Similarly here, I forgot about my Spyderco pocket knife (much like this one) until after I got on board and was looking for something in my backpack and saw it there.
I’m glad TSA didn’t see it and confiscate it.
Another time I forgot my Swiss Army Knife. They flagged it and I had time to walk over to a Mail-It-Home kiosk. For $30 (somewhat pricey but worth it to me) I mailed it to myself and then went back through security. I’m glad I had the time and that option because the Swiss Army Knife I prefer has been discontinued.
Not intentionally. The last time I flew I realized after I was seated on the plane that I had not repacked all of my lotions and potions into the clear zipper bag, and had therefore not removed the bag and placed it in the tray outside my carry on.
Not one peep was made. Security theater, you say?
I did have a 2mm Allen (hex) wrench confiscated. And I wasn’t even flying. I was meeting my son, who was flying as an unaccompanied minor) at the gate.
All of them claimed they had this live ammo in their carry on bags when they departed the United States and it was not found by TSA security screenings.
This was long before 9/11, but once I went directly from camping to Flying, and it wasn’t until I was unpacking after returning back home, that I realized I still had a fishing filet knife with an 8 inch blade in a side pocket of my duffel bag carry on.
Some conference as a giveaway passed out Swiss Army knives. Yeah, right.
I wanted to see if I could keep it. (Only had carry on bags, of course.) So I put it just so and aligned next to something larger and metal. Got thru okay.
I took marijuana past the airport security check in 1978, years before the TSA existed. Which doesn’t count in terms of the OP, but anyway…). They actually had me empty my pockets because I had something metal that beeped and they found my marijuana, and then told me “Oh, we don’t care about that,” and let me on the plane. That was 1978 for you. You hadda be there.
I forgot the bag at my small regional airport and straight-up asked them if I could just leave it on the carousel. They were cool with it. YMMV in bigger airports, obviously.
Ammo is supposed to be in checked luggage, in secure containers intended to hold ammo (e.g. not loose, in a Zip-Loc bag). I seriously doubt they got on board with ammo in their carry ons.
It was before the TSA formation, but I flew from St. Louis to Ft. Lauderdale with a box of 9mm ammo in my carry-on bag. My wife found it when we unpacked in Florida. It had been through the x-ray machine. We did not bring it back with us.
I let my brother borrow my laptop bag once, and took it on a trip with me after I got it back. I went through security at the airports in Spokane and Minneapolis with it. On the way home, TSA in Logan found my brother’s 10" hunting knife and confiscated it.
And not supposed to be transported into a country where mere possession is illegal.
In each case the parties claim slight variations on the trope that their carry on bag is used to transport their firearm in the US. They took out the firearm but missed some ammo. With one stray round I can believe it was an oversight, but missing a box of 50 rounds seems unlikely.
There is about one case every six weeks or so. If even a fraction of them are truthful then it doesn’t bode well for the TSA missing so much so frequently.
