Registered: Aug 2001
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Just opened my suitcase (I'm in a hotel in Tampa) and there's a note from TSA saying they searched my suitcase (they do it to all the luggage at the local airport, I think) and they packed it up way neater than it was. All my shirts are neatly folded and the pressure in the case has pressed them all nice for me. Sweet.

My tax dollars, doing useful work.

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Registered: Apr 2004
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You're lucky I don't work for them. You'd be looking like you slept in a cardboard box wearing anything I repacked.

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Registered: Apr 2003
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Ive had this happen a bunch. Pretty neat huh? They really do fold everything very nicely...and at first youre like WTF! and then you get to the bottom of the bag and see its all ok.

edit: also they dont do it to every bag, just random ones.

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Registered: Mar 2004
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I'm going to Florida for Thanksgiving. What can I carry on? Anything? A bottle of water? A book? A small lit incendiary device?

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Your cunt is a wmd, you'll have to leave it behind.

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Weapon of mouse destruction?

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Weapon of MALE destruction.

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Well, it sure ain't weapon of muscular destruction.

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weapon of muscular deflation?

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Originally posted by Mordecai
weapon of muscular deflation?

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You fucking ruin poetry.

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A poet I am not.

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Originally posted by ignatz mouse
I'm going to Florida for Thanksgiving. What can I carry on? Anything? A bottle of water? A book? A small lit incendiary device?

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Registered: Mar 2004
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Thanks for answering seriously, Cruise. I'm not considering a cuntectomy any time soon. What about my purse and my cell phone?

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Originally posted by ignatz mouse
Thanks for answering seriously, Cruise. I'm not considering a cuntectomy any time soon. What about my purse and my cell phone?

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Originally posted by Cruise Director
If you've got specific questions, PM me.

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TO YOUR ATTENTION!!!!
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Originally posted by Smug Git
Just opened my suitcase (I'm in a hotel in Tampa) and there's a note from TSA saying they searched my suitcase (they do it to all the luggage at the local airport, I think) and they packed it up way neater than it was. All my shirts are neatly folded and the pressure in the case has pressed them all nice for me. Sweet.

My tax dollars, doing useful work.

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disgusting

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I would call TSA and say your pot is missing. Then they would give you free pot.
That would rule.

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I just got off a plane a couple hours ago. Everything is mostly as it was back before the whole "OMG JUICE IS A BOMB!" thing, except you can't bring outside food into the terminal, and the whole put your toiletries in a baggie deal (the TSA website has good information, though I'd check the airports you're starting from and ending at just to see, they tend to vary. For example, there were some folks with Mike's Pastries boxes at the terminal in Logan). Fortunately, despite my copious use of beauty products, I can get by without them, and I check everything but my magazine*. The hassle of carrying something just isn't worth it, even though their searches aren't really that invasive, actually.

*Cosmo, in case you were wondering. I'd not get caught dead with a Seventeen these days.

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a guy i work with got the full search because he had his analyzer mic in his carry on. he also had some bnc to rca "bullets" he almost didn't get to fly

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Registered: Jul 2000
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I fly a lot, what is weird is that nothing is consistent. In Detroit I go through the puffer machine if I end up in the line that has it. In San Francisco you go through it if you were randomly picked to have a red S stamped a thousand times on your boarding pass. Then they take you behind a wall and eventually have to sit in a chair with no shoes (I haven't done this, but one of my friends had to when we all flew recently).

In Detroit my belt doesn't set off the metal detector, in San Francisco it sometimes does.

Sometimes you take your shoes off sometimes you don't (I used to make it a point to leave them on unless I was asked to remove them. I figured most people in front of me are just doing what they see people do or what they think they need to do. I don't really want to walk on a floor with no shoes where everyone else is too. Lately it seems more standard and I want to get through as quickly as possible, so I throw my shoes and jacket in a tub, my lap top in another and my bag on its own).

In New York a TSA guy at the x-ray machine at the check-in counter shouted out my name. I went over and he asked for my luggage lock combination (that was back when I bothered to lock it). I gave it to him and he opened my bag. I stood there watching and he stopped what he was doing, looked at me like he was annoyed and said "You may go." So I left and went to my gate.

In San Francisco, my carry on looked weird to the xray person and she signaled someone. The guy asked if it was my bag and then asked me to come with him to another table where he looked through my bag in front of me.

One of my friends recently nearly missed a plane because she had make-up (which was under the allowed size and was allowed to keep after an argument).

I used to get the TSA card in my bag nearly every time I flew, but lately it is just a TSA hologram sticker on the airline's bag tag. I thought that meant they'd rummaged through my stuff but maybe not.

I am an eye drop addict and I took them on the planes throughout the liquid embargo. They were always in my pocket and nobody ever asked about them.

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