Post by: Kampfer on July 27, 2016, 10:08:50 PM
Post by: Kampfer on July 27, 2016, 10:23:30 PM
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:o Surprise! There is a security checkpoint in the lobby, of course I was stopped at the metal detector.
:pok: The guard pointed at my pocket: "Sir, you got something in there."
:think: I replied, "It is my pocket knife."
:twak: "You must leave that at the security desk."
:shrug: Ok, so I went to the security desk told the girl there I am going leave my knife with her; I pulled it out the Espada and hang it over.
:sa: "OH MY GOD! You got the biggest one I ever seen!!!" She said.
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:cheers: On the way out I went pick it up, she told me a couple theirs guards had been checking my Espada out :drool: , and it officially made history in the tower, being the BIGGEST knife ever tried to enter the attraction.
Observation deck
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There is an infinity mirror that you can stand on, and that looks like you are going to fall through the building. It was a little creepy to stand on but super cool. Oh yes, my Spirit tool went through undetected.
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Post by: Noa Isumi on July 27, 2016, 11:14:35 PM
Years ago I was called for jury duty so I knew I couldn't carry anything. Being broke at the time a McD's Happy meal was my most affordable lunch since I needed the rest of the 15$comp elsewhere till pay. When I went back through the check and emptied my pockets the deputy just stopped with this befuddled look on his face; "Sir, whats with the panda"
Post by: cody6268 on July 27, 2016, 11:20:03 PM
Tools carried: Vic (Explorer or Fieldmaster,if I remember correctly) and Leatherman PST II.
Guard asks me, "got any knives or guns on you?" I'd took them out of my pockets and into the car's seatback map compartment before, so I reply, "Nope, left them in the car". Grandmother tells me, "Cody, you know that could have been misconstrued as me having a gun in the car". To this date, I still laugh that off.
Post by: ddogu on July 27, 2016, 11:28:08 PM
Post by: Alan K. on July 27, 2016, 11:36:17 PM
Post by: Pacu on July 27, 2016, 11:48:36 PM
Chicago O'hare easy, Houston Bush easy, New Orleans missed a Vic Farmer and a zippo in my carry on, Hobby in Houston is super easy. LaGardia in NYC is a true biotch. Atlanta is a nightmare. I carried my wave on my hip by accident from Houston to Denver no problem. Now Denver coming back is brutal i guess from the weed smuggling back home.
Don't carry a backpack around Washing DC. Bag checks every 5 meters. Disneyworld has bag checks all militant style but no metal detectors . Some guy in front of us took his beer out of his bag and put it in his pockets. Talk about forced false security.
Post by: yud on July 28, 2016, 12:00:14 AM
Also stopped by the British library and so my suitcase had to be checked.
Post by: ddogu on July 28, 2016, 12:09:04 AM
Not just the one time, but every time I go through a checkpoint, when asked if I have any guns or knives I respond with a conspiratorial whisper of ,"what do you need?" Usually gets at least a chuckle out of the guards who have a rather mundane job. It did, once, result in a couple of deputies (who didn't share my sense of humor) pushing me against the wall and frisking me. :facepalm:
:rofl:
I love your technique, though :) :tu:
Post by: shark_za on July 28, 2016, 04:48:40 AM
shark_za(stopping by on the way home from the shooting range): No I have three.
Security Guard: hahaha, come inside
Post by: Kev D on July 28, 2016, 12:52:19 PM
Serves me right I suppose for trying to be mean to someone else.
Post by: ironraven on July 29, 2016, 03:52:47 AM
Broke his poor little brain.
Post by: Pacu on July 29, 2016, 09:40:51 PM
The next week some poor guy just opened the door without properly IDing the TSgt. :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm:
Post by: colt 1911 on July 29, 2016, 11:24:21 PM
Damn metal detectors. Well someone at Disney is walking around with my pen.
Post by: Pacu on July 29, 2016, 11:32:12 PM
Post by: Kampfer on July 29, 2016, 11:36:12 PM
Disneyland LA, snagged my tactical pen, You have the option to take back to your car or surrender.The same setup at Universal Studios LA, luckily I left the Espada in our car.
Damn metal detectors. Well someone at Disney is walking around with my pen.
The spirit got through undetected.
Post by: Kampfer on July 29, 2016, 11:38:37 PM
Post by: colt 1911 on July 30, 2016, 12:14:42 AM
i'd break it right there in front of them, then hand it over.
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Post by: colt 1911 on July 30, 2016, 12:15:21 AM
Good call !Disneyland LA, snagged my tactical pen, You have the option to take back to your car or surrender.The same setup at Universal Studios LA, luckily I left the Espada in our car.
Damn metal detectors. Well someone at Disney is walking around with my pen.
The spirit got through undetected.
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Post by: colt 1911 on July 30, 2016, 12:17:11 AM
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Post by: jcs0001 on July 31, 2016, 04:38:23 PM
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/airport-security-guns-teargas-1.3701532
Keep in mind that this is Canada where firearms and other "weapons" are under fairly heavy regulation.
Worst that ever happened to me/us, was coming home from Nicaragua. Bought two small jars of guava/rum jam as gifts and had them seized in yet another security check in Houston. Didn't even get a taste.
John.
Post by: ToolJoe on July 31, 2016, 04:45:25 PM
Post by: Fortytwo on August 01, 2016, 12:10:22 AM
A friend had never flown and turned up at the airport with a large pair of scissors when we where going for a trip with our class. I explained that they wouldn't get them through security so she went to the toilet and hid them in the ceiling, they where still there a week later when we got back.
Post by: charlie fox on August 01, 2016, 02:25:12 PM
Post by: RaptorMan on August 01, 2016, 02:43:55 PM
Post by: WoodsDuck on August 01, 2016, 03:13:02 PM
I went through TSA in Seattle with my Wave in my backpack without a hiccup (unintentionally), but had a Doohickey on my keychain in Huntsville and got the full meal deal; extra screening, bag search, pointed interview...afterwards when I asked why they said that if they find an "artfully disguised" device they assume the person has more. i also got the love note in my checked bag that said they had inspected it as well. I'm sure I'm on some kind of watch list now.
People are always saying TSA agents are idiots. Now, I don't have any experiences with them and wouldn't want to jump to conclusions, so I won't say that.
Then again. . . It does sound like they thought a Leatherman was some kind of black market sabotage device, so one may form an opinion or two based upon that :angel:
Post by: Joseph Gonzalez on August 08, 2016, 02:08:29 AM
Having recently moved from California, my first thought was "Oh s--t, I'm going to lose my favorite knife." I thought of taking it back to the car, but I didn't want to take the time to do so, so I figured I would just let them confiscate it. When I got to the front of the line, one of the officers asked me if I had any outside food or water. I said no and he waved me through. I asked him if he was going to say anything about the knife. "I noticed that," he said, "I was about to ask you where you got it." "You mean I can take it in?" I asked, "Back in California I'd be getting tackled right about now." He just laughed and said things were different in Texas. Then he asked me for the name of the knife maker and waved me through.
I really miss that "carry what you want, just be polite about it" attitude they had in Texas. Now I'm in living in California again and people freak out about knives. At least I'm making sure my 15 year-old daughter understands the value of a good knife. One of her birthday presents was a purple Spyderco Dragonfly. She puts it in her pocket whenever she goes to Grandma's (they both love gardening). She's also starting a Victorinox collection.
Post by: pfrsantos on November 04, 2016, 12:01:19 PM
Not just the one time, but every time I go through a checkpoint, when asked if I have any guns or knives I respond with a conspiratorial whisper of ,"what do you need?" Usually gets at least a chuckle out of the guards who have a rather mundane job. It did, once, result in a couple of deputies (who didn't share my sense of humor) pushing me against the wall and frisking me. :facepalm:
Well, what can I say...
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Post by: pfrsantos on November 04, 2016, 12:02:38 PM
Having flown in or out of all major US airports i know which ones are gonna hassle me more than the next. Minneapolis is by far is the most hard ass when it comes to baggage check and TSA checkpoint. MSP wouldn't let me go as i had an expired Texas drivers license so i had to go thru security all over again. Once the air sniffer picked up trace " whatever " on my Moab 10 sling bag, Once i got to get frisked in the red zone for no reason.
Chicago O'hare easy, Houston Bush easy, New Orleans missed a Vic Farmer and a zippo in my carry on, Hobby in Houston is super easy. LaGardia in NYC is a true biotch. Atlanta is a nightmare. I carried my wave on my hip by accident from Houston to Denver no problem. Now Denver coming back is brutal i guess from the weed smuggling back home.
Don't carry a backpack around Washing DC. Bag checks every 5 meters. Disneyworld has bag checks all militant style but no metal detectors . Some guy in front of us took his beer out of his bag and put it in his pockets. Talk about forced false security.
Major US!
:salute:
Post by: pfrsantos on November 04, 2016, 12:06:03 PM
Last time I was hit by a checkpoint, the skippy little bugger asked me "Sir, do you have any weapons on you?" It was the courthouse, so I was already indecently attired. I felt I could reply "Nope- I usually find them when I need them."
Broke his poor little brain.
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Also, I'm planning on get a pin with this (or similar):
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Post by: Corwyn on November 04, 2016, 12:18:09 PM
However I usually keep the survival kit with some toys for Geocaching.
I was exchanging planes in Berlin when they stop me.. this is a weapon... they point at my flashlight...
Batteries were dead so I took it apart to show them the bulb.. still they insisted it can be used as a mace.
In the end they let me keep it...
Honestly I'm not mad at them I'm mad at the silly Chinese putting silly strike bezels on everything (like a plastic edge would be of any use...)
It was one of these contraptions... didn't even know that was a strike bevel in the zoom lens until they pointed it out:
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Post by: Don Pablo on November 04, 2016, 12:27:53 PM
My security story? I had to take off my shoes, while my sister did not have to. Why? I mean, the only difference was that her runners were smaller than mine. :police: :rofl:
Did they think I was more likely to conceal a weapon in my shoes?
Post by: glenfiddich1983 on November 04, 2016, 12:41:29 PM
Post by: Grant Lamontagne on November 04, 2016, 02:02:13 PM
For those unfamiliar with Canadian Law, there is not now, nor has there ever been a license to carry a knife. :facepalm:
I also got trapped in O'Hare by a storm on my way home from SHOT in '08. In the confusion of trying to re-route thousands of passengers they seemed to have lost my suitcase. I ended up on a flight to Toronto the next morning (huge, long, messed up story there I won't go into now) where I went through Canadian Customs. Bear in mind, I'd been awake for roughly 36 hours by this point, and the Customs people have no sense of humor. Or decency. As I approached the counter I noticed the officer I was getting was an attractive female, and long experience has shown me that attractive females in uniform are either very nice or very nasty, with very few in the middle ground. She was a nasty one, demanding things from me that my exhausted brain had trouble keeping up with. Apparently she took it as a personal offence that I allowed the airline to lose my bag at my previous layover, and that I already knew they were lost. In her mind, no one should be told these things. :facepalm:
She saw my SOSAK T shirt and asked if I had anything in my lost luggage that might be considered dangerous and I told her that I had Swiss Army Knives in my bag. She asked if I had any on me, to which I responded no, and that even if I did have any when I left, I'd been through several security screenings since leaving my hotel, and any I did have would be long gone by then anyway. She responded by writing KNIVES in giant red letters across my boarding pass, and sent me for additional screening.
As I got to the next section I got this rather large, somewhat unattractive woman, ad now I had KNIVES written on my documentation, I figured I was in for a body cavity search. As it turned out, this woman was actually very pleasant, and even she wondered why the other one had written KNIVES on my boarding pass. I was so surprised by her decency I was unsure of how to react when she smiled and told me to go on ahead. I asked if this was a trick, if I was going to get ten feet away and she was going to sound the alarm and I was going to get tackled and she just laughed. I left very cautiously, still not sure I wasn't being set up.
That was probably the last time I have ever had issues with security in an airport. Nowadays, regardless of the weather outside I wear a light shirt, shorts and flip flops or sandals, and check a bag with any tools or anything even remotely dangerous looking in it. I also don't bring toiletries with me- I buy new ones when I arrive, then toss them when I leave. The only things I have on me (or my carry on) are my laptop and phone.
I totally disagree with this kind of treatment, but it is not a fight you will win in an airport, and it can cost you thousands of dollars and years of your life trying to straighten out even the slightest misunderstanding, and frankly, to me that is just not worth it. Never put your safety or well being in the hands of someone else.
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Post by: Etherealicer on November 04, 2016, 03:04:49 PM
In 2003 I did a flight around the world Zurich - San Francisco - Los Angeles - Auckland (NZ) - Hong Kong - Zurich
US - I had to take off my shoes and they were scanned for explosives. They didn't find any but learned that Swiss Cheese can have a lot more flavor than they are used to
NZ - They politely asked if they could clean and sterilize my hiking boots. Sure, wouldn't mind a polish either
HK - I had to walk through a thermal image corridor in order to find people with the flu. Sure thing, I had a sore throat and got picked out (luckily I had no fever).
CH - Well, what is the worry in Switzerland? Money! They asked if I have anything that needs to be taxed :D
Post by: Grant Lamontagne on November 04, 2016, 04:13:23 PM
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Post by: G-Dizzle on November 04, 2016, 05:28:48 PM
Post by: pfrsantos on November 04, 2016, 05:39:57 PM
Be careful with the last pic, pfrsantos, otherwise they may confiscate your brain. :facepalm: :facepalm:
My security story? I had to take off my shoes, while my sister did not have to. Why? I mean, the only difference was that her runners were smaller than mine. :police: :rofl:
Did they think I was more likely to conceal a weapon in my shoes?
Yeah?! Well, go ahead, I never use it anyway...
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Post by: pfrsantos on November 04, 2016, 05:40:34 PM
I don't have any interesting security stories, other than that they almost always pick me out of the line on airports to frisk me. Apparently I fit in some kind of profile ???
Young and cute?...
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Post by: pfrsantos on November 04, 2016, 05:48:08 PM
The order was held at the customs section in the central post office. They had the contents list on the outside of the parcel and someone had circled with a large red marker the S&W tactical pen line, with two underlines in "tactical".
Apparently, something tactical is worse than a knife, something to make a fire or something to strangle people with...
:facepalm:
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Post by: glenfiddich1983 on November 04, 2016, 05:58:40 PM
I don't have any interesting security stories, other than that they almost always pick me out of the line on airports to frisk me. Apparently I fit in some kind of profile ???
Young and cute?...
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Sounds plausible!
Post by: Kampfer on May 30, 2017, 10:09:04 PM
These "weapon free zones" really bother me, giving a false sense of security and creating a perfect killing zone for predators. :td:
Post by: Don Pablo on May 31, 2017, 12:31:25 AM
Am I thinking irrationally here? :ahhh
Post by: aluminated on May 31, 2017, 02:47:31 AM
Language is not kid-approved but the bit is hilarious.
I had a blue keychain LED light - NOT a laser - taken from me at a courthouse on the pretext that it "could be used to set off a device." The guard was correct, but I'd have to be within 5 feet of that device. Conveniently enough, the guards departed prior to my return. So went up to the next floor, found a supervisor, and had him pull the box of contraband to get my $5 toy back. Quite a few people did not have the same persistence I displayed.
Post by: Old Boy on May 31, 2017, 07:41:05 AM
You can disassemble it so she probably just saw the handle and not the brush.
Post by: Kampfer on May 31, 2017, 08:13:11 AM
From a security standpoint, I would have been a [understatement] little bit more concerned about the Espada than a teensy little Classic. [/understatement]I think you are.
Am I thinking irrationally here? :ahhh
The Classic tasted blood and my Espada never did.
Post by: ThePeacent on May 31, 2017, 07:45:42 PM
From a security standpoint, I would have been a [understatement] little bit more concerned about the Espada than a teensy little Classic. [/understatement]I think you are.
Am I thinking irrationally here? :ahhh
The Classic tasted blood and my Espada never did.
haha it's usually the smallest that bite the deepest :pok:
Post by: Vidar on June 01, 2017, 11:55:44 AM
Later I go back to my hotel. For some reason there is an enhanced full scale security check outside; armed guards and bomb dogs included. A hotel lady politely asks me if I have any of the items listed on their poster of things considered dangerous. And of course, on the poster between guns, bombs, and cans of Swedish surströmming, there is a knife icon.
So I take my shopping bag and just empty it right in front of her. Big knives everywhere! The hotel lady got big eyes and made a gasping sound, the security guards closed in way fast and too close for comfort, and generally tense mood there for a moment. Not being a chef didn't help either.. Finally the manager arrives, my knives ended up in the hotel safe for the rest of my stay. Note to self; next time bring out any knives slow and after explaining.
Weird mood there for a moment though; I worried a bit about becoming the action highlight of the week for those guards.
Post by: Don Pablo on June 01, 2017, 12:14:08 PM
Isn't that because you use them more often? :whistle:From a security standpoint, I would have been a [understatement] little bit more concerned about the Espada than a teensy little Classic. [/understatement]I think you are.
Am I thinking irrationally here? :ahhh
The Classic tasted blood and my Espada never did.
haha it's usually the smallest that bite the deepest :pok:
Post by: caninesapien on June 01, 2017, 12:49:45 PM
Flying back to the UK from Las Vegas a few years ago. The guy at passport control checks my passport/address details, then stops me and says "Sir, why did you come to the US?". This being the first time any of the security staff had asked me a question on that particular trip. I replied, "For a holiday." He replies "And you came to the US? You chose to come to the United States?" I was getting kind of nervous because I wasn't sure what he was getting at. "Yes, this is my first trip to the US." He checks my address details again, and says "I just don't know why you would come here...", then, in a booming voice, "BECAUSE YOUR COUNTRY MAKES THE BEST DAMN WHISKEY IN THE WORLD!" He slapped me on the shoulder and sent me through. Pretty strange!
Also, I recently flew back to the UK from Denver, CO. When we got back to our house, it was pretty late so we just threw our luggage into the room and crashed out. The next morning when I woke up, I unlocked my suitcase to unpack, and saw a very neat note explaining that the TSA had searched my bag. But the locks on my case were still intact! I thought the TSA broke locks open if they wanted to search? Or do they use some master key or something? Seems awfully courteous to unlock then re-lock my case after searching :-\
Post by: moonweasel on June 01, 2017, 12:59:27 PM
You got lucky and found a non lazy TSA luggage inspector, There are about 10 different master keys for various TSA approved locks. I guess he had them all, and close by.
Also, I recently flew back to the UK from Denver, CO. When we got back to our house, it was pretty late so we just threw our luggage into the room and crashed out. The next morning when I woke up, I unlocked my suitcase to unpack, and saw a very neat note explaining that the TSA had searched my bag. But the locks on my case were still intact! I thought the TSA broke locks open if they wanted to search? Or do they use some master key or something? Seems awfully courteous to unlock then re-lock my case after searching :-\
It is pretty common for them to just cut off the 'approved' locks.
Post by: dbnyc on June 01, 2017, 03:09:40 PM
I put my jacket through the x-ray machine and the x-ray operator stopped me after I walked through the metal detector "Is that a butterfly knife?" I had no idea what he was talking about so he showed me on the monitor, and I remembered the multitool and explained, took it out of the pocket and showed him and he waved me on through, no big deal just a multitool not a butterfly knife.
I broke the thing later, it's long gone now but I didn't lose it to security.