blueovalz Posted March 25, 2003 Share Posted March 25, 2003 Well, the TSA finally screwed me on one of my many flights (over the passed couple of years) this weekend. For years I've had a key chain that was a miniature crescent wrench (about 3" long, functional, but just the same, a toy). It has passed all airport inspections until this weekend, when they confiscated it (read "stole" it). Yep, I hate to admit it, but my plan was to disassemble the aircraft while it was at the gate, using this "tool" (I hope someone is listening in). What pisses me off more than anything else is that this 1) This was as a gift, so it had sentimental value, 2) I have no means of recovering it back from these morons, 3) the TSA response was "you can check it if you want". "Oh, Right! I'll just go back through that 100-yard line of people waiting to check their bags in, and then wait another 20 minutes to get through you clowns again", I thought (the plane was boarding in 30 minutes at this point). 4) What ever happened to using discretion? "You want us to make the plane safer don't you" was one of their many replies to what became a controlled "fit" on my part. All I could think was, yeah, a baboon could.... well, you get my point without stepping on toes here. Reminds me of when I was an Air Traffic Controller. My chief was an anal retentive twit, that didn't know what to do if it wasn't written in black and white in an OPS manual (and it was a sight to see him do his minimum 1 hour of "traffic time" required each month). I guess that's why he was promoted to "chief" and became a government icon. Now to return you to your regularly scheduled program. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest livewire23 Posted March 25, 2003 Share Posted March 25, 2003 [sarcasm] I feel so much safer knowing that they're taking away mini-wrenches and keeping terrorists from, err... dismantling the seats in the plane... Its also nice to know I won't be, umm... wrenched to death mid-flight. [/sarcasm] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsommer Posted March 26, 2003 Share Posted March 26, 2003 Terry, This will steam you... :flamedevil: Last month my girlfriend an I flew out of Little Rock to New Orleans to go on a cruise. We boarded in LR, (gate security) connected in Houston, got on a cruise ship,(more security), got back on the plane flying out of NO,(security) Houston, land in LR. As the plane was approching the gate I ask her for the car keys so I can get the car. She starts digging through her purse and whips out a SWISS ARMY KNIFE!!! One of those big ones. All those check point and they NEVER caught it!!! : Shezzzz!!! We also have something in common I too was a controller however in the Army. Chiefs haha go back to your hole buddy and let the real controllers do their job!!! ds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CruxGNZ Posted March 26, 2003 Share Posted March 26, 2003 Here's one thing I don't understand, why is it that I had to strip down to just my shirt, pants and socks for security reasons when I left Vegas a few months ago (I should mention that I wear rings, watch, neclace, ect. WHAT A PAIN IN THE @SS!!), then they opened up my carry on and fiddled with something in there (didn't find anything missing though) proceed to get on the plane, then landed in Pheonix where I was able to buy a finger nail clippers in one of the stores inside the terminal and bring this on with me for my next flight to Milwaukee? I was told that even finger nail clippers were to be confiscated before you board a plane. I do not understand the reasoning behind taking small objects like Terry's small wrench. Seriously, if there was someone on board that wanted to take controll of the plane, I know that there is a number of objects that are already on the plane that could be used. Why don't I see Airlines making the inside of planes safer instead of pestering the customer about the small items that we like to carry with us? How about this... I know that women in self defense classes are taught to use car keys as a defense weapon in case someone was to jump them. Now how many of you have brought your car keys with you while traveling on an airplane so you could drive your car home when you got back? Seriously, who is calling the shots about these items that aren't allowed on an airplane? !M! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Thurem Posted March 26, 2003 Share Posted March 26, 2003 They are all IDIOTS, just try your best to stay out of their way. They confiscate GI joe weapons, sure makes me feel a lot safer, EH? Thure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavyZ Posted March 26, 2003 Share Posted March 26, 2003 Unbelievable. Wait, I also had to take my shoes off, etc, for a domestic flight and was also chosen chosen for one of their 'special' random inspections. I have all the luck... Davy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest livewire23 Posted March 26, 2003 Share Posted March 26, 2003 I like the story about the woman who ran past security out in what was it, oakland airport? Of course they stopped all boarding and chased after her. chance had it that she managed to get on the plane anyway. Of course they stopped all takeoffs though. But three planes still took off anyway. Wanna bet whcih plane she was on? yup, that's right, she flew. I can't remember whether they picked her up at the other end. So much for security. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavyZ Posted March 26, 2003 Share Posted March 26, 2003 Yep, they got her at the other end and probably slapped her with a few fines for what she did. I wonder if they would give her mailing address to all those poor folks that had to endure the delay on her account? Do you think their letters would be ones of understanding? Me neither. Jail time for her I say. Davy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spdsk8r Posted March 26, 2003 Share Posted March 26, 2003 Here's a good one. Last October our whole family flew out to San Diego, from Michigan, to attend my sons graduation from Marines bootcamp. There were six in our party. My daughter, her fiance, my mother-in-law, father-in-law, my wife and I. "Every" security point we traversed through, guess who was pulled out for complete search. You guessed it, my mother-in-law. Yah, this early seventies grannie sure looks like a terrorist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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