# Airlines & Confiscated items

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airlines-confiscated-items/467452>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 11, 2008, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airlines-confiscated-items/467452 "2008-10-11T09:38:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2008, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airlines-confiscated-items/467452/21 "2008-10-12T14:15:35Z")

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> [@chowder](#):
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> OK fair enough. I wasn’t aware that you could make explosives by mixing whisky with toothpaste.

To paraphrase **flodnak** –you can make explosives by mixing _fake_ whisky with _fake_ toothpaste.

Whether you can make explosives with fake **chowder** , I have no idea.

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**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2008, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airlines-confiscated-items/467452/22 "2008-10-12T16:41:04Z")

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> [@Green\_Bean](#):
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> To paraphrase **flodnak** –you can make explosives by mixing _fake_ whisky with _fake_ toothpaste.
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> Whether you can make explosives with fake **chowder** , I have no idea.

Well I have been known to go off with a loud roar, especially after a few pints of falling water mixed with a Chicken Rogan Josh;)

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**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2008, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airlines-confiscated-items/467452/23 "2008-10-12T23:19:35Z")

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> [@chowder](#):
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> Because, as I already said, I was told I could take them through if I checked them in with my suitcase./The security guys had already determined that I posed no threat by saying I could have the items provided I checked them in with my suitcase.

But they pose no threat then **because** they’re in your suitcase, and unavailable to you. That’s not the same as determining that they pose no threat if you carry them on.

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