Security-approved corkscrew?
Jul 12, 2002 | 2:19 pm
#2
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Northside in tha house
Posts: 1,286
Corkscrews are expressly prohibited:
http://www.tsa.gov/workingwithtsa/ai..._prohibit.shtm
You might call the TSA hazardous materials info center if you want to drill into it more.
http://www.tsa.gov/workingwithtsa/ai..._prohibit.shtm
You might call the TSA hazardous materials info center if you want to drill into it more.
Jul 12, 2002 | 2:42 pm
#4
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Tejas, I just can't get away from the place
Programs: Exxon Mobil Supertanker, WN Double Peanut, Accor Golden Cockroach
Posts: 8,350
I had accidentially left one of those corkscrews that has two tines on it in my computer bag. The security screener saw it on the x-ray (which means countless others didn't see it), pulled it out and asked me what it was. After I explained that it was a corkscrew and described how it worked, she shrugged her shoulders and put it back in the bag.
Needless to say, it's in my check-in bag, now.
Needless to say, it's in my check-in bag, now.
Jul 12, 2002 | 8:45 pm
#5
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Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Worcester, MA, BOS, PVD, BDL, MHT, ??ORH??
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Posts: 11,928
Gettting ready to leave tomorrow, I was just cleaning out a bag tonight that I carried on from BOS EWR JFK AMS FRA EWR BOS in mid June then late June from BOS DTW KIX TPE KIX DTW BOS and found a plastic corkscrew in one of the inner pouches of the bag. The plastic cover of the corkscrew slides through an opening at the top of the screw.
I didn't mean to do it, but no one stopped me. Maybe because it was plastic, it didn't show.
From the old days, I used to place corkscrews in all my bags because I hated being caught somehwere around the world without one. Will have to check all my bags.
I didn't mean to do it, but no one stopped me. Maybe because it was plastic, it didn't show.
From the old days, I used to place corkscrews in all my bags because I hated being caught somehwere around the world without one. Will have to check all my bags.