15,000 knives confiscated?????

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TLR

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Did anyone else see where the airports supposedly confiscated over 15,000 knives over T-Day season :eek: ??? Who is still carrying them through security. Another question out of ignorance if they find one is it confiscated or can you simply ask for it back and walk out??? What will Christmas be like. I guess this just reminds us it will never be like it was.:grumpy:
http://news.yahoo.com/fc?tmpl=fc&cid=34&in=business&cat=aviation_security
 
That is nothing. If you look at this article they mention that for a eight month period of February 02 to October 02 there were almost 800,000 knives confiscated, and seperate from that 30,000 box cutters!


Well, they took down the article, but it was in the washington post
 
I may be wrong but I think once they are conficated they are gone. Speaking of ignorance, who would want to carry a brick onto a plane?:rolleyes: :eek: :confused:
 
What happens to them all? Do they eventually get auctioned off in lots or something?
 
I guess my next question is anyone know where they take these things. For the good of the environment I will humble myself to go through these knives and keep any that should be spared so that they will not pollute the environment in a landfill!!!! Really anybody know where they end up and please please don't tell me good knives are wasted :eek:
 
The article goes on to say the following about the fate of all these items: "The prohibited items are turned over to local police, where they're either kept as evidence or thrown away, Johnson said." :( :( I understand why they have to take the knives but it's a shame that they can't be auctioned off. The money could be put to good use by the various agencies and the knives (and I guess even that brick some genius tried to bring on the plane) could continue to serve their useful purposes.
 
I would wager that the majority of the knives confiscated are junk. Little stuff that goes on keychains, asia $2 stuff and the like.
 
I saw an interview a few months ago on TV with the head of security and some major airport, DFW comes to mind, but I may be wrong. He was lamenting the new restrictions on knives. They were causing him a problem. You see, the law does not specify what they're to do with the confiscated materials. It does not provide for their return nor does it give the airports permission to either sell off or destroy them. So, this guy was interviewed in a store room sitting amidst, I kid you not, 55 gallon drums full of pocket knives. They had several drums full of nail clippers. What are ya gonna do with 300 gallons of used nail clippers? He commented that he wasn't sure that the nail clippers weren't technically considered biohazardous waste. While they were conducting the interview, a man came into the background with one of those plastic tote pans full of knives and dumped it into one of the barrels, apparently the day's take.
 
I bet that a lot of those "knives" were actually tweezers, nail files, nail clippers, screwdrivers, etc.
 
ooops I must have accidently skipped over that part of the article but thanks. It really is a shame. That would be the ultimate grab bag. Maybe we should post a new thread. How much would you give for a 55 gallon drum of pocket knives on EBAY:)
 
It'd be a good bet. Those little files that come attatched with nail clippers are considered knives and confiscated. Same with the little scissors/nailfile/penblade combo generic SAK's.
 
This was on the news here this evening. Do people really not know that they can't take these items on planes?

As quoted from Fox News:

Despite a drumbeat of news reports about the restrictions and the boost in screening intensity, in the eight months from February to September, screeners nationwide seized 813 firearms, 783,670 knives and 31,064 boxcutters from passengers.
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These numbers are absolutely astonishing to me.
 
Why Astonishing? Most of this stuff is probably innocuous junk. Nail clipers, and files from manicure and toiletry kits. Key chain barbles, toys (like GiJoe's knife), shaving razors, bottle openers, and the like. The kind of stuff that Webster would never have consider a weapon, or a knife. Some of these places were even confiscating T-shirts bearing images of guns.

Safety Gains - 0%
Pissed off passengers - Time will tell

n2s
 
I think you guys are right about most of the "knives" not actually being knives. I saw a picture of a boxfull of confiscated "knives" in Time magazine and it was basically a box full of little fingernail scissors, one corkscrew and one cigar cutter. I don't recall seeing one real knife. I think the press just reports them as knives to make it a little more alarming.
 
Look, it's always a serious matter when the State takes private property; I would remind folks that you're under no obligation to undergo a search or surrender your property. Of course, that means you ain't not gettin' on da plane, either. Take your choice. Me, I ain't givin' up da blade (which you better believe are ending up in government pockets...how many people ask for receipts?).
 
Wow! I feel safe now. I wonder if my steel-toe Cats would count as a weapon? Some people don't have the common sense God gave geese.

Frank
 
They may mostly be junk, but even if a couple of hundred were nice, (BM, Spydies, ect) and fifty were upper end, and maybe a few customs,(I've known some really scatterbrained people :confused: with too much money, they wouldn't think twice about tossin' a custom into a barrel to get on a plane).

Wouldn't be a sin to think they were destroyed?:(

Wouldn't you like to the one who bought a barrel for fifty bucks, and found a Terzoula, or Elishewitz folder, with a BM or two added to the pile.:D
 
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