Anybody make it through the airport

[scarysharp]

with a blade still on them?

My girlfriend just flew to California from JFK here in NY. I had given her a Ladybug Salt that she keeps clipped to the inside of her pocketbook. When she threw it up on the conveyor she realized the knife was still in her bag -she was worried BIG TIME.
Needless to say the "alert" person working security didnt even see it.
Sometimes I wonder if the word security really has any meaning to the people running it.
Dont get me wrong I'm glad her knife wasn't confiscated and then put on Evil BAy

 

[barsoomian]

I've accidentally got 2 knifes through airport security on two seperate occasions. I was carrying a butterfly knife in a pocket in my laptop back pack that i carried into the cabin and security didnt pick it up. I only realised when i got into my hotel. This was a domestic flight. The second time i had my D4 clipped into my shorts that was in my suitcase which went through to lugage hold on an international flight. I guess that isnt so bad not like you can get to the knife in the lugage hold. What was quite bad was getting a butterfly knife on board the cabin.

 

[puukkoman]

barsoomian, you're allowed to take knives (and firearms, for that matter, as long as they're declared) in your checked baggage.

 

[moonwilson]

Careful y'all. Big Brother is watching.

Posting in a thread like this is a good way to get your name on a "no fly" list.

Oops.

 

[nagod]

knives are ok in checked luggage.. lucked out on the butterfly in carryon..(and the ladybug)

 

[MustardMan]

I've gone through with a knife in my pocket or bag several times, always after simply forgetting it was there, and not once have I been stopped for it...

I did get "caught" once with a Swisstech screwzall on my keychain and have to surrender it to the TSA (this was pre-911)


Let me tell you, when I think terrorist, this is the tool that comes to mind...

 

[monsterdog]

Sometimes I wonder if the word security really has any meaning to the people running it.

Airport security is just a way to calm nervous people down. Really, does it matter if you have to spill out your drinking water in the name of "airline security" when millions of people have entered the US illegally trough thousands of miles of unsecured land and water borders?

Really? This just leads me to believe its a patch to calm voters without spending too much money or effort on fixing the problem.

 

[bigbre]

Agreed...figurativly if a person were looking to do harm to other people in something like a large flying transport there is very little that "security" could do to stop such a person if they were detirmined enough. Just saying...

-alex

 

[barsoomian]

What also amazes me is that airport/airline security racially profile people and target the "dodgy" looking Muslim guy, when the real terrorists are probably going to be middle aged white guys in suits.
Oh dam i should'nt be bad mouthing airport security especially since i'm flying tomorrow night eh moonwilson

 

[ColonelX]

made it through in august with my Orange Wharnie Urban Clipped to my pocket, didnt even beep!

 

[The Government]

Right after the fourth of july (post 9-11) I accidentaly carried a bunch of firecrackers into the airport. I was on the plane looking through my bag to get some trail mix and I saw the firecrackers and thought "wow." I dont think they will ever seal up the airports 100% from contraban.

 

[Esav Benyamin]

With all the high class help loading baggage that manage to steal from right out of your suitcases, what's to keep them from putting explosives inside them instead?

Security is a people problem. Anyone with access to an aircraft needs to be security-cleared like an NSA agent. Use dogs and sniffer technology and arm the passengers.

 

[Zaner01]

The point of airport security isn't to make it impossible to get contraband onto a plane. It's to make it harder, so your terrorists go looking for an easier target.

No system will be 100 percent effective, but 99 percent effective is effective enough to make the bad guys look for an easier plan. Like a bomb on the subway, for example.

 

[bekylane]

I've gone through with a knife in my pocket or bag several times, always after simply forgetting it was there, and not once have I been stopped for it...

I did get "caught" once with a Swisstech screwzall on my keychain and have to surrender it to the TSA (this was pre-911)


Let me tell you, when I think terrorist, this is the tool that comes to mind...

The keys look more dangerous than the Screwzall LOL.

 

[Maikutis]

I wouldn't be surprised if a knife got through:


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11863165/


TSA is a joke. I read here on the forums of a member getting through with a pistol a few years ago (accidentally, if I remember correctly he left it in his briefcase). Personally had a friend forget an extra pistol clip in his "go bag" that he repacked for carry-on. He didn't notice it until he was looking for his book mid-flight. They did, however, take infant nail clippers from my wife and baby.