Who Left Their Strider with TSA?

ChrisB507

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My local paper, the Washington Post, has a pretty interesting story about what happens with the items that TSA collects at security checkpoints. There are a number of pictures, including one that looks to have a Strider mixed in with a random collection of junk knives, collected from the Newark airport.

I lost a SAK or two in my time, but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't turn over a Strider to TSA! The article is here: The Strange Afterlife of Banned TSA Items. The Strider picture is near the bottom of the story.
 
I think it's a Chinese clone. The pivot and hardware are polished, unlike the regular black finish.
 
Either he was very smart, or very dumb for taking a strider to the airport.
 
TSA WILL allow contraband to be shipped back...I got my $25 Swiss Army knife returned for $15.....<jerkit emoticon removed - Whine & Cheese use only)
 
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Anyone who bought a real Strider I hope wouldn't be dumb enough to go to the airport with it.
 
The big auction site has many sellers who sell TSA confiscated knives they got at TSA auctions. I follow a few of them.

Some sweet items occasionally show up. I've seem Al Mar SERE and Benchmades. But mostly they are SAKs and traditionals.
 
I see a lot of nice knives sprinkled in some of the images. You can just barely make out a Swisstool among some SAKs, and I feel like I've seen that pocket clip style before on that big orange handled on in the same box...
 
I'm wondering about some of the other stuff... Like a butter knife. Wtf? Bizarre EDC item.

Keys? Check. Wallet? Check. Flashlight? Check. Sunglasses? Check. iPhone? Check. Butter Knife? Hmm, crap, TSA confiscated it. Will have to settle for a Spyderco today.
 
Here in Austin, TX they have a state surplus warehouse with surplus state office furniture and the like. They also sell the knives confiscated at the airport by TSA. BUCKETS upon buckets of SAKs for ~99c a pop. A SAK lover's dream. Most of them are beat up to hell but it's fun rifling through the thousands to find a good one. The nicer knives like Benchmade's are sold behind a glass counter for okay prices.

Whadya know they have a website now with some pictures

http://www.tfc.state.tx.us/divisions/supportserv/prog/statesurplus/inventory/show.cfm?sr=1&idr=5

Piles of SAKs, piles of multitools!
 
I checked out the "Surrendered" knives on the TSA's auction site, and I think its really funny how people are actually biding on the lots of "silver-toned" or "black" knives. The silver-toned knives look like 10lbs worth of the $1 made-in-Pakistan folders that people sell at flea markets. Same thing with the non-branded multitools. Bids over $50 for a bag of Chinese Leatherman copies? People willing to pay over $100 for a bunch of Bear Grylis Gerbers? I guess a fool and his money are still easily parted.

At least the TSA/Government doesn't destroy these knives. I half surprised they don't given the views held by some in government that knives are weapons and not tools.
 
My daughter has lost 2 pink cold steel mini tuff lites at security. Some airports have a system in place that will allow you to mail them to yourselves. These are usually the smaller airports. Big airports like LAX (los angeles int'l) don't give a f#$@ . They give you the option of getting out of line to check them or surrendering them. Not worth getting out of line and risk missing your flight.

I keep checking the *Bay to see if it shows up there.
 
Not a Strider story, but an Emerson TSA story.

Was coming back from a convention and was flying commercial. My checked bag was a couple pounds overweight; more specifically, a couple pounds over the couple pounds they give you most of the time. No problem; I'll just grab a couple pounds of dirty clothes and shove them in to my already heavy and well stuffed carry-on back pack. I do exactly that and get the check bag down to just a pound or two over and I'm G2G.:thumbup:

That is until I got to the TSA line when I heard the dreaded, "Whose backpack is this?" question. Yup, I had my Emerson in the right front pocket of a pair of dirty jeans that, until a few minutes earlier, was in my checked bag where it belonged.:confused:

I availed myself to the little shipping kiosk that is strategically placed near the TSA line and shipped my SOCFK home to myself. The shipping costs were obscene and it took weeks to get the knife from Las Vegas to NJ - but at least I got my knife back.:mad:

There is some wisdom to travelling with a $20 folder I suppose.
 
I was just looking through NJs stuff and I saw a black knife bundle with a benchmade and a sog in it. I know the sog trident isn't worth much more than the $10 bid, but the bm would be...
 
No one else noticed the article that read:
"Swiss army knives, ranging from $5-$20 depending on the amount of blades."
"The Remington knife would do damage to a bear."
 
SALTY said:
Not a Strider story, but an Emerson TSA story.

Was coming back from a convention and was flying commercial. My checked bag was a couple pounds overweight; more specifically, a couple pounds over the couple pounds they give you most of the time. No problem; I'll just grab a couple pounds of dirty clothes and shove them in to my already heavy and well stuffed carry-on back pack. I do exactly that and get the check bag down to just a pound or two over and I'm G2G.:thumbup:

That is until I got to the TSA line when I heard the dreaded, "Whose backpack is this?" question. Yup, I had my Emerson in the right front pocket of a pair of dirty jeans that, until a few minutes earlier, was in my checked bag where it belonged.:confused:

I availed myself to the little shipping kiosk that is strategically placed near the TSA line and shipped my SOCFK home to myself. The shipping costs were obscene and it took weeks to get the knife from Las Vegas to NJ - but at least I got my knife back.:mad:

There is some wisdom to travelling with a $20 folder I suppose.
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I TOTALLY would ship my knife home. I don't care what it costs.
I "bond" with my knives. They're worth more than knives to me. Its a friend I don't fight with. Its always there to help me. How can I just leave it behind? No way.
 
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