TSA has an 80% failure rate during inspections.
Everyone knows the TSA is useless. I know people who have accidentally carried fixed blade knives through security without getting stopped.
But you can be damn sure they’ll catch that 5oz bottle of shampoo you’ve got.
BTW: your link is broken because you have a 9 at the beginning
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I brought a 3-inch credit card blade (acquired at a trade show, with some tech company logo on it) through the airport four consecutive times without even realizing it.
I found it while packing for another trip, and I decided to gut my overly-thick wallet and realized that I’d been carrying it around everywhere, including through courtrooms and other government buildings that X-ray everything I bring every time I pass through as a contractor.
So yeah, a knife inside my wallet went through about 50 X-ray machines at federal facilities completely undetected, and I unknowingly carried it through all sorts of places where it is extremely illegal to have a knife. They always scolded me though if I tried to bring anything made of glass, like a coke bottle or something, because it could be used as a weapon.
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I travel a lot for work. US Customs and the TSA are absolutely a sick joke. I could easily write a novella on the extremely poor training of TSA employees. I have a small permanent retainer (read: braces); about 25% of the time, that is considered suspicious, and I get an enhanced inspection. “Ya know, I could just open my mouth and show you what’s in there.”
The TSA always determines that my juggling balls are suspicious, so I never pack them in carry-on anymore. I have NEXUS, yet I always get an enhanced inspection on return to the US. Literally every other country to which I have flown just waves me through, even before I got Pre-Check/NEXUS/Global Entry.
My partner had her rigging knife in her backpack on a flight out and back. She was unpacking and found it in her backpack after the trip. Good catch, TSA.
And the absolute frosting on the TSA shit sandwich: one of my close friends owns a private security firm. His company was approached by the TSA to assist in security audits at a major international airport. He and his team were contracted to “smuggle” fake firearms through TSA checkpoints, any way they could. The TSA repeatedly failed to detect the firearms for each of five audits. The TSA division (district? regional?) manager, frustrated at his group’s 100% failure rate, determined that my friend’s company must have specialized criminal training, and everyone who worked that contract were put on the no-fly list. It took him about 18 months to unfuck that mess for him and his employees.
I had written a few more paragraphs about TSA hassles, but I think y’all get the picture.
The TSA division (district? regional?) manager, frustrated at his group’s 100% failure rate, determined that my friend’s company must have specialized criminal training, and everyone who worked that contract were put on the no-fly list.
What in the fuck?
Oh, throughout the whole thing, he and his employees were treated like garbage. He would get through security, go directly to the person’s office, and reassemble the pistol in front of the manager. And then my friend (or one of his employees) would get interrogated for hours on unrelated questions, like it was somehow my friend’s fault that the TSA failed their audits.
Juggling balls you say?
If my juggling of balls catches your fancy, you might also be interested to know that I also smoke meat, play the flute, and churn butter. 😆
He does it every single flight.
All of those things.An absolute pleasure to share a flight with.
Are you a Hobbit or something? Because I approve all those things.
Fresh butter on smoked salmon with live entertainment on a flight? What’s not to like?
the only surprising thing in this story is that no one got their genitals full on cupped and brushed.
I’ve had 3 different TSA agents reach down the front of my pants and either full on grab my junk or very heavily brush the back of their hands over it (through underwear)
Isn’t TSA just a money-grab?
With no actual oversight, requirements, or sanctions, that’s just transfer of public money to some random wage-slaves and private subcontractors (like for the all-so-special equipment they must have, as well as tons of gloves and lube they consume daily).
Im sure AI could do racial profiling just as racially biased as them, and also fail at detecting any real threats. And Im sure I’ve seen some ‘cavity search’-like robots online that could be deployed.
Because the TSA Is theatre.
I put a 5 inch blade in a bag I used for work that I totally forgot about, for 2 full years and flew all over the US without anyone calling me on it. I’m glad that TSA provides employment for so many people but they are in fact a joke
I know this one… it’s because the TSA sucks and isn’t anything more than security theater.
What’s surreal is being in a security line that is so backed up that the TSA on duty decide to tell people to keep their shoes on, and they open up the old fashioned metal detector to supplement the body scanner just to get people through faster.
Straight up confirmation that none of what they do matters.
Mmmmm love the smell of security theater in the morning
And yet I’ve had to throw out a whole bottle of St. Ives lotion. Which country is threatened by me having silky smooth skin?
You ever try to take down a greased up deaf guy?
A hypothetical version of myself may have worked in an International Airport as a security lead. That hypothetical version would have to pass through general passenger TSA and Border checkpoint dozens of times a day. They also may have always been carrying dab pens on him and his coworkers might have on several occasions just carried handguns through that they might have forgotten on their persons.
Yeah Airports are to security as Ant traps are to an exterminator. Lotta smoke and mirrors. Most cameras are non functioning or just straight up not wired in the first place.
Can confirm hypothetical dab pens. And joyrides in the electric carts next to the planes taking off.
No idea? It comes down to the one person doing the job that may or may not care.
Just a few months ago, my wife and I went on vacation, and she had my mushroom hunting knife with like a 4 or 5-inch blade on it in her purse. The purse went through scanners and everything and no one said a fucking thing. Didn’t realize we had the knife until we were on the plane in the air, and she went to get gum out.
some people are way too casual about guns and ammo
American border is like prison border with the world being the prison. They are more concerned about people getting out of the prison than people getting in.
Pro-tip: Keep your range bag and your travel bag SEPARATE. Problem solved!
The same way all my weed carts make it through in my carry on. X-ray machines are confusing, and contraband in tiny and is easily obscured.
Well, also they don’t give a shit about weed carts. Their job is security, not drug enforcement. Sure if you had a pound of weed they’d probably stop you, but a vape cart or two? Not worth their time. Especially if it ends up being tobacco. And they can’t tell from the scanner.
lmao, weed carts and tobacco carts are quite different looking, and yes they care about them a lot less than weapons, but they can and will confiscate them if they find them, and they never do.
Depends on the cart, man. You can get some cheap-ass disposable 510 carts for nicotine that don’t look THAT different from the 510 weed carts. The atomizers are completely different, as is the wick, but the average person scanning doesn’t know that.
And as you get into disposable weed vapes they’re not dissimilar from the disposable nicotine ones. Again, different tech for actually vaping, since oils and PG/VG behave differently, but the average person won’t notice.
