They let me through airport security with a knife.

And it wasn't that they didn't know about it. I had a butter knife in my backpack that I had long forgotten about and was under the laptop compartment in my backpack. I couldn't see it, and I ended up having to dump the contents of my backpack. Well, we finally find it, the agent takes it out, I say "Keep it," and she hands it back to me and says "Oh, it's ok, it's not serrated." What the fuck?

Yeah, it's a butter knife, incapable of breaking the skin on a baby's wrist, but still!

I ended up leaving it at the airport chilli's to avoid future hassle.

10/2/2011 5:20:05 PM

So they're idiots for letting you through with something that they (using common sense) say isn't really a weapon??

You're the one who left it in your bag, and the agent recognized that wasn't dangerous.... sounds to me like you got a smart agent who honestly looks for stuff that could be harmful on an airplane.

Do you also call people stupid who don't turn their cell phone off or leave their headphones in the Take-off??

10/2/2011 5:24:02 PM

in general they're idiots but this isn't why

10/2/2011 5:26:25 PM

I forgot I had a swiss army knife in my purse once. It was surround by tampons and I forgot about it. It was sentimental so I didn't want to have to throw it away. Luckily, after a few runs through the x-ray machine and multiple people looking at the screen, they let it pass through and never physically searched by purse.

10/2/2011 5:29:32 PM

Who's to say I couldn't sharpen the knife? Her reasoning for giving back to me is because it's not "serrated." Her words, not mine. You do realize that we had a few airplanes hijacked with box cutters and here they are allowing people with butter knives on board?

And yeah, people who don't turn their cell phone off during take-off are stupid. And their refusal to put it in airplane mode is even more idiotic.

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-06-09/news/30073637_1_signal-interference-sensors-altitude

10/2/2011 5:30:34 PM

you could just as easily pick up a butter knife at any of the airport restaurants in the terminal

10/2/2011 5:36:33 PM

agreed.

i've heard they hijack planes with guns, so they shouldn't let rubber bands and paper clips through either.

10/2/2011 5:36:35 PM

merbig doesn't know the danger difference between a box cutter and a butter knife. I think we know who the real idiot is.

10/2/2011 6:08:35 PM

They let me through with a knife before- they didn't even "notice" it (at least, they never took it out of my purse). Forgot it was there- and this was no butter knife. Basically one of these:



[Edited on October 2, 2011 at 6:16 PM. Reason : the+y=they]

10/2/2011 6:10:35 PM

^^

10/2/2011 6:15:32 PM

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"TSA are idiots"

not new, but I agree.

10/2/2011 6:36:32 PM

I once went through with an X-acto razor in my backpack. I believe it rolled off my desk and fell in my open backpack when I was at home. Crammed some books/clothes in went to the airport, went through security, and surprised the hell out of myself when I was digging around in the bottom of the bag trying to find something.

10/2/2011 7:05:00 PM

I'm angry at the TSA agent for not starting a game of knifey-spoony with you.

10/2/2011 7:19:33 PM

Me too! I've never played that game!

10/2/2011 7:20:20 PM

itt, we find out merbig works for the TSA

10/2/2011 7:21:33 PM

I'll backtrack you to buttrape you.

10/2/2011 7:24:22 PM

I've taken

Large cans of shaving cream
Axe deoderant
Large toothpaste
Large body was

ord, lax and lga are the only airports that have ever made me follow the rules about brining liquids and aerosols through.

I do however, get raped everytime i wear a jacket or hoodie into security though.

10/2/2011 11:37:12 PM

Did the at least call you a douchebag because of the Axe?

10/2/2011 11:40:08 PM

They let me thru w/ a big bottle of cologne. Would have sucked if they took that. I think he felt sorry for me.

10/3/2011 12:10:42 AM

One time I made it through with a bottle of water. I always try, because its my cost of like 10 cents a bottle, but once you get through its almost 3$ a bottle. So even if i loose it at the gate each time, as long as I make it through every few times i'm banking.

10/3/2011 7:35:45 AM

Who the fuck travels with a butter knife??

10/3/2011 7:43:45 AM

merbig

10/3/2011 7:51:04 AM

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"One time I made it through with a bottle of water. I always try, because its my cost of like 10 cents a bottle, but once you get through its almost 3$ a bottle. So even if i loose it at the gate each time, as long as I make it through every few times i'm banking. "

lol I do this too, but it's usually because I forget the water is in my bag.

10/3/2011 8:46:36 AM

Sorry, but cell phones don't inherently affect airplane sensors any more than the tons of electromagnetic energy and radio waves already going through the air. The equipment is heavily shielded because the plane is 35k feet closer to the sun -- less atmosphere and more solar radiation, electromagnetic waves, etc.

The jury's out on whether USING the phone does anything, but only b/c the companies don't want to spend the money on the tests when they could use that money to build better aircraft.



But yea, TSA are idiots. Once you're on board they give you knives & forks to eat with... You could bash someone over the head with a laptop. You could fashion pretty much anything into a weapon. It's retarded, a waste of time and resources, but OH EM GEE it keeps us safe from da ebull tewowists... Give me a break.

10/3/2011 1:35:11 PM

^

10/3/2011 1:41:51 PM

They've let me through with a bottle of lighter fluid...

10/3/2011 1:58:40 PM

I was going to post a joke about them letting me through with c-4 and det cord and a couple of claymores and all that sort of stuff and then decided I'd rather stay off the watch list.

So I didn't post it. I posted this that basically DETAILS THE SAME SHIT OMFG I'LL NEVER BE ALLOWED TO FLY AGAIN

10/3/2011 2:02:22 PM

I flew with one of these in my carry on bag once:



I completely forgot it was in the bag and didn't even mean to bring it. I discovered it after I got back from my trip (so it was undetected twice). On the other hand the last time I flew I had a battery powered lantern in my carry on bag and it was flagged by the X ray inspector. I had to dump everything out of the bag and show them the lantern...which they then put through the X ray machine again, by itself.

[Edited on October 3, 2011 at 2:31 PM. Reason : pic]

10/3/2011 2:30:26 PM

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"But yea, TSA are idiots. Once you're on board they give you knives & forks to eat with... You could bash someone over the head with a laptop. You could fashion pretty much anything into a weapon. It's retarded, a waste of time and resources, but OH EM GEE it keeps us safe from da ebull tewowists... Give me a break."

hahaha there are some cynical bastards on this site. let me know when someone hijacks an airplane with a plastic fork and/or a laptop


so you contend that screening for weapons and explosives is a waste of time and resources? whats your solution?

10/3/2011 2:46:41 PM

I may or may not have flown with a(n) item(s) forbidden on aircraft within the U.S. This may or may not have been due to forgetfulness and/or inadequate airport security.

10/3/2011 2:49:31 PM

Meanwhile, I have had an eyeglass screwdriver confiscated. Yes, it could hurt someone if you stab them in the eye with it, but so could a pen.

10/3/2011 4:40:26 PM

i haven't had trouble smuggling lighters through them.

10/3/2011 4:53:19 PM

If you really want to kill a bunch of people... in the line at airport security would be a good place. Here's what I would do. Load up a laptop case or something similar with explosives, get in line, leave it sitting next to one of the little rope stanchions, go through security, detonate bomb killing a whole bunch of folks waiting to get screened for weapons. Just as simple, pop out of your car and gun down a shitload of people at the ticket counter.

Airport security is a joke. The shoe bomber, the underwear bomber... not really threats. An honest to god well planned attempt to hijack a plane today will probably be successful now just like it would have been 20 years ago. The TSA is not really for security, it's to provide the illusion of security and continue the total pacification of the populace and indoctrination of a police state mentality.

Does anybody with a functional brain in their head think that they're doing anything to make flying safer? Does groping every grandmother who's fake hip sets off the metal detectors do anything to make us safer? Are people aware of how many of their own tests that TSA has failed in major airports across the country? Their record is abysmal and it's infuriating to know that thanks to the sheeple who live here it's probably an agency that will never go away and will eventually expand to buses, trains, and any other form of public conveyance they can get their hooks into.

10/3/2011 5:01:41 PM

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"in general they're idiots but this isn't why"

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"in general they're idiots but this isn't why"

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"in general they're idiots but this isn't why"

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"in general they're idiots but this isn't why"

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"in general they're idiots but this isn't why"

10/3/2011 5:09:47 PM

^^ starting a pool to see how long it takes for homeboy to get pwnt by the patriot act.

10/3/2011 5:17:54 PM

Meh, whatever. It's nothing different than has been said by many, many other people. Anytime you create a cluster of people there's the opportunity for danger, especially if it's already something that criminals would target.

Anytime there's a line or a known gathering of people, there's the potential for somebody to kill a bunch of folks. Not a lot you can do to stop a truly dedicated murderer. Just look at all the suicide bombers who blow themselves up in markets. Fortunately we don't have a large population of people willing to do that kind of thing. Threats of jail time aren't a deterrent for someone with no regard for their own life.

[Edited on October 3, 2011 at 5:29 PM. Reason : Besides, I'm probably on all kind of watch lists already becaue of things I've read.]

10/3/2011 5:27:44 PM

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"And yeah, people who don't turn their cell phone off during take-off are stupid. And their refusal to put it in airplane mode is even more idiotic. http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-06-09/news/30073637_1_signal-interference-sensors-altitude"

HAHAHAHA... wow... you're such an idiot!! DID you even read that or have any idea what frequencies aircraft FMS receives on!?!? The cell phone rule is for europe where they have VHF Immune ILS approaches. (They cut all the ILS frequencies in half so they can have more without them interfering) And it's for OLD cell phones.. like the motorola bag phone from 1990 or the one Zak Morris on Saved by the Bell.

I'm going to also assume that you believed the Facebook was going to start charging unless you reposted that status...

[Edited on October 3, 2011 at 8:41 PM. Reason : forgot the quote box]

10/3/2011 8:38:51 PM

over the holidays, the TSA seized hundreds of snow globes from travelers. The snow globes are being kept in the State Surplus warehouse, where their owners can pick them up.



good work, TSA

1/3/2012 11:38:57 AM

THEY COULD BE TERRORIST SNOW GLOBES

1/3/2012 11:41:51 AM

Had scissors in my backpack once (forgot they were in there) and TSA never said anything. Instead, they confiscated my aftershave

1/3/2012 11:43:24 AM

my dad had his nail clippers taken away by TSA, that makes them stupid. Allowing people to keep things that aren't actually weapons gives me hope.

I am pretty sure they took it because my dad is huge, but still they are nail clippers, not even the big ones for toe nails.

1/3/2012 11:51:01 AM

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"in general they're idiots but this isn't why"

yup.

However, this is why:

Middle Eastern dude makes it through security with a loaded gun. Luckily for everyone on board, he was just a normal dude who happened to be middle eastern and not a turrrrrist.

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=7848683

1/3/2012 11:54:28 AM

I got selected for an enhanced dickgroping after forgetting to take of my wedding band in the backscatter machine at LAX. I thought I was pissed until I turned around and saw they were doing the same thing to Hulk Hogan. Pretty sure we barely avoided an acute case of Hulkamania there.

1/3/2012 11:56:58 AM

Is this another angst filled tww anti-authority thread? I thought we grew out of most of these after puberty?

1/3/2012 11:57:27 AM

couple of other good reads:

It's not just the NCAA that is threatened by cream cheese:
http://www.freakonomics.com/2012/01/03/tsa-chronicles-cream-cheese-edition/

More on the ridiculously costly security theater that we get to pay for:
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/12/tsa-insanity-201112

1/3/2012 12:02:49 PM

^^I think it is more of "I would like to get on a fucking airpane with my god damn shampoo and nail clippers for once" kinda thread, but I see your point, get a jerb you fucking hippies. lol

1/3/2012 12:12:05 PM

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"“The TSA at Logan Airport said the cupcakes looked delicious and told us to have a great trip. But in Las Vegas, they were dangerous. They shouldn’t be delicious in one part of the country and a security threat in the other.”"

lol

1/3/2012 12:15:26 PM

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"Is this another angst filled tww anti-authority thread? I thought we grew out of most of these after puberty?"

anti-authoritarian != anti-authority

[Edited on January 3, 2012 at 12:18 PM. Reason : .]

1/3/2012 12:18:07 PM

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"HAHAHAHA... wow... you're such an idiot!! DID you even read that or have any idea what frequencies aircraft FMS receives on!?!? The cell phone rule is for europe where they have VHF Immune ILS approaches. (They cut all the ILS frequencies in half so they can have more without them interfering) And it's for OLD cell phones.. like the motorola bag phone from 1990 or the one Zak Morris on Saved by the Bell."

Then why are US organizations and airliners reporting incidents where interference from a passenger's electronic device was believed to be the source of anomalies if the problem is only in Europe and hasn't been a problem since the 90s (according to you).

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/does-electronic-device-use-during-takeoff-and-landing-really-matter/

1/3/2012 12:50:28 PM

while not TSA, this is flight related:

http://www.wral.com/news/news_briefs/story/10557890/

what say you, oh great minds of tww?

1/4/2012 9:29:15 AM