Soap
May 26, 2008 | 4:57 pm
#1
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I've been carrying small bars of soap in my carry-on for years. A security officer in Brisbane the other day decided it was a gel and thus needed to go in my liquids baggy and get re-xrayed.
I didn't have the heart to tell him there was a second bar of soap in my bag that he missed
The same officer decided my asthma inhaler had to go into it's own baggy? I have no idea what logic/(un)thinking is behind that.
I didn't have the heart to tell him there was a second bar of soap in my bag that he missed
The same officer decided my asthma inhaler had to go into it's own baggy? I have no idea what logic/(un)thinking is behind that.
May 27, 2008 | 3:19 am
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If it makes you feel better, I was once told by a screener in Helsinki that aviation insecticide (the spray they use to fumigate the cabin before landing) was not permitted on board aircraft. I showed him the label which said "ONLY FOR USE ON BOARD AIRCRAFT". He was very confused.
May 28, 2008 | 9:42 am
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Hahaha... Those small hotel soaps!
Last year at ZRH (Zürich) I was selected for Bag Check bcs the x-ray showed that my bag was full of "mini cheese".
Last year at ZRH (Zürich) I was selected for Bag Check bcs the x-ray showed that my bag was full of "mini cheese".
May 28, 2008 | 9:54 am
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I once had a screener at BWI B C/P advise me that it was illegal for me to have a CAT-5 cable in the bottom outer pocket of my carry-on roller while carrying a bar of Ivory soap in the top outer pocket of the same roller. She said it looked like explosives to her and she could have me fined.
I laughed and walked away...
I laughed and walked away...
May 28, 2008 | 10:40 am
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I've had a screener at SEA say there was something organic inside my bag... and she pulled out my bar of soap. There was nothing but clothes around my bar of soap too....
May 28, 2008 | 7:54 pm
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I saw this at LGW a few years ago; while putting my shoes back on, etc, the elderly lady behind me in the security line got in trouble for having a bar of soap without a baggie. The poor dear was a bit frail and hard of hearing, and kept trying to make sense of "soap=liquid=danger", but it was confiscated anyway. 
She walked away embarrassed that she'd done something illegal but still not sure what it was. 
She walked away embarrassed that she'd done something illegal but still not sure what it was.
May 28, 2008 | 8:07 pm
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Once I forgot about a plum in the bottom of my day bag and it got pretty "organic" by the time I found it
