CHP seems to take buzzing sounds seriously.

http://forums.darklordpotter.net/showthread.php?t=15932

APRIL 19--A California Highway Patrol office was briefly evacuated earlier this month when investigators became concerned that an arrestee might have been carrying a concealed explosive device.

You have got to be kidding me. This has to be one of nuttiest more paranoid posts I think I've read here.

Next time, take the family car and leave the rest of us alone.

My old battery operated tooth brush would buzz all the time. If I heard buzzing I'd just think it was a toiletry item.

The pax would only need to demonstrate to the FA's comfort. If the FA likes a verbal, then verbal is fine. Another passenger should never be required to show me anything in their bag.

In that case, it's not a privacy violation you need to worry about.

They gave you miles for that??!! _ they should have told you to get off the plane for interfering with a FA the second time around!!

Once is ok let them do their job BUT a second time and get the Capt. involved you must be kidding!!

You know living comes with a risk it is called life but being paranoid will probably kill you even faster - that is if a fellow passenger who you insisted on getting strip searched doesn't get you first.

Yes, I think over-reacting is just that.

Vibrating personal hygiene related implements -- battery-powered vibrating shavers, hair clippers, tooth-cleaning devices -- are no big deal.

Communication devices with a steady vibration -- some do exist -- are no big deal.

Vibrating toys -- not just the sexual sort -- are no big deal.

While the TSA is a big flop in so many ways, I don't see any good reason to get routinely worried about the above just because it is in a bag of a passenger.

UA over-reacted too if they actually give you 9k miles for over-reacting.

Airlines rewarding over-reactions isn't a good thing.

Narrator: Was it ticking?
Airport Security Officer: Actually throwers don't worry about ticking 'cause modern bombs don't tick.
Narrator: Sorry, throwers?
Airport Security Officer: Baggage handlers. But, when a suitcase vibrates, then the throwers gotta call the police.
Narrator: My suitcase was vibrating?
Airport Security Officer: Nine times out of ten it's an electric razor, but every once in a while...
[whispering]
Airport Security Officer: it's a dildo. Of course it's company policy never to, imply ownership in the event of a dildo... always use the indefinite article a dildo, never your dildo.
Narrator: I don't own...

I never turn off my mobiles phones (I now have three, unfortunately). I also occasionally forget to turn off the darn things. Sometimes, they go off during taxiing and it causes quite a stir when people hear "Deutschland Uber Alles" blaring out at a steadily increasing volume and they are trying to figure out where the noise is coming from. If there is an FA around complaining, I join in and feign anger at how inconsiderate someone could be to leave a phone on and not admit it is theirs. I would not be happy if someone made a big deal about a ringing phone in a stowed bag. I advise anyone who wants to make a big deal about this sort of thing to consider that a mobile phone, electric shaver or toothbrush left on is just not a threat. If it's something more sinister, you are probably not going to get off in one piece anyway, so why worry about it.

Fight club?

This actually makes sense. It provides a very clear indication that the device is armed and counting down to detonation. On something as fancy and potentially dangerous as a nuke I would certainly put something like that. (Only on weapons meant to be emplaced, though. With something like an aircraft bomb there's little reason--nobody would be in a position to see it if something did go wrong.)

Is that really one of your ringtones?

You like Haydn's music? I didn't pin you for being a fan of symphonies and string quartets.

Indeed.

not to Godwin the thread, but are you sure you don't work for TSA or DHS?

I bet the pilot who's phone started ringing during the takeoff roll when there was a Fed on the jumpseat wished he had his phone set to vibrate.

Just for that I'm going to put the Geico boss's rigntone on my BlackBerry; ringity-ding-ding-dingy-dong.