I've literally brought a pickaxe by accident. But one time I was trying to bring a fish, and had a next to impossible time trying to get them to agree that water was a "life sustaining liquid" as defined by their exemptions on the 3oz rule wrt to fish.
What exactly are they trying to prevent with the liquid prohibition, anyway?
Liquid explosives, it was inspired by the 2006 plot to bring down a transatlantic flight.
This is a pretty cynical viewpoint but I agree. It’s clear that TSA doesn’t do much. Someone I know has acidentially brought a pocketknife through security multiple times without it being found. They keep it in my backpack as a regular item and just forgot to take it out.
Freudian slip? =P
depends on if you treat TSA like massage parlors: you know you are paying less than $100 bucks but you still aren't sure what you are going to get
This is a pretty cynical viewpoint but I agree. It’s clear that TSA doesn’t do much. Someone I know has acidentially brought a pocketknife through security multiple times without it being found. They keep it in my backpack as a regular item and just forgot to take it out.
I've literally brought a pickaxe by accident. But one time I was trying to bring a fish, and had a next to impossible time trying to get them to agree that water was a "life sustaining liquid" as defined by their exemptions on the 3oz rule wrt to fish.
That reminds me of the time, sometime before the statute of limitations expired, I was coming back to the US from Montreal with a bunch of illegal raw milk cheese in my carry-on. No problem.
If I had to guess about the military, it would be a combination of the fact that doing it wrong gets people killed, a constant need to optimize, improve, or respond to changing conditions, and a lack of sophistication to tell the two apart.
It's more because military is a jobs program for unemployables
It's fascinating how the security theatre has gotten so big that now it basically just rolls forward under its own momentum. It's been around long enough that people accept it as normal, it serves no other purpose than to employ the unemployable and fill contractors' coffers, and it seems that no entity is able to stop or dismantle it.
This is a pretty cynical viewpoint but I agree. It’s clear that TSA doesn’t do much. Someone I know has acidentially brought a pocketknife through security multiple times without it being found. They keep it in my backpack as a regular item and just forgot to take it out.
I had an emergency pocket knife at the bottom of my bag -- I totally forgot about it, I went through 2 US airports and 2 European airports before it was found in London.
Global entry/TSA pre-check is the best $100 you can spend (or not since the application fee is covered by a lot of premium credit cards) Keep shoes, keep laptop in bag, keep jacket on, way shorter line...I’m simulateously happy that not everyone is doing it and dumbfounded why anyone who travels more than a few times a year wouldn’t have it by now.
I don't buy precheck out of principal. You shouldn't have to pay extra for a less invasive security experience
If you have a decent credit card it will provide you tsa precheck coverage as a 'benefit' and it is valid for 5 years
"While the CT pilot program didn’t show reduced wait times at participating airports, the agency is expecting the technology will speed up lines as passengers and staffers get used to the new processes. "
So, they just agreed to $97 million worth of new technology with no proven benefit. Great.
This CDC study[0] looked into that question, the answer was inconclusive (with some workers receiving a higher annual dose than is allowed, while most received a safe dosage). The problem seems to be malfunctioning scanners. [0] https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/hhe/reports/pdfs/2003-0206-3067.pd...
Isn’t that what dosimeters are supposed to help detect?
That's what was inconclusive.
> Given the strengths and weaknesses of this study, the need for a routine radiation dosimetry program for TSA screeners can neither be justified nor refuted at this time.
I assumed above that people would read the link before responding.
I've literally brought a pickaxe by accident. But one time I was trying to bring a fish, and had a next to impossible time trying to get them to agree that water was a "life sustaining liquid" as defined by their exemptions on the 3oz rule wrt to fish.
What exactly are they trying to prevent with the liquid prohibition, anyway?
It's fascinating how the security theatre has gotten so big that now it basically just rolls forward under its own momentum. It's been around long enough that people accept it as normal, it serves no other purpose than to employ the unemployable and fill contractors' coffers, and it seems that no entity is able to stop or dismantle it.
This is a pretty cynical viewpoint but I agree. It’s clear that TSA doesn’t do much. Someone I know has acidentially brought a pocketknife through security multiple times without it being found. They keep it in my backpack as a regular item and just forgot to take it out.
I used to keep a rather large pocket knife clipped to the lighter pocket in my jeans. I accidentally took it through security a few times. Once when I was on the plane I was looking at it thinking, “Holy shit, how is this possible?” I looked it up and it turns out the scanners actually have a hard time seeing objects on your hip because of the way they scan. They are good at seeing objects in front of you or behind you, but an object perfectly aligned with the plane of your hips will often be missed.