We love you, Homeland Security

[nonnihil]

It's amazing what you find when you clean out your pack. It appears that, unbeknownst to me, I have been travelling with a utility knife (aka, "box-cutter") in one of my pieces of standard carry-on luggage for the last decade

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[marphod]

I discovered a few trips ago, that I'd been regularly tavelling with a lighter (Zippo) since 2002, and banned in any luggage since 2004. It was cleverly hidden in my suit's inner-coat pocket.

Some_kitten made a number of trips with a buck mini-tool (knife, awl, scissors, etc.) on her key ring, before someone finally noticed when returning from DC.

I love the effectiveness of our 'homeland' 'security' office.

[anonymous]

Sometime after 9/11, while cruising through the Greensboro, NC, airport, I managed to get a speedloader for a revolver through security. Twice. I'd forgotten I had it in my pocket until I was in NC, and then I chanced taking it through security again.

Six rounds of +P hollowpoint ammo for a .357 magnum. Completely useless on their own, mind you, but still enough to cause the lovely people at DHS to go absolutely nuts.

Airport security's as useless as tits on a boar hog. We should arm everyone getting on a plane. That'd be a much more effective security measure.

[tla]

I must know who, other than my father, uses the phrase "useless as tits on a boar hog". I must.

[robbbbbb]

Oh, uh, right. That's me. I hate it when I don't realize that I put up an anonymous post. Sigh.

[jdm314]

It's not that the extra security measures in airports are inconvenient, or that they're ineffective. That fact that they're both is what bothers me.

Well actually, the ineffectiveness bothers me in and of itself. This is a serious matter.