Can you lock your carry on?
 

I will be traveling at Christmas with some gifts including 2 rolex watches and their boxes, 2 or possibly 3 iPads and other electronics including my dslr and several expensive lenses. I seem to lose sight of my carry on luggage for some time as it goes thru screening, especially should I be selected to get additional screening. It would take just a moment for someone to lift a valuable or two out of my bag.

I have never noticed it done, or addressed here or elsewhere, so can someone tell me: are you allowed to lock your carry ons as they go thru screening?

I have been putting a padlock on my hand carry computer bag for a while, when I go through the TSA security process. If the TSA want to nose through my bag they have to wait until a remove the padlock right in front of them, and then nose through it in front of me. This approach of padlocking my bag provides me some protection against theft by the TSA or other passengers, when my bag is out of my view. I fail to see you the TSA can stop anyone locking their carryon if they want to.

I couldn't find anything saying I could or couldn't, I am glad to hear from someone who has actually done it.

Did someone say Rolex?
 

Just stay away from the Thieving Slick Agents at Norfolk International airport.

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I've gotten in the habit of locking my rollerboard every time I go through a checkpoint. There is nothing that a screening clerk needs to be searching for, until I am able to view my property.

You can lock it, though if you are carrying that much stuff you may be asked to explain why, so if you have receipts or whatever it may help. Probably not an issue and they won't care, but there have been some instances where they nose into things having nothing to do with aircraft safety.

Do you mean for TSA or at immigration at the country I am going to? Can't imagine that TSA has the right to ask for receipts for Christmas gifts I am transporting? right????? :eek:

There is NO WAY that I'd ever be getting into a discussion with any TSA agent, of the why's and wherefores of my personal property that is cleared as not WEI. I find the notion of showing receipts for these sorts of items, as beyond ludicrous. If subjected to something like this, you'd likely be seeing me making the evening news, possibly as the subject of an arrest for not being a TSO's surrender monkey. :td:

OP: Lock your bag well, avoid NoS where you get even further separated, and ask for private screening if pulled for more extensive scrutiny of you and your bags.

If travelling abroad, Customs of your destination country is a completely separate issue, and they do have the right to ask for additional information (or in lieu of, make assumptions), but that's a tax/duties issue, not a security one.

You can lock your bag. And no TSA employee will ask why you have those items. Many people carry multiple, expensive electronic devices on them, usually work related.

However, and this is possible, if you carry a few ipads and cameras in one bag it will most likely spores cluttered on the x-ray screen. The bag will most likely have to be checked and then all of the items removed and rerun through the x-ray.

If you can, device the items into 2 locked carry-on bags.

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Not to be argumentative, but nobody should have asked a woman being screened about checks that she was carrying. But, they did.

This poses an interesting question. When TSA calls for a bag check the agents get their panties in a bunch if have the audacity to lay a finger on your bag. They always make a huge deal out if it, "DON'T TOUCH THE BAG, SIR!"

So what happens if the keys to unlock the bag are in an unlocked small pocket of that same bag?

TSAhole: "Please unlock the bag."
Traveler: Reaches for zipper on small pouch where keys are stored.
TSAhole: "I SAID DON'T TOUCH THE BAG!"
Traveler: "But the keys are inside."

Rinse and repeat.

What a ridiculous policy. My (cleared) person can't touch my own bag while you screen it? What am I, Criss Angel? Able to make contraband disappear with a wave of my hand? Love or hate the Israelis, they understand security and have no problem with you helping them explore your bag. Just goes to show you that TSA is all about rules, power and authority - not security.

Little trick I have tried to make theft a little more difficult.
1. lock your carryon
2. Put a laptop lock cable on your laptop and loop it around the handle on your carryon.
Now you have secured your carryon, you can put the laptop all by itself in the tray, and your carryon follows merrily along behind it. Anyone trying to grab the laptop will have to lug the carrryon along with it.

Makes sense to me. You've been cleared and your bag hasn't. So if you touch your bag, you can transfer an uncleared item from it to you.

They rummaged through somebody's checkbook in August, determined she was stealing money from her husband and notified law enforcement officers. The Philadelphia police called her husband because the TSA thought she embezzled the checks while they detained her.

In March of last year they detained Steve Bierfeldt because he had a large amount of cash on him (4,700), the proceeds from selling political merchandise at a rally.

If you get some nutcase who believes you don't have a right to have the watches, etc, they may refer you to the Police, and you may be detained having to explain why you are carrying Christmas gifts with you.

It probably won't happen, but I'm sure Kathy Parker and Steve Bierfeldt thought they would not have any problems either.