Freaking TSA

jrh said:
My brother was traveling a while ago and packed all his toiletries in his checked bag, except for a 3 oz bottle of contact lense solution that he carried in his backpack in case he wanted to take out his contacts and put on glasses while traveling.

The TSA confiscated the bottle of contact solution. You know what the problem was? He didn't put the bottle inside a plastic bag. He was like..."What? What's the difference if it's in a plastic bag or not? It's the only liquid I have. One bottle, nothing else."

"Sorry sir, it's just the rule."


I feel so much safer now.
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Contact lens solutions and solids like deodorant don't have to be in the plastic bag and they can be larger than 3oz.
 
I went to the TSA website to see if they said what happens to all the confiscated loot, but was distracted by this ... "Transportation Security Operations Center Re-Named Freedom Center" (hah!)

Anyway, here's your junk: http://search.ebay.com/NTSA

If they can put a dollar figure on the money lost to people playing fantasy sports, surely they can figure out how much money was lost to missed flights and delayed shipments ... then weight that against the cost of all those incidents that would have happened, if not for them.
 
Today in GEG, I had to laugh. I was going through security (in uniform, working the flight to SMF) and I witnessed the TSA agent (plus 2 more watching him) explaining to a passenger the difference between 3.4 and 3.7 ounces. Our tax dollars hard at work...

Anyway, about 20 minutes later, our out-of-breath, mildly-freaking-out station manager comes up to the plane to let us know that TSA MAY have let a bag slip though and they have to pull every bag off every flight at our terminal...us, Frontier, 3 Alaska 737s and a couple of Horizon Dashes. Luckily, we only had 16 people, so we only took a 20 minute delay for the bags.

Our nation's finest GED recipients!
 
ok my experience with the tsa goes somehwat like this. remember the movie blow. just think of a happy place when you go by the screeners. do not look like you are hiding something. i carry more liquids on board then the catering services. now i know this is probably going to be the end of my run since i am tlaking about it but look like nothing is bothering you and be confident.
 
Went to Vegas recently and good old Allegiant Airlines took my deodorant, toothpaste and hair junk....

At least I could clean my ears and brush with water.
 
amorris311 said:
ok my experience with the tsa goes somehwat like this. remember the movie blow. just think of a happy place when you go by the screeners. do not look like you are hiding something. i carry more liquids on board then the catering services. now i know this is probably going to be the end of my run since i am tlaking about it but look like nothing is bothering you and be confident.
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Yeah... 'cuz the screeners will all be looking at you thinking "there goes a very confident young man..." instead of looking at the video screen of your 12 oz. bottles of hair gel...

;)

Bob
 
I have a GED, so I kind of resent those remarks. :o In fact, a few of the smartest people I know have GEDs.

Of course, that isn't an exact representation of all people who have it.
 
i apologize should have considered the fact that there are many people out there that have done well with a ged. my aunt for example never graduated high school but went on to become a double phd and eventually a professor at usc. i am sorry if my comments offended anyone else.
 
If you guys have bottles of liquds, tubes of toothpaste, or even turkey sandwiches that are bigger than 3 ounces all you have to do is put it in your pockets as you walk through the mag. As long as it doesn't set it off you will be fine.

Just gotta play their game is all :)
 
Timbuff10 said:
If you guys have bottles of liquds, tubes of toothpaste, or even turkey sandwiches that are bigger than 3 ounces all you have to do is put it in your pockets as you walk through the mag. As long as it doesn't set it off you will be fine.

Just gotta play their game is all :)
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You know, Timmy Timmah, you may have hit on a good idea. If you wear say, cargo shorts, and you put say, lip balm in there or hair gel or whatever in there, it's not going to set off the metal detector, right?

So how would they know?

And if they did find out, just say, oh, sorry, it's in my pocket because I was using it in the bathroom and forgot to repack it.

As if they will.
 
I don't know what to think about the TSA, it is all kind of new to me.

However, on the way from JFK to PHX they made us take our 4 month old daughter out of the stroller and they scanned her with the metal detector wands, meanwhile my wife walked through the checkpoint with a 10 oz tube of ointment in her bag.

Good job guys, I feel safer already.
 
Minuteman said:
Anyway, here's your junk: http://search.ebay.com/NTSA
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From one of those auctions:

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Oh, the irony! :D
 
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