Sheeple!

[HeadKicker]

Honestly, I could write shorts stories about how funny/crazy some of the decisions they make and encounters I and other associates have had with TSA. I mentioned earlier, them attempting to confiscate water or toothpaste while because it could possibly used as a weapon, while I am wearing a Glock pistol...which is actually a real weapon.

 

[Blackwind]

Oh, the HORRORS!!!!!!!!!!! ...You criminal! How dare you use a knife to cut zip ties to make your child happy! Don't you have TEETH????






...I was in a meeting filled with people that I know well, and that know me well for years. The meeting was held around and including the lunch hour, and so sandwiches & chips were served during a break. The darn bag of chips would not open even under considerable force, so instead of pushing it to the point of exploding potato chips everywhere, I calmly pulled out my EDC folder, an XM-18, opened it 2-handed style, and proceeded to cut open the top of the bag. A woman on the other side of the table recoiled in horror and asked what I was doing with that "huge" knife. Huge??? LOL ...The way she reacted, you'd have though that I had jumped up on the table and while brandishing it about, threatened her life or something. She knows me, knows that I'm not a violent person, but boy that knife really caused a stir ...I calmly said that she should see the knife I had in my truck!! (Busse HOGFSHLE) lolz

Had me cracking up.

A very similar event happened to me as myself and a hand full of co-workers were struggling to open several cardboard boxes. We were trying to distribute several copies of a new contract agreement, a 1 inch binder with all of our services and descriptions, etc for a meeting room that was about to have about 35 people sitting in it. The boxes were extremely late and we only had about 5 minutes to get them out of the boxes and on the table. I did not hesitate in reaching to the back of pants and pulling out a small serrated CRKT KISS I wear every day. I proceeded to hand it to a co-worker and pointed at the boxes. I stepped over to my laptop bag and proceeded to pull out a Benchmade Osbourne Axis Lock and proceed to open the others. No one said anything until much later at dinner and everyone said they were SHOCKED that I had knives with me, we were out of town in Georgia, I'm from Texas. I explained that I don't travel without a knife ever...reason I always check luggage.

 

[mhawg]

HeadKicker's tale is similar to the fact that a concealed weapons permit is for a firearm and does not give you the right to carry a knife that doesn't abide by local ordinances. South Carolina finally passed the state law removing the word 'knife' from the list of 'deadly weapons' and stated that a knife is a deadly weapon only if it is used as such. That didn't change the local ordinance stating that a folding knife can have a blade no longer than 2" and that carrying a straight knife is illegal at all times.