Airport Security - Question

[GreenTeaFrapp]

Originally Posted by Peanut

I'm surprised people travel with snow globes in the first place, really.

Hell, I'm surprised people even buy snow globes!

[awildermode]

Originally Posted by hockeycop

My point is, Airport Screeners lack common sense and/or brains. Best advice is to get authorization from Transport Canada (as previously suggested), because you don't want some half wit taking your stuff when they don't really need to.

i once got stopped because there was "some sort of hook or knife" in my backpack. i could not 'help' the idiot go through my bag as i may blow up the airport...

anyway, it was a binder/folder with a metal logo on it...this logo



there is your "hook or knife". IDIOT!!!

[Rerun]

Originally Posted by hockeycop

Airport security have no authority to jail anyone, or perform cavity searches. If they come accross something suspected to be illegal, they call airport Police (who have brains and common sense).

On relatively rare occaisons, the airport security screeners will try to disarm police/immigration officers while they perform their duties... Needless to say, it doesn't go over very well. It's funny when the cops/immigration are told to go through metal detectors and the response is "WTF? Really? I have a mini bar of visible weapons on my belt, and I am allowed to have them".

My point is, Airport Screeners lack common sense and/or brains. Best advice is to get authorization from Transport Canada (as previously suggested), because you don't want some half wit taking your stuff when they don't really need to.

Airport Police? Brains and common sense?

Those are the last idiots you want to arrive on the scene. The airport police are the RCMP and the last I heard they still carry tasers and they're not shy about using them.

[photon]

Get one of these!


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[jolinar of malkshor]

Originally Posted by Rerun

Airport Police? Brains and common sense?

Those are the last idiots you want to arrive on the scene. The airport police are the RCMP and the last I heard they still carry tasers and they're not shy about using them.

Not in Calgary.

[jolinar of malkshor]

Question.

You can't take liquid water through airport security. Can you take frozen water through?

[Phanuthier]

Originally Posted by kermitology

I've hand carried a PIN diode assembly (which is a controlled good mind you) across the border.. twice!

Sometimes, you just confuse someone so much that they have no idea what to do with you, so they let you go.

Ha, I'd love to know the conversation there. A pin-whatnow?

[keenan87]

I love how people are so offended for them to check suspicious items. Seriously, it may be your Hot Wheels sticker so for next time they should let everything go because it might be a sticker?

Its the same people whining when something bad happens. Just let them do their jobs and be cooperative as I for one would like to have everyone fully checked that is on the same flight as me.

[Phanuthier]

Originally Posted by keenan87

I love how people are so offended for them to check suspicious items. Seriously, it may be your Hot Wheels sticker so for next time they should let everything go because it might be a sticker?

Its the same people whining when something bad happens. Just let them do their jobs and be cooperative as I for one would like to have everyone fully checked that is on the same flight as me.

...ok?

[Hemi-Cuda]

Originally Posted by awildermode

i once got stopped because there was "some sort of hook or knife" in my backpack. i could not 'help' the idiot go through my bag as i may blow up the airport...

anyway, it was a binder/folder with a metal logo on it...this logo



there is your "hook or knife". IDIOT!!!

how are they an idiot? they can't see the hot wheels text on their x-ray, just a piece of metal in the shape of a hook. are they not supposed to check suspicious items?

i'm thinking there was an idiot in this situation, but it wasn't the baggage checker

[lucky1]

They can do their jobs....but they dont have to be asshats while they are doing it....
which a large majority seem to be

[4X4]

Originally Posted by lucky1

They can do their jobs....but they dont have to be asshats while they are doing it....
which a large majority seem to be

While I have encountered ass hats while going through security, the vast majority are just people like you and me that are sick and tired of dealing with idiots at work. There's no excuse nowadays for showing up at security with a swiss army knife in your bag and expecting them to let it slide. We all know that 9/11 changed everything forever, so why does the general public have to make their jobs miserable?

I get through no problem because I don't joke with them, I look them in the eye, and I take off my belt beforehand and toss it in the crate... It's not hard. If there's something that resembles an object that could potentially gut a fish, they're not being unreasonable for opening the bag.

That said, I think that wilder was more mocking the fact that the person searched for the object and didn't recognize that it was a piece of aluminum stuck to a binder. Like he was digging deeper for some other, more nefarious object. At least, that's how I read it.

[Phanuthier]

Originally Posted by keenan87

I love how people are so offended for them to check suspicious items. Seriously, it may be your Hot Wheels sticker so for next time they should let everything go because it might be a sticker?

Its the same people whining when something bad happens. Just let them do their jobs and be cooperative as I for one would like to have everyone fully checked that is on the same flight as me.

oh nevermind to my post, i thought you were replying to mine (totally pissed the hot wheels post) and thought "wtf?"

haha sorry

[awildermode]

Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda

how are they an idiot? they can't see the hot wheels text on their x-ray, just a piece of metal in the shape of a hook. are they not supposed to check suspicious items?

i'm thinking there was an idiot in this situation, but it wasn't the baggage checker

it took the guy 15 minutes, and he pretty much laid out everything. all i had in the bag was a jacket, shirt, snacks, keys, some money, pens, and the binder. he went through it three times.

kept saying it was a "hook or knife"

Originally Posted by 4X4

That said, I think that wilder was more mocking the fact that the person searched for the object and didn't recognize that it was a piece of aluminum stuck to a binder. Like he was digging deeper for some other, more nefarious object. At least, that's how I read it.

yeah, pretty much. for the record, i was nice to the guy. offered to help, but i guess they think you can 'tamper with the evidence' if you touch anything.

when he found, i could tell he was relieved (as was i).

[hockeycop]

Originally Posted by keenan87

I love how people are so offended for them to check suspicious items. Seriously, it may be your Hot Wheels sticker so for next time they should let everything go because it might be a sticker?

Its the same people whining when something bad happens. Just let them do their jobs and be cooperative as I for one would like to have everyone fully checked that is on the same flight as me.

I have zero problem with them removing weapons and doing their jobs. I am one-hundred percent behind them on that. It's when they don't have a clue what they are really doing that gets under peoples skin. The hot-wheels sticker as appearing on an x-ray warrants a look, but not a 15 minute exam. Trying to take the weapons off of a cops belt doesn't make much sense either (trust me, I've seen this a few times).

[hockeycop]

Originally Posted by Rerun

Airport Police? Brains and common sense?

Those are the last idiots you want to arrive on the scene. The airport police are the RCMP and the last I heard they still carry tasers and they're not shy about using them.

I can't really comment on YVR because of what I do for a living, but in the situation we are talking about, the Airport Police would be your saviour (regardless of it being RCMP or other agency).

Please don't judge all Police Officers based on the actions of a few.

[GreenTeaFrapp]

Originally Posted by 4X4

I get through no problem because I don't joke with them, I look them in the eye, and I take off my belt beforehand and toss it in the crate... It's not hard.

I've never had an issue with wearing a belt through the scanner. While the belts I've worn through don't have big metal buckles, they do have a small metal buckle. Metal watches don't set it off either.

[You Need a Thneed]

Originally Posted by jolinar of malkshor

Question.

You can't take liquid water through airport security. Can you take frozen water through?

No, I would really doubt it. You can though, take as much liquid along as you want if you have a young child along and the liquids are in a diaper bag.

[Phaneuf3]

Originally Posted by GreenTeaFrapp

I've never had an issue with wearing a belt through the scanner. While the belts I've worn through don't have big metal buckles, they do have a small metal buckle. Metal watches don't set it off either.

The ones in canada don't seem that bad... the metal detectors in germany i've set off with only the metal button and fly on my shorts.

[kermitology]

Originally Posted by Phanuthier

Ha, I'd love to know the conversation there. A pin-whatnow?

Excuse me sir, what is this?

It's a switch.

A switch?

Yes.

Really?

Yes.

What does it switch?

High power radar for terrain mapping.

Uhhhh...

It's harmless.

OK sir, have a nice flight.