Yeah, the last time I flew, they "intercepted" a 3" Phillips-head screwdriver that I'd left in my laptop case.
Guy behind me dryly commented that "he felt safer already".
These Asinine rules don't protect anyone, they just harass people.
I am beginning to think that some of the TSA agents are too stupid to realize they could be on welfare and get paid to do nothing. Then again, this is the only job that these people could get with such authoritarian power.
I had a travel bag with some bathroom utensils in it, I used to toss in my suitcase when we would go on overnighters by car. One trip when we did fly, I tossed it in without thinking. Since the suitcase was more full than usual, I placed the bag in my carry on with shoes and other toiletries.
Sure enough, the TSA folks found a small pair of scissors inside a bag, inside another bag, inside my carry on bag.
You’d have thought my picture was posted on the wall with the other top nine most desperate criminals in the U. S. Sir, did you know you had these? We’ll have to take them.
Taking them wasn’t the problem. They were a nice pair of scissors I couldn’t replace.
Ah yes, but all the paper on the flight was safe.
My view of the TSA employee is a person making minimum wage who couldn’t handle a step above gopher job, all of a sudden given the power to fu_k with anyone they want on a whim.
What brain-trust thought this was going to work out well?
“Oh, look at that babe. I’ll be right back after I’ve felt her up, and had our machine determine what exact perfume she is wearing.”
This is about abuse, pure and simple. They are putting us in our place. More to come folks, there always is.