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Coming back from Washington State last week I got pulled aside by TSA for something in my backpack. I knew it had to be a knife or some food that I forgot to put in my checked baggage. Thank God it was not my favorite knife, but it was, alas, an old and trusted one.
My 14 year old Gerber multiplier was confiscated. Dang it. That thing went all through the south pacific with me. I opened coconuts, cut down bamboo trees, we spent time together man, good times!
What has TSA taken from you that meant something?
My 14 year old Gerber multiplier was confiscated. Dang it. That thing went all through the south pacific with me. I opened coconuts, cut down bamboo trees, we spent time together man, good times!
What has TSA taken from you that meant something?
posted by Comm's @ 4:09 AM
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Sorry about 'ol faithful. It sucks when that happens.
My daughter had a pen that looked like a hammer and boy did that cause some major problems. They checked all her stuff, but in the end they let her keep it cause it was plastic with a rubber top. It kinda freaked her out.
This really resonates with me. You should pitch this as an ad to Gerber. Anyone who knows anything about the importance of a good knife, anyone who has been in the military or similar profession and developed a bond with their gear (like a knife) would really egt this post, and be saddened by it like I am.
I don't have a trusted knife from the military, but I do have a pair of excellent finger nail clippers I bought in France. I purposely do not taken them with me when travelling for fear of losing them.
Nothing yet. But they did once give my bike pedals a stern look and finally deemed them OK thinking they were scuba diving equipment ...
On our way back from a trip to Austin last December, Ang (not really thinking about it) stuck a bottle of our favorite barbeque sauce in her purse instead of our luggage. It got confiscated when we got to the airport. Thankfully it wasn't expensive but it was still sad.
I took a motorcycle ride up to British Columbia last year, by way of Lake Flathead, Montana. There is a huckleberry and cherry orchard there (www.bowmancherries.com) that grows the best berries and cherries I have ever had.
I was meeting my wife and a large number of her family up in BC for my father-in-law's 65th birthday celebration, so I bought a bunch of berries, cherries and jams for everyone. Well, the thing that I forgot was that they would have to fly home with them, which is fine for checked bags, but a number of family forgot and had them with their carry-on items...including my wife and her 85yr old grandmother. TSA scored some great jam and cherries that day! Even my 85 yr old grandmother enphatically declaring they were a gift from her grandson-in-law was not immune. It really upset everyone. Got to watch those jams, dude! Very sticky! What a waste!
In another trip, they confiscated a VERY nice Hen & Rooster, bone handled pocket knife that my mom gave me for a birthday. I forgot about it being in my pocket; it's (or was) just always there. I miss that knife!
Don't they give you the option to step out of line and mail the stuff home? I would DIE if something like that got taken away from me. They toss that stuff in barrels and sell it in bulk on eBay. WAH!
I hardly fly at all so I haven't had anything taken away. I think we should set up some sort of business where people can mail stuff home. It's just heartbreaking to hear these stories. :<(
i lost some nice perfume that i had spaced on. still upset about that and it's been three years.
my modesty.
on the way home from my sisters wedding in Rhode Island last summer, I hadn't gone to sleep and still had my hair pinned up in about 54 bobby pins. so instead of taking that as my explaination of why the sensor was beeping, this wretched lady pulled me aside and proceeded to stick her bomb wand up my skirt.
In public.
Something tells me that she went a bit too far.
Oh, and they took some paint sticks once too.
But not the ones I was hiding in pants that time.
Nothing confiscated but a camera stolen from our suitcase...when all said and done, they did reimburse us...
Megan--way too funny...Peeing in my pants LOL.
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