What was the weirdest thing you took aboard as a carry-on?
Apr 29, 2013, 11:45 am
#76
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Miami, Nice
Programs: Marriott Titanium, AA Concierge Key, Delta, United, Emorates, and others
Posts: 4,694
Mine is not even close to the standards being set in this thread but it is all I have:
I carried four large cheesecakes from Junior's from JFK to BAH in order to feed the cravings of my girlfriends family. They devoured them all in a few hours. Luckily the flight crew JFK-FRA took pity on my plight and stored them in one of their cool locations, and their colleagues in the FRA-BAH leg did so also. Thank you LH!
I carried four large cheesecakes from Junior's from JFK to BAH in order to feed the cravings of my girlfriends family. They devoured them all in a few hours. Luckily the flight crew JFK-FRA took pity on my plight and stored them in one of their cool locations, and their colleagues in the FRA-BAH leg did so also. Thank you LH!
Apr 29, 2013, 11:53 am
#77
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Luxembourg
Programs: KLM/AF Platinum for life, IHG Platinum, Accor Platinum
Posts: 1,026
Thanksgiving dinner. Pre-TSA of course. PHL-ORD on Thanksgiving day when my sister was an FA for AA and she was on call. I drove GSP-PHL only to find out that I was going to ORD in the morning. Turkey, stuffing, rolls, green bean casserole. The works. Was funny watching the Turkey go through the x-ray.
Apr 29, 2013, 11:56 am
#78
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: TLV
Programs: UA Platinum, Avis Chairman, Marriott Gold, Hilton Gold, GA Pilot
Posts: 3,225
Mine is not even close to the standards being set in this thread but it is all I have:
I carried four large cheesecakes from Junior's from JFK to BAH in order to feed the cravings of my girlfriends family. They devoured them all in a few hours. Luckily the flight crew JFK-FRA took pity on my plight and stored them in one of their cool locations, and their colleagues in the FRA-BAH leg did so also. Thank you LH!
I carried four large cheesecakes from Junior's from JFK to BAH in order to feed the cravings of my girlfriends family. They devoured them all in a few hours. Luckily the flight crew JFK-FRA took pity on my plight and stored them in one of their cool locations, and their colleagues in the FRA-BAH leg did so also. Thank you LH!
Apr 29, 2013, 12:29 pm
#79
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Port Moody, BC
Posts: 484
A disk pack from Toronto to Vancouver...it was state of the art at the time, but fortunately it was long enough ago that getting it through airport security without having them remove the cover and putting fingers on the platters was not a problem.
Apr 29, 2013, 1:48 pm
#80
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: PHL / NYC / PSA-BLQ
Programs: AA PPRO, Marriott/Hilton Gold, AMX-Plat, Global Entry
Posts: 3,109
in 2000 my wife and I were in Milan on the last Sunday of the month and flying out the next AM. We went to the flea market in Naviglio (it only happens on the last Sunday) and my wife spotted a 1920's crystal chandelier and we were remodeling a pied-a-terre we'd bought in NYC. She loved it.
I'm thinking logistics, etc so we go to lunch and I am getting the treatment. I try and tempt her with something valuable and easy to carry (19th century Russian icon) but no go. She says, let's go back and you point out a flaw so then I can walk away (she's being very nice). Problem is, I go back and there's not a flaw to be found.
The vendor thinks the price is the issue and drops it from about $300 to $225 or so. We buy it, take it back to the hotel, take pictures of it, call the hotel engineer to borrow tools, disassemble it (my wife wraps all the Bohemian crystal in toilet paper) and pack it into my wife's roll-a-board. Security did a double take when it went through the x-ray.
It's in our bedroom (we moved it with us when we bought a bigger place) and I always think about how we found it when I look up in bed.
I'm thinking logistics, etc so we go to lunch and I am getting the treatment. I try and tempt her with something valuable and easy to carry (19th century Russian icon) but no go. She says, let's go back and you point out a flaw so then I can walk away (she's being very nice). Problem is, I go back and there's not a flaw to be found.
The vendor thinks the price is the issue and drops it from about $300 to $225 or so. We buy it, take it back to the hotel, take pictures of it, call the hotel engineer to borrow tools, disassemble it (my wife wraps all the Bohemian crystal in toilet paper) and pack it into my wife's roll-a-board. Security did a double take when it went through the x-ray.
It's in our bedroom (we moved it with us when we bought a bigger place) and I always think about how we found it when I look up in bed.
Apr 29, 2013, 4:04 pm
#81
Join Date: Jul 2004
Programs: CO Plat, *A Gold (all peacefully retired)
Posts: 623
Had to bring a $30k server part to Jakarta for a client, asap. The Indonesian customs guys were more interested in the foam peanuts inside the case, and ignored the hardware. They were holding the foam peanuts up to the light to check for I don't know what.
On the way home, I packed a metal collapsing baton that was army surplus. Some interesting things you find in the malls there.
On the way home, I packed a metal collapsing baton that was army surplus. Some interesting things you find in the malls there.
Apr 29, 2013, 7:23 pm
#82
Original Poster
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Virginia City Highlands
Programs: Nothing anymore after 20 years
Posts: 6,900
I think I have to carry that next time...
Apr 29, 2013, 11:44 pm
#84
Join Date: Sep 2012
Posts: 20
pre 9/11
me! I was going to a historical recreation event and wore my belly dance costume covered byt a large faux fur lined cape. It was too heavy to check. the flight was only 35 minutes and I fugured I would be ready to dance when i arrived.
I forgot about the metal detecor...... BEEP! Miss can you remove any metal.
me-um no. (then I opened the cape to show a costume completely covered in tiny bells and coins.)
he says- you are going to arizona for the medieval thing aren't you? So do YOU have any knives or swords under there?
me-no
he says- go over there to be patted down- look for the line of guys in funny clothes with swords to check.
post 9/11
jar of POWDERED peanut butter that everyone had to check
3 insulated lunch sacks of cheese/veggis/fruit (for gramma)
gym bag of frozen venison (from gramma)
small suitcase filled with sticks (i make custom wands and gramma has wood I can't get in california)
box of quartz crystals freshly mined from OK. They had to check Each one!
me! I was going to a historical recreation event and wore my belly dance costume covered byt a large faux fur lined cape. It was too heavy to check. the flight was only 35 minutes and I fugured I would be ready to dance when i arrived.
I forgot about the metal detecor...... BEEP! Miss can you remove any metal.
me-um no. (then I opened the cape to show a costume completely covered in tiny bells and coins.)
he says- you are going to arizona for the medieval thing aren't you? So do YOU have any knives or swords under there?
me-no
he says- go over there to be patted down- look for the line of guys in funny clothes with swords to check.
post 9/11
jar of POWDERED peanut butter that everyone had to check
3 insulated lunch sacks of cheese/veggis/fruit (for gramma)
gym bag of frozen venison (from gramma)
small suitcase filled with sticks (i make custom wands and gramma has wood I can't get in california)
box of quartz crystals freshly mined from OK. They had to check Each one!
Apr 30, 2013, 1:34 am
#88
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: BRS
Posts: 336
I took a cobalt-lead glass paperweight for a retiring colleague. Looked perfectly normal in real life, but like a perfect black sphere on the scanner. The scanners in Bristol didn't blink, but they made me unpack it in AMS.
and they where heavy!!