do you think a spyderco jester would get confiscated at the airport?

Ren the devils trailboss

Ren the devils trailboss

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It is such a tiny knife. I really miss carrying a blade when I travel. I hate checking luggage because there is no guarantee that it will show up! I know the answer likely but anybody here work airport security??
 
Does it have a sharp edge? Then you do know the answer in this day and age.
 
Ren,

I can tell you that they definitely would confiscate it if they see it/find it. And who wants to take that chance. I know how you feel, I feel like I'm naked when I fly without a knife. But, you've got to check it or buy a cheap knife where you're going.

As far as lost luggage goes...statistically, you've got a good chance of getting your luggage at the end of the flight. I've had luggage lost, but it always showed up eventually - 1, 2 or 3 days later. Out of 1,000 flights all over the US, Korea, Japan, Germany - I've only had luggage lost 3 times - and it always showed up.

Bite the bullet and check your knives. It'll be OK.

Dean
 
Unfortunately security still varies, however if they find it's gone.
 
I just flew for the first time since 9-11 this week and I checked everything including my micra. They did "random" searches of three or four people on every leg of my flight. Some of these searches included removing shoes and all used the handheld metal detectors.
Better feeling naked than left behind or worse.
G
 
the answer for the naked feeling.... take a pen, one which has the feel of your knife in your pocket...;) thats what I do at church.
 
Im not worried about lost luggage as much as the hassle of waiting for luggage. I would just as soon use a carryon and stroll on/off the plane...unfortunatly no knoves

R:(
 
"Knowingly and Intentionally" trying to board an aircraft with contraband items is a sure ticket to the local magistrate and in all probability, jail. "Knowingly and intentionally" are culpable mental states which make the behavior criminal and prosecuteable.

If you absolutely have to have a knife, find alternative transportation.

Options: Take money to buy a cheap knife on arrival to your destination, mail one to yourself at your destination beforehand, or put your bladewear in the checked baggage with your underwear.

Mike
 
Originally posted by Ren the devils trailboss
It is such a tiny knife. I really miss carrying a blade when I travel. I hate checking luggage because there is no guarantee that it will show up! I know the answer likely but anybody here work airport security??
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Give it a shot.
Maybe the warden will let you use a computer to tell us if they found it.
 
All this confiscation stuff pisses me off. They don't have the right to take any of your belongings from you, they only have the right to say that you can't take those belongings on their plane, or past their security checkpoint.
If you find them trying to "take" anything from you, mail it to yourself, give it away to someone who isn't going through security, etc. don't let the damn gaurd just steal things from you.
I'd rather get stuck taking a later flight than letting some rent a cop take advantage of their and my position.
 
With the current state of airport security, you're going to see it taken away from you.
I especially remind my sister to put her folding knife in the checked luggage so that she wouldn't loose it to security even though she's not travelling into the US.
 
When I eventually fly again (I average about once every two years - and last time was last November (The very day the plane fell in NY/NJ - thought we weren't going when that happened!) I will take a pen with a strong body - my Papermate SS comes to mind - in the pocket of a nice polo.

You damn betcha they'd take even a little one inch blade if they found it, and if that's ALL that happened!
 
Ren:
hahahahahahahahahahaha! Dude, you been under a rock? They take nail clippers from the PILOTS who fly the plane they are boarding!!!

Will'em:
You don't carry a knife in church?? Why in the world not?
 
Knives + Airline flight = BUSTED BIG TIME!!!:(
Try to carry any sort of knives onto a plane these days and you go to jail, then you get to spend a lot of "quality time" explaining it all to the Feds, who will be very understanding--NOT.;)
Simple as that in these sad times that we find ourselves living in...
~Ashley~
 
I have flown several times in the last year. The one time I forgot my CS 3" clip point they found it. They also confiscated my SMALL nail clippers because of the 1" file.
 
Well, my son made it through an airport with a SE Endura. The security person looked at it and then gave it back saying not to display it. I was worried about this prior to him going to the airport (I was not there) and told him to be sure to take it off his person. As mentioned above we were lucky.
 
A few months ago I picked up a cheap Tactical Folder for my cousin while on a trip to Ohio. I "forgot" that I had placed it in my dop kit, next to a toothpaste tube on one side and a few CD's on the other. It was like a scene from Midnight Express - I was in the security line wondering if I'd be able to talk my way out of this one if I didn't make it through. Well, I made it - my bag was xrayed, re x rayed a supervisor was called, all contents searched by hand (nothing found)re x rayed, finally this security supervisor pulls out a very terrorist looking chinese folder and looks at me with two raised eyebrows."Oh Jeez, I musta had that in there from my last camping trip - Please confiscate it", says I.
"You have 2 options."' says she.
"Oh., I'm so embaressed please just take it." says I.
"This confiscation is bullsh*t.:, says a guy in an NRA cap behind me.
"Sorry" I grin sheepishly while stuffing clothes and shoes back into my bag and moving toward my gate.

So..... If you try to bring a weapon on an aircraft - you will be caught - maybe let go or maybe arrested. But think are you feeling lucky? is the adrenal buzz worth a felony charge +++ many headaches? I won't do it again even tho I too feel naked w/o a blade. Won't buy a "frequent Flyer" or polymer knife or a lucite shiv taped to my thigh or a flint knapped blade or a titanium spike. I will carry a sharpened carpenters pencil and my wits about me.
 
I'm not saying you should try to take a knife on a plane these days. I'm saying if your going through security and unknowingly have something they don't want you too, you shouldn't just hand it over. I'm not saying they're all that way, but you know there's an ******* somewhere who's confiscating things for themself, they enforce the rules according to how it benefits them.
 
About two months ago, I realized that the SOG Para Tool I had put in my checked luggage on my flight up, was now in my briefcase after I had gone through security for my return flight (Can you hear Marlon Brando..."the hor-ror...the hor-ror..).

Once I realized what had happened, it was too late-I was on the plane. I guess the two Security Agents were probably distracted thinking about their upcoming Mensa Society entrance exams, and didn't pay attention. :rolleyes:

This is not something I would recommend trying on purpose. geegee
 
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