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post #16 of 41
1/2/09 at 1:50pm
I fly a couple of times a month. The TSA is completely brain dead. Sure, I want to be safe - but I'm having a hard time believing that the best we can do is Totally Senseless Automatons. It really is worse than random - they pull aside every walker, wheelchair and stroller for closer inspection. My 90 year old father has an artificial hip, a pacemaker and hearing aids. He gets treated to a hand-pat. My 11 year old daughter wears an insulin pump. She gets treated to a hand-pat - unless we take her pump off before we go though and throw it in my briefcase - then we sail right though. It's truly idiotic.

For a good piece of fiction on the subject (although it is fiction that is all too possible) I recommend "Little Brother" by Cory Doctorow. It's available as a free text download:
Little Brother » Download for Free
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post #17 of 41
1/2/09 at 2:41pm
One time I was in San Francisco international airport for a flight to Tokyo. When my Tumi laptop carrier went through the x-ray, the TSA personnel asked me to open it and she rifled through all the pockets inside until she found what she saw on the x-ray.
It was my little screwdriver that I use to tighten the small screws of my eyeglasses. Then she showed it to her colleague, told me to pack my stuff and move on.

I guess she was afraid that I might stick it up somebody's nose and declare "h*Jack".
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post #18 of 41
1/2/09 at 3:02pm
I have avoided flying for the last 5 years and counting. The idea of wasting so much time between being 2 hours early plus check in/out and car rentals ... So if the distance is less than 750 miles I drive. Sucks but it sucks less than flying!
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post #19 of 41
1/2/09 at 3:08pm
I got searched in Qatar for having a bottle of perfume shaped like a ceremonial dagger.

That time, though, I felt stupid for packing what appeared to be a dagger somewhere so hard to get to.
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post #20 of 41
1/2/09 at 6:12pm
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Originally Posted by Sherwood View Post
I got searched in Qatar for having a bottle of perfume shaped like a ceremonial dagger.

That time, though, I felt stupid for packing what appeared to be a dagger somewhere so hard to get to.
That's a double-whammy - a dagger-shaped object filled with liquid - I'm surprised they didn't make you either ship it or throw it away.
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post #21 of 41
1/2/09 at 6:25pm
TSA made me get out of my wheelchair and hobble through the x-ray machine because i had an ipod/ibasso combo. They even made me remove belt and shoes before i could slump back in my chair . i curse living on an island. I'm not flying again untill i can walk.
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post #22 of 41
1/2/09 at 6:55pm
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Originally Posted by billybob_jcv View Post
I'm surprised they didn't make you either ship it or throw it away.
Turns out you can actually carry daggers on Qatar airways, just not on flights to Turkey.
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post #23 of 41
1/2/09 at 8:03pm
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Well, I must say that looks MUCH more ominous than the 92 year old woman with a wheelchair and an oxygen tank that was being hand-patted by the Totally Senseless Administration the last time I went through their gauntlet.

Look at the bright side - imagine what they would have done to you if that was a hand built mint-tin CMoy velcro'd to your ipod...
Oh, and I was in a wheel chair too and gave them my cane to xray...
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post #24 of 41
1/2/09 at 8:20pm
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Here is the backpack unloaded...

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post #25 of 41
1/2/09 at 8:25pm
lol..am not surprised they pulled you over..still sucks for sure..but dang..that is a lot of stuff
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post #26 of 41
1/3/09 at 2:30am
Ahh - well, there you go - in your story you left out the most crucial and damning piece if evidence - your wheelchair! You might as well have been wearing a "Saddam is alive and living in Idaho" T-shirt.
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post #27 of 41
1/3/09 at 2:34am
Yeah, I learned to keep the pieces separate after last years disaster when we almost missed our flight because of me. I also had my case full off about 10 mouthpieces with me as well which they thought might be "tiny pipe bombs".

Yeah, this year had no issues. Do separate.
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post #28 of 41
1/3/09 at 2:47am
Wow, that sounds way worse that my incident a few flights ago.

I found out too late that my Nintendo DS was the thing setting off the walk-through alarm, and so I was pulled off to the side to be talked to and patted down (*coughmolestedcough*), so everybody could stare at me like I was part of a zoo exhibit.
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post #29 of 41
1/3/09 at 3:11am
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Originally Posted by my.self View Post
LOL forbigger, turn them into head-fi lol. try ur rig haha. and why 3 amps? ur kids use amps too? how old are they? i dont think THAT old if they still need u to add/remove xmas songs and watch lilo and stitch. if the amps are for ur kids, that would be interesting haha. kids using amps! pretty cool imo.
hey hey I am 16 if you want to consider that a kid and I have enjoyed quality audio my whole life
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post #30 of 41
1/3/09 at 3:20am
Yep, same thing happened to me not too long ago. It seems to be ok if you take apart your "headphone b***" before going through security.
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