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marshaul
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Posted: Thu Apr 3rd, 2008 12:13 pm |
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marine dad wrote:
...makes you wonder about those security people that we trust our lives to. i have told this story with my friends permission.
Wait, you trust your life to security that is designed primarily to give the impression of security?
You know it's true. They hassle you (and little old ladies) just enough to make you feel like you're gone through a serious screening process, but the evidence that a pistol can go right through an x-ray machine is right before your eyes. I for one am not in the least surprised. I accidentally walked on a plane with a balisong 2 or 3 years back (I was moving, and I meant to pack it in my suitcase, but it stupidly ended up in my carry-on). Needless to say that, too, went through an x-ray machine.
Truth be told, if that ever happened to me (again), gun or knife, I'm not sure I would say a word. Once you've got through security, what's the point? I think I could trust myself with any weapon on an airplane. 
Not that I'm saying I would ever actually intentionally attempt to get a weapon through security, but once you've found yourself in that position, it seems like a bigger risk to admit it than to just get on your plane and go wherever you're going. Nobody need ever be the wiser. Unless, of course, (and this I don't know), somebody actually bothers to keep records of who's declared a gun on which flights.
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mkl
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| Location: | Arlington,va |
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Posted: Thu Apr 3rd, 2008 12:36 pm |
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marshaul wrote: marine dad wrote:
...makes you wonder about those security people that we trust our lives to. i have told this story with my friends permission.
Wait, you trust your life to security that is designed primarily to give the impression of security?
You know it's true. They hassle you (and little old ladies) just enough to make you feel like you're gone through a serious screening process, but the evidence that a pistol can go right through an x-ray machine is right before your eyes. I for one am not in the least surprised. I accidentally walked on a plane with a balisong 2 or 3 years back (I was moving, and I meant to pack it in my suitcase, but it stupidly ended up in my carry-on). Needless to say that, too, went through an x-ray machine.
Truth be told, if that ever happened to me (again), gun or knife, I'm not sure I would say a word. Once you've got through security, what's the point? I think I could trust myself with any weapon on an airplane.
Not that I'm saying I would ever actually intentionally attempt to get a weapon through security, but once you've found yourself in that position, it seems like a bigger risk to admit it than to just get on your plane and go wherever you're going. Nobody need ever be the wiser. Unless, of course, (and this I don't know), somebody actually bothers to keep records of who's declared a gun on which flights.
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/10/new_tsa_report.html
"screeners at Los Angeles and Chicago O'Hare airports failed to find more than 60% of fake explosives that TSA agents tried to get through checkpoints last year. "
Definitely security theater. The good news however, is they will always find your water bottle:
" One fake bomb was placed in the same bag as a bottle of water. The TSA opened the bag, took the water, and let the bomb on the plane. "
http://consumerist.com/consumer/your-government/tsa-confiscates-water-bottle-misses-bomb-276845.php
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jeepinbanditrider
Regular Member
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Posted: Mon Apr 7th, 2008 04:50 am |
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I walked though security and boarded a plane flew on it for three hrs and was about to board my 2nd plane when I realized that I had a pocket full of Winchester 115grn 9mm FMJs in my coat pocket.
My heart was in my throat for a few seconds till I calmed down and realized that I had no more secruity to go though and as long as I kept my mouth shut and my pocket closed I would make it home without a set of handcuffs on.
When I got home I called DFW's security office and left a message (they wern't there?) giving a description of what happened. About two days later I got a message left on my phone from a woman that worked there saying that we could press the issue if I wanted but i could result in me having charges leveled at me for bringing the ammo on the plane.
I never called'em back.
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