Well I know I just left the country last week and then returned 7 days later and I tell you while I was going through all of these checkpoints I was trying to figure out where an individual could hide such a knife and get away with it. I mean you cannot pack it in your bag, at least not the places I went through because they run it through anXray machine and then hand pick through everything. Even going through the metal detector I had t o empty pockets, take off my shoes, send them with the baggage, and thn on the other side of the metal detector I was frisked very thoroughly. The sad thing was that was in America, I went to the Netherlands and their security makes our airport security look like a joke, seriously. It is sad too because most of our citizens get fed this crap about how we are the safest country in the world to live in and our airports are the most safe in the world, etc. LOL that is a bunch of BS!!!! If you go to a foreign country you will know what I mean.
I mean on my trip to the Netherlands as soon as we got off the place, we were patted down again, questioned, were met by what looked like soldiers, carrying fully automatic machine guns, and wearing full body armor among other things. I mean it looked like something you would see in a war stricken country at the end of the days. They had security monitors and mics in places all over and place you would least expect them. Even when you thought security wasn't around, they were around if you know what I mean. I can go on and on and on about that but on a final note even when we went outside there was checkpoints around the airport and around the city where they had more guards, fully armored vehicles, boyd armor, and guess what, more automatic weapons. It was insanely rediculous and made our airports look like a joke, but yet ours are supposedly safer. Yeah Right!