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• skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I had a pair of tweezers confiscated. It’s all arbitrary, and everyone who has ever worked airport security is a wanker

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• schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I looked it up today and it seems that at a lot of airports in Europe (where this happened), the limit is 6 cm. My pocket knife is slightly below that.

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  • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    best part is that somehow my boss went through the same security screenings as me but he had a 3-4in folding knife in his pocket that somehow wasn’t confiscated until the return journey

    I’m not 100% sure it was in his pocket on the way there, but he claims it was. in any case, it wasn’t in checked baggage.

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    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I had an Indian friend who flew from Florida home to Bombay. As he was waiting there for his luggage he glanced down at his shirt pocket and noticed part of a joint sticking out.

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The TSA has like a 30% track record of noticing my wife forgot to take the pepper spray off her keys

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    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’ve snuck knives through security multiple times, and it has always been an accident. I’ll usually get through security and then as I’m putting everything back in my pockets, I realize that there is a keychain knife on my keys, or that I forgot about a folding blade in my wallet.

      I work in an industry where I sometimes have to cut a lot of rope. And I don’t want to waste time tracking down a knife every time I need one. So I’m in the habit of always keeping a knife (honestly, multiple knives) somewhere on my person. Even if I left my regular knife, and my multitool, and my keys (with my keychain knife) at my desk, I still probably have a knife somewhere weird like in my wallet. But that means I also have a bunch of random blades that I tend to forget about until I actively need them.

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• MML@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Technically it’s the law a lot of places, surprisingly one of the only places I’ve actually seen it applied as written was at the State Capital, specially listed knives under 3.5" as allowed

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