You could shove the ammo up your butt no problem, but the rest are kinda “edgy,” if you catch my drift. Makes removal later a bit “awkward” to say the least. Besides, if several people ping the metal detector and they all have indications of metal in the same area, I think even the brain-dead morons of the TSA will figure it out.
I’m certain this would be sucessful, as long as they tried it more than once. I don’t think shoving anything up your but would be necessary.
The Things He Carried
Atlantic Monthly journalist openly carries contraband items through airport security, such as box curtters, knives and scissors of various sorts, multitools, liquids and pastes of various sorts, and my own personal favorites, a Hezbollah flag, which he helpfully pointed out to security, and a t-shirt reading “Osama Bin Laden, hero of Islam.” He also passed security with forged boarding passes.
You know, I used to always have a lot of respect for TSA people. I thought they had good training, had to be somewhat intelligent and proud of their country, etc… but after having flown a few times in the last few years… I have found that most of them are really rude, if not flat out mean and vapid. I am always overtly friendly and smile and thank them, and most of the time they couldn’t care less. If they hate their jobs so much, they should just quit. Are they instructed to act like assholes? Is this part of the job?
At least we know why he’s out of bubblegum. Probably confiscated that too. :mad:
drewtwo99, this is antecdotal, but my husband, who is in the Air Force, used to work with a guy who tried to take part of some antique gun onto a plane. I seem to remember it being in his checked luggage, but that may be wrong. He got into all kinds of trouble for it, and was reprimanded at work as well.
I’m also pretty sure that you’re not allowed to take a replica of a gun onto a plane, either. I doubt you’d get a water gun through security. I know they confiscated a mostly-empty, see-through 3.5 oz bottle of lotion from me a while back. Bastards. I liked that lotion.
I have to ask what that “AK-47” is that looks like a giant bottle opener. Second down on the left, below the “M-16”, above the “AK-47” machine gun and to the left of the “AK-47” sub-machine gun.
It’s my understanding that certain department of defense and other federal law enforcement and military intelligence types are still allowed to carry firearms in their carry-on bags, or even travel fully armed, with the right paperwork. Depending on what ‘paperwork’ the traveler in the OP claims to have he might have authorization to carry a firearm in his carry on bag. I’m not sure how it works in Canada.
FN P90Personal Defense Weapon.
The latest in a long line of AK-47 clones. 
On xray at the airport one day I saw a pistol cross my screen. I stopped the conveyer and had someone check the bag. Turned out some woman was taking some antique guns home with her. She didn’t understand why she either had to check them or leave them with us to dispose of.
I miss all the fun at YYC! I’m just going to get grouchy AC flight attendants when I fly on Sunday; assuming I can fly on Sunday.
And here’s me double and triple checking to see if I can bring my crochet hook on board…
I flew with knitting needles about 3 years ago with no worries at all. Crochet hooks and knitting needles are officially ‘OK’ on that listy thing they give out. (Although it did give the TSA pause while she tried to figure out what they were).
My brother in law is a federal leo. He is allowed to carry a firearm on a planes in the US. He does not use the same security line as the general public, he goes through security at a secondary location. He is still not allowed to have more than 3 oz of liquid in his carry-on bags.
{Checks list}Yup, yup, those look about right.
They always take my fruit when I cross the border. Bastards indeed. :mad:
If you don’t want to have your fruit taken when you cross the border, then don’t take fruit with you when you cross the border.
Sorry, seen too many of those commercials lately. (“If you don’t want to pay chequing fees, then don’t pay chequing fees.”)
Seriously, the US does not allow travellers to import agricultural products. Cite. Which is kind of ironic, because a lot of agricultural products we buy in Canada either come from the US originally, or at least transited the US: all kinds of produce, for example, or what we cannot grow in season. But, rules are rules, I guess.
25 years before 9/11, on the way back from Disney, airport security pulled a 3 inch long plastic model of a flintlock pistol (the bottom right Glock on the journalist’s guide) out of one of our carryon bags & made us check it. Luckily we had already packed the full size wood & metal flintGlocks in the luggage.
I find this ironically hilarious.
Can I piggyback on this real quick? I have an antique metal elephant that weighs maybe 5 lbs and is about 10" tall that I want to bring to my sister, who I’m flying to visit next week. I was planning on just taking a carry-on for the trip. Are they going to let me bring this through, or throw a fit about a bludgeoning device or some crap?
Actually they are “officially ok but they can be confiscated at any time in the infinite discretion of TSA agents to halt the spread of crafts.”
The AK-47 & Glock diagram was lolz. I especially liked the Bang! toy gun (“Glock”).
Is it an Arabian elephant? “Please step this way.”
Ooh, that fer sure one you don’t want to shove up your ass.