they definitely saw it and forced me to surrender it. |
Spiff - Metalhead?
Originally Posted by Spiff
(Post 10081682)
There I was completely wasting, out of work and down
all inside it's so frustrating as I drift from town to town feel as though nobody cares if I live or die so I might as well begin to put some action in my life Breaking the law, breaking the law Breaking the law, breaking the law Breaking the law, breaking the law Breaking the law, breaking the law So much for the golden future, I can't even start I've had every promise broken, there's anger in my heart you don't know what it's like, you don't have a clue if you did you'd find yourselves doing the same thing too Breaking the law, breaking the law Breaking the law, breaking the law Breaking the law, breaking the law Breaking the law, breaking the law You don't know what it's like Breaking the law, breaking the law Breaking the law, breaking the law Breaking the law, breaking the law Breaking the law, breaking the law Breaking the law Judas Priest Tell me you're not a hardrockin' homebrewer!!!!!!!! I am not a homebrewer, but am a lover of the microbrews and of the Masters of Metal!!! Spiff rulz!:cool: |
Originally Posted by FLYINBELLS
(Post 10082060)
OK, Spiff, I looked up your profile.
Tell me you're not a hardrockin' homebrewer!!!!!!!! I am not a homebrewer, but am a lover of the microbrews and of the Masters of Metal!!! Spiff rulz!:cool: I'm also a homebrewer. Speciality: porters. |
Originally Posted by UNITED959
(Post 8560470)
Threw a Swiss Knife in my computer bag because I needed it at work.
Got on the plane yesterday, and while reaching in my bag for a pen, I felt the knife. It was in the front pocket of my bag. :rolleyes: Small pen-knives are not a threat to aircraft. That said, if you happen to take one with you--accidentally or otherwise--don't make it visible in the airport/aircraft or someone is liable to freak out. |
Originally Posted by Ted S
(Post 8560766)
I'm fairly sure anyone who travels much has brought something through without meaning too and got right by. I've had a small pocket knife and matches. Friend tossed a handful of lighters but missed one. And I've seen god knows how many people with a water bottle not sold in the airport at airports that few people use to transfer through.
I had cleared security 2x at IAD, 1x at BKW (with a "random" secondary for being first in line as well as subsequently "alarming" the ETD on my laptop--that's a long story told elsewhere in and of itself), 1x at DCA, and 2x at some West Coast airports (can't recall which off the top of my head). Only at BKW did I get any extra attention, and even then it was because I was first in line at security (got the "random" grope-down for being prompt :rolleyes:), and because the twit running the ETD didn't know what she was doing (she later accused me of breaking her ETD with my laptop). And even they didn't find the knife, which was right inside a pocket in my laptop bag! A friend of mine cleared security several times with a folding 5" knife as well ... he'd forgotten it was there, and underwent secondaries & gate screenings several times (at EWR, AHN, and MEM, IIRC) and cleared security at least four times total. They never found that knife. |
We went through security and my fiance had forgotten to check his swiss army knife. They stopped him and said "you have a corkscrew in your bag" - notice not knife - corkscrew. Much to his dismay(it was a gift) they pulled the offending corkscrew out of his bag and we were allowed to continue on. I guess they worry about the security of unopened wine bottles on the plane...?
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Originally Posted by RockoHorse
(Post 10083814)
We went through security and my fiance had forgotten to check his swiss army knife. They stopped him and said "you have a corkscrew in your bag" - notice not knife - corkscrew. Much to his dismay(it was a gift) they pulled the offending corkscrew out of his bag and we were allowed to continue on. I guess they worry about the security of unopened wine bottles on the plane...?
http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtrav...ted-items.shtm |
I have done this several times (accidentally as well).
TSA screening is all for show. |
You aren't the only one....
Its surprising how much they probably would not catch. |
Add yourself to the watch list.... :rolleyes:
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