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Some years ago I saw the TSA agents take a 4 oz bottle of perfume from some lady ahead of me in line, and before I was even through they were already arguing about who was going to keep it. Forums poster qirex told a similar story in yospos about seeing some agents steal a nice watch from a young black kid. They're all just rent a cop crooks
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Sagebrush posted:Some years ago I saw the TSA agents take a 4 oz bottle of perfume from some lady ahead of me in line, and before I was even through they were already arguing about who was going to keep it. Also the lots of confiscated items on eBay and at gun shows or flea markets. Usually knives in a box but sometimes various travel bags and small electronics. I'm sure some of them aren't actually TSA but with the volume I see, I feel like there may be a grain of truth to it.
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Apr 12, 2023 16:37
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knuthgrush posted:Also the lots of confiscated items on eBay and at gun shows or flea markets. Usually knives in a box but sometimes various travel bags and small electronics. I'm sure some of them aren't actually TSA but with the volume I see, I feel like there may be a grain of truth to it. Occasionally TSA auctions show up on Ebay. Its mostly knives and multitools. A coworker was looking at a box of multitools as you could get a decent Leatherman or Gerber one for cheap.
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Apr 12, 2023 17:25
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knuthgrush posted:Also the lots of confiscated items on eBay and at gun shows or flea markets. Usually knives in a box but sometimes various travel bags and small electronics. I'm sure some of them aren't actually TSA but with the volume I see, I feel like there may be a grain of truth to it. It's hosed up, though I have no problem with people who bring guns to airports permanently losing them.
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Apr 12, 2023 17:25
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I specifically bought a Leatherman multi-tool without a blade. I don't fly very often, but I only was stopped and had it looked at once. It's supposed to be allowed on planes, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was taken from me at some point, anyway.
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Apr 12, 2023 17:27
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It's funny when airport security visibly freak out over false alarms, like apparently clif bars are the right density to look like C4 on the xray (or something) or maybe there was an advisory about someone plotting to eat ten protein bricks and drop a huge poo poo on the plane
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Apr 12, 2023 17:46
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I've never really seen the agent freak out but it's probably a factor of your own nervousness and skin color. As a white business traveller we either BSing with each other as they unveil the offending protein bar or violently rolling our eyes together at their supervisor having to come check why the bomb precursor sample machine is giving false positives again.
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Apr 12, 2023 18:01
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silentsnack posted:It's funny when airport security visibly freak out over false alarms, like apparently clif bars are the right density to look like C4 on the xray (or something) or maybe there was an advisory about someone plotting to eat ten protein bricks and drop a huge poo poo on the plane Way back before 9/11, my dad would travel for business fairly often. He once packed his mechanical alarm clock and an entire package of oreos (you know, the ones with like 3-4 rows of cookies in a tray). Apparently that does NOT look good on an xray.
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Apr 12, 2023 18:04
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My only experience with TSA in the states was only a year or two after 9/11 so it seemed like everyone was getting the full works, they found a physics textbook in my luggage (I had a test the day after I was due to get home to the UK) when they opened it up in front of me to swab it for bombs or drugs or whatever and immediately flipped out and grilled the gently caress out of me about why I had a physics textbook. I don’t know how that was a threat but they sure weren’t happy about it being there! I’m very white and this was before I got covered in tattoos and piercings, so I can’t even blame it on profiling.
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Apr 12, 2023 18:10
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History Comes Inside! posted:My only experience with TSA in the states was only a year or two after 9/11 so it seemed like everyone was getting the full works, they found a physics textbook in my luggage (I had a test the day after I was due to get home to the UK) when they opened it up in front of me to swab it for bombs or drugs or whatever and immediately flipped out and grilled the gently caress out of me about why I had a physics textbook. Can't make a bomb if you don't understand physics
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Apr 12, 2023 18:18
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I fly about once a month and have never seen anything memorable happen at security screening. i'm sure some stupid poo poo happens but that's inevitable when humans are involved in the process, especially at the scale required for the tens of thousands of people flying every day.
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Apr 12, 2023 18:24
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fuckers made me throw away my deoderant last time I flew 
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Apr 12, 2023 18:30
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teemolover42069 posted:fuckers made me throw away my deoderant last time I flew Next time be like Heimo. 
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Apr 12, 2023 18:32
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5TonsOfFlax posted:Way back before 9/11, my dad would travel for business fairly often. He once packed his mechanical alarm clock and an entire package of oreos (you know, the ones with like 3-4 rows of cookies in a tray). Apparently that does NOT look good on an xray. I once flew with one of these toys as a gift:  Inside the can is a battery, a motor with an offset weight, and an angled tilt switch, all set in styrofoam. You tilt it in a special way to turn it off and then carefully set it down, and the next time it's picked up the tilt switch triggers the motor to start shaking and it startles you. Good joke. Everybody laugh. So on x-ray, this looks like a metal can containing a battery, some wires, a trigger switch, and some other electronics, all surrounded by a molded polymer. The TSA lady was NOT happy about it.
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Apr 12, 2023 18:55
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History Comes Inside! posted:My only experience with TSA in the states was only a year or two after 9/11 so it seemed like everyone was getting the full works, they found a physics textbook in my luggage (I had a test the day after I was due to get home to the UK) when they opened it up in front of me to swab it for bombs or drugs or whatever and immediately flipped out and grilled the gently caress out of me about why I had a physics textbook. Are you a little girl and was the airport full of aliens with colds and improvising workout routines on the furnishings?
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Apr 12, 2023 18:55
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Sagebrush posted:the next time it's picked up the tilt switch triggers the motor to start shaking and it startles you. But Fight Club taught me that the TSA is used to dealing with vibrators.
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Apr 12, 2023 19:23
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teemolover42069 posted:fuckers made me throw away my deoderant last time I flew The rules are just so stupid. Perfume? Banned. Lighter? Just don't burn the plane down with it thanks And then there's the ahole shoe bomber that still has us taking our shoes off in the line 15 years later
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Apr 12, 2023 19:26
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getting TSA PreCheck is so worth it. About $90 for five years, and it's an x-ray machine and a metal detector, don't need to remove shoes or belts or take your laptop out, and the line is always super short and fast.
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Apr 12, 2023 19:33
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holtemon posted:And then there's the ahole shoe bomber that still has us taking our shoes off in the line 15 years later That happened while I was visiting Poland. By the time we were flying back, every country except for Poland stopped completely freaking out. Poland required us to check everything, zero carry ons. This included passing through security and buying something in a store in the secure area; in the trash before getting on the plane. That was a long loving 10 hours.
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Apr 12, 2023 19:34
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I don’t understand how the precheck thing works Is it literally just “you paid us so you’re probably not a terrorist” because that seems even too lol capitalism for the USA
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Apr 12, 2023 19:35
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I think it’s supposed to cover a background check but I’m sure they don’t even bother.
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Apr 12, 2023 19:41
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History Comes Inside! posted:I don’t understand how the precheck thing works Signup includes being fingerprinted and a background check, so it's more "You haven't blown yourself up yet, so you're probably not a terrorist"
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Apr 12, 2023 19:42
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yeah you have to be fingerprinted and give all your details, and then the DHS does whatever federal background check stuff they do. I'm guessing that it also includes ongoing monitoring so whatever stuff the FBI or DHS or NSA/CIA is getting in their surveillance networks is cross checked against the DHS database yay surveillance state, but hey, it makes flying be like pre 9/11 so i highly recommend it 
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Apr 12, 2023 19:46
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Cthulu Carl posted:Are you a little girl and was the airport full of aliens with colds and improvising workout routines on the furnishings?
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Apr 12, 2023 19:47
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KoRMaK posted:thank you i thought it was 12 monkeys at first but knew that couldn't be the right movie Airport security in 12 Monkeys is actually horrible, what with failing to prevent a global pandemic. Which, now that I think about it...
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Apr 12, 2023 19:52
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History Comes Inside! posted:I don’t understand how the precheck thing works "We have determined via background check and other methods that you are statistically unlikely to do something that will get the program canceled. We have also made the determination that we no longer require MM wave scans of your junk, unless and until the quantity of piercings in said junk sets off the metal detector."
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Apr 12, 2023 20:14
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DandyLion posted:C'mon man, that's not entirely true. I can’t believe that you would forget their dogged determination to grope as many people as they can in a day. silentsnack posted:It's funny when airport security visibly freak out over false alarms, like apparently clif bars are the right density to look like C4 on the xray (or something) or maybe there was an advisory about someone plotting to eat ten protein bricks and drop a huge poo poo on the plane Nitrogen is nitrogen.
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Apr 12, 2023 20:16
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Horse rescued after earthquake in Turkey. https://i.imgur.com/3fAK7sX.mp4
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Apr 12, 2023 20:17
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The real question is why the gently caress TSA Clear exists when TSA precheck already exists?
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Apr 12, 2023 20:19
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Bird in a Blender posted:The real question is why the gently caress TSA Clear exists when TSA precheck already exists? Clear is not a TSA program, it's a private company approved by DHS and is document related. You would still need TSA Precheck if you have Clear. Otherwise you will go through the regular entry line kinda defeating the purpose.
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Apr 12, 2023 20:25
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Bird in a Blender posted:The real question is why the gently caress TSA Clear exists when TSA precheck already exists? I don't know if there's now something branded TSA Clear, but Clear itself is (or was?) a private for-profit company that had somehow weaseled its way into airports and I think may in fact have been founded before PreCheck started. So they're probably pissed as hell that PreCheck came into existence, but good, gently caress 'em, they charged some absurd fee like $100 a month for people to skip the line and PreCheck is doing the right thing by cutting the knees off the middleman and preventing an inflationary market. Huh I wonder what would happen if that same model were applied to healthcare. efb
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Apr 12, 2023 20:28
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If you have both Precheck and Clear you can sometimes skip the requirement to take off your mask to check against photo ID. It’s not reliable though.
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Apr 12, 2023 21:10
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Clear is for your identity / document check. Precheck is for bag and body screening. You can use both. I do but only because my credit card pays for both. I wouldn't have Clear otherwise (but I would keep Precheck). The value of Clear really depends on how long the lines are for the ID check at your airport.
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silentsnack posted:It's funny when airport security visibly freak out over false alarms, like apparently clif bars are the right density to look like C4 on the xray (or something) or maybe there was an advisory about someone plotting to eat ten protein bricks and drop a huge poo poo on the plane I flew out of Philly last month for a strongman comp and had all my gear on my carryon since I didn't want it to get lost and my god between the liquid chalk and the tacky I ended up getting the full interrogation and pat down. Also trying to explain to a 70 year old woman what a lifting belt was and why I had to have it with me was fun
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https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rt0q6xCUOt1r0uzl6.mp4 https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rt0qa3Pv3q1r0uzl6.mp4
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Apr 12, 2023 21:45
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the Soviets just made a guy do it. Same failure mode, too.
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V1V4 la Revolution!
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Cheese looks like c4 bricks according to a TSA agent at the Madison airport. However I'm not leaving Wisconsin without cheese.
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Methylethylaldehyde posted:"We have determined via background check and other methods that you are statistically unlikely to do something that will get the program canceled. We have also made the determination that we no longer require MM wave scans of your junk, unless and until the quantity of piercings in said junk sets off the metal detector." Precheck also doesn't really get you out of any of the screening measures; you still have to go through the metal detector and get your bags x-rayed. You can just keep your shoes and belt on while you do it and you get a special line which may or may not be shorter than the peasant class line.
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Having recently flown from Denver to Cleveland, the pre-check line was about 1/50th the size of the common line. Pre-check processing time was 5 minutes, common line processing time was an hour and a half.
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