I just took a knife on a plane

Ming65

Ming65

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I boxed my Pacific Salt up last week to be posted back to Spyderco for repairs. I put it in my laptop bag so I would remember to post it next time I went to the city.

I haven't flown for work for a few weeks so maybe my watertight checking routine was a little soft. In any case, as I checked my bag through the security X-ray, the security guard looked close at it, took the bag off the conveyor and ran it through the X-ray twice. I was wondering what he was looking at but on the third time through he just let me pick up my bag without comment.

When I arrived at the hotel I was checking through the bag to make sure I had everything for the job when I found the Spyderco in the bottom. I had just unintentionally taken it in the plane for a 2 hour flight. :o I had a brief seizure and then placed said knife in my checked bag where it will stay for the rest of the trip until I get to a post office.

This was at a fairly quiet airport without a huge rush or cue, yet this largish folder easily made it through and on to the plane - wierd huh.
 
terrorist threats not so prevalent down under I guess... condolences on the Jakarta embassy thing though... hope your paisanos fare better than we've been faring.
 
You got lucky. If it had been me that did that, I'd still be getting cavity searched.
 
I love how the guy seemed to be suspicious enough to run it through the x-ray a total of 3 times, when he could have just opened it and found the knife in about half the time.
 
A guy at work thought his bag he kept on the rig would make a nice carry on,so he took out his facepiece, gloves etc.and took it home to pack it.

When he got to his hotel room and was unpacking,opps! there was that sak he forgot he kept in an outside pocket.....
 
Eh, wasn´t the security measures from 911 and before just to make people feel safe? 100% security - heard of but never seen. :)

/Colinz
 
There was a guy locally that managed to bring a belt-buckle style knife on a plane, but he decided it would be a good idea to call the big radio station in town and tell them about it. From the plane. Which was prepping for takeoff. It was promptly grounded, the guy was removed, and I can't IMAGINE what kind of fun came for him after that. .
 
The purpose of airport security is not to make it impossible to carry weapons aboard, but to dramatically reduce the probability of success in attempts to do so.

The key word there is probability. If the probability of detection of a knife in baggage is nine-out-of-ten, then a terrorist isn't going to attempt it. It's to probable that he'll get caught. But, if the probability of detection of a knife in baggage is nine-out-of-ten, then one in ten people who accidentally forget a knife in their bag will be missed.

Congratulations, you are the one in ten.

And that does NOT prove that airport security in incompetent or that it isn't effective.
 
I once spent 15 minutes being checked and double wanded at security. My ticket was double checked, my pockets wre turned out, my belt buckle was exhaustively examined and then I was sent thru with a wave and a smile. I got to the gate sat down and opened up my backpack to retrieve my headphones... there sitting in my side pocket of my bag right on top was my black aluminum ASP key defender with its charge of OC. I had know idea it was there and generally am very careful to check anything that could possibly be considered a weapon. Lucked out this time. Where did this little episode take place? Well Logan airport of course;-)>
 
You took a knife on a plane and the demonic influence of the evil instrument of doom didn't take possession of your soul and cause you to hijack the plane and crash it into a skyscraper?!! :barf:

Geez, I guess that whole evil inanimate object thing is just a lot of hooey after all. :eek: :rolleyes:

I'm glad you did not get into deep doodee for that faux paus, Ming65.


All the best,
Mike U.
 
misque said:
You took a knife on a plane and the demonic influence of the evil instrument of doom didn't take possession of your soul and cause you to hijack the plane and crash it into a skyscraper?!! .
Click to expand...

Well I did notice my voice deepened to a booming growl and that my eyes tunred green and started spinning in their sockets but I figured it was one to many in flight beers :D
 
Ming65 - Actually, the security person did see the knife. After he passed you through the gate, you were tailed by a security officer who followed you on to the plane, sat next to or near you, and watched your every move. Had you attempted to retrieve the knife from your bag and open it, the officer would have placed a large caliber handgun against your head (loaded with aluminum bullets of course) and told you to freeze or die. Depending on what you did next, you would have either been shot then and there, or escorted off the plane after it landed where you would have been wisked into a backroom for interrogation by cattle prod so that you would reveal the names of your co-conspirators.

Sound improbable? Perhaps, perhaps.... ;)
 
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