TSA confiscates folding car key, calling it a "switchba

[antonioledesma]

"The Transportation Security Administration confiscated this man's folding Audi car key ($300 replacement cost) at Dallas/Ft. Worth. They claimed it was a 'switchblade.' If he hadn't had a spare key, he would have been stuck upon arriving with no car keys." (I have the same type of key for my car, and have brought it on planes dozens of times with no problem. -- Mark)

http://www.securityinfowatch.com/art...on=387&id=4568

now what???

[ZfrkS62]

fucking morons. I hope they are made to pay for that. Next thing you know, no one will be able to take their keys with them at all :roll: the illusion of safety :roll:

[gbg]

LOL

Don't ask me to visit the USA for some years... I experienced some terrible and humiliating experiences on their airports after the 9/11

nothing against the country though, because I love to travel there... it's just this crazy safety thing that has gone out of control

[jakaracman]

Morons. Fortunately, he's a lawyer and I hope he sues them good!
All this security shit has gone way over any reasonable limits ... It takes too long and has no menaning ...

[TransAm]

Originally Posted by gbg LOL Don't ask me to visit the USA for some years... I experienced some terrible and humiliating experiences on their airports after the 9/11

Me too mate, and I have a visa which states I work for a defence company. I still get the stupid questions and interrogation. I.e. I would consider myself part of the 'solution' to terrorism! Maybe they have been watching too much '24' and think I am the evil terrorist embedded in the system...

Their latest trick is to confiscate cigarette lighters. Last time I travelled I got through 4 of the damn things making a trip to the UK and back.

[Vansquish]

ROFLMAO...the funniest thing about this is I've got a couple of friends who drove across the border to Canada and were detained because one of them had brought his knife (which he carries everywhere) and it happened to be something like this : http://www.theknifeconnection.com/Im...g%20Knives.jpg with a spring-assisted blade. Apparently spring-assisted blades are illegal in Canada. So they told me this and when our RX8 came in a week later and had one of these "switchblade" keys, I started joking with them that I couldn't take the car to Canada for precisely that reason.

[loliea]

You can't have a cigarette lighter ... but you can have matches... :roll: .

Last time I took the plane they confiscated the cuticle nipper of my girl friend (2mm "blade") but I could board with my metallic pen that can easily used as a weapon...

[T-Bird]

Shit last time I was on a plane I didn't even go through traditional security they let me board with a Leatherman I had in my backpack from school. They seemed more concerned with my drafting pens.

[TransAm]

Originally Posted by T-Bird Shit last time I was on a plane I didn't even go through traditional security they let me board with a Leatherman I had in my backpack from school. They seemed more concerned with my drafting pens.

Please let us know which airport to avoid :shock:

[T-Bird]

Well I was getting on a plane with My Uncle who's an FAA Air Traffic Control Specialist so we entered the airport in a totally different area than normal and just had some guys check our stuff on a table then we walked up some steps and out a door into the United Terminal of O'hare. Oh believe me if this was normal security I would have been in trouble if it was seen, they would have taken it searched me then sent me on my way, gotta love being an american upper-middle class white kid. I honestly forgot it was even in there. If I new I was going through normal security I would have fully emptied my bag and checked everything I put in it.

[antonioledesma]

this security things have and always be spooky and very hard to understand.

I take a bus to see my girlfriend and some of the security guards are real assholes.
Once there was a kid about 17yo, he had a nail clipper that had a file and a small blade, and the security officer (a woman) let him pass with that. With the next passenger, the officer didn't allow a woman to carry on board her nail clipper (smaller in size)

the father of my girlfriend used to travel a lot in airplane and he had a little manicure set and his electric razor (he had to travel to europe, so after the landing most of the times he had to go to the HQ of the company), and sometimes they didn't allow him to carry his electric razor

[FoxFour]

About 3 months before 9/11 I left work to go pick up my Aunt at the airport. Arrive at the airport and proceed to go through the checkpoint with the TSA officials manning the metal detectors/ X ray machines and such. The TSA guy asks me to empty my pockets and place them in this little salad bowl that he is holding in his hands. I fumble in my right pocket, and take out all my keys and stuff that I have in there, including this big, yellow box-cutter that I placed in my pocket at work; which I totally forgot I still had. Nervously I place the big, yellow box-cutter in the bowl. The TSA official doesn't give it a second look. I go through the metal detector, satisfying them that I wasn't carrying anything that could be used as a weapon, and then he hands me back the bowl with my keys and that big, yellow box-cutter that is still laying atop everything else, literally screaming "VIOLATION"
I grab my box-cutter and head to the terminal.

[TransAm]

To be quite honest, I can't see one person with a nail file (assuming this person is a nutcase) being much of a threat to 300 other, sane, individuals who are likely to beat the crap out of him for any attempt.

Anyway, what about the glasses they give out in business and first class for wine with the meal? They've evidently not spent much time in pubs at closing time.

[Sick Boy]

Wich kind of person mistakes a car key with a knife?

[TransAm]

Originally Posted by Sick Boy Wich kind of person mistakes a car key with a knife?

Well, none of them look too bright to me.

You gets what you pays for...