Handmade items looking suspicious?
Sep 26, 2015 | 5:02 pm
#1
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Handmade items looking suspicious?
I would like to make a small memory foam lumbar support pillow for a long haul flight, but my boyfriend thinks that it will look like I'm smuggling drugs and that we will be caught up in security. I guess it might look a bit messy on an X-ray, and the foam inside is small bits of foam, but would that look weird and cause a problem?
I previously repaired a broken suitcase with lots of masking tape, and my boyfriend told me to buy a new one for the same reason, looking dodgy...
Thanks to anyone who has any insight!!
I previously repaired a broken suitcase with lots of masking tape, and my boyfriend told me to buy a new one for the same reason, looking dodgy...
Thanks to anyone who has any insight!!
Sep 27, 2015 | 1:36 pm
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More seriously I mean this in the best possible way
If you are traveling abroad, why ask for trouble? I actually don't think the pillow would be much of a problem, as people have all kinds of weird things to help their comfort on the airplane, but you repair a broken suitcase with masking tape for an international trip seems like penny wise and pound foolish. What if it breaks on the trip you have to buy a new one anyway?
That said, I've seen a lot of memory foam pillows like you just described. I think if you got the chunks of memory foam and so did up with a nice bag, I don't think anyone would pay attention to it.
That said, I've seen a lot of memory foam pillows like you just described. I think if you got the chunks of memory foam and so did up with a nice bag, I don't think anyone would pay attention to it.
Sep 27, 2015 | 1:42 pm
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Ha! Yes the broken suitcase was replaced before my last transatlantic flight! Don't worry! I'd been flying with it within Europe without realising the plastic inner lining had shattered. What I tried to do was just patch that up. The outer shell of the case was still sound 
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Thanks for your reply though, my sewing work isn't amazing but I think the pillow will do the job.
. Thanks for your reply though, my sewing work isn't amazing but I think the pillow will do the job.
Sep 29, 2015 | 5:44 am
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An x ray image doesn't just depend on shape, but also material density. Unless your foam is made up of actual drugs I wouldn't worry.
And if they do get suspicious all they have to do is squeeze it. I can't think of any drug that feels like memory foam.
And if they do get suspicious all they have to do is squeeze it. I can't think of any drug that feels like memory foam.