Think the Giottos Rocket Blower Looks Like a Bomb? The TSA Does Too

PETAPIXEL ^ | Mar. 09, 2012 | swampsniper

[SWAMPSNIPER]

The Giottos Rocket is a popular tool used by photographers to remove dust from cameras and glass, but if you’re in love with yours, you might want to think twice about flying with it. Reddit user gynoceros found out the hard way that some TSA airport screeners aren’t too enthusiastic about the Rocket’s shape. He writes,

FYI — If you attempt to fly with a Giottos Rocket Blower (you know, rubber bulb you squeeze to force air down a nozzle to blow dust off your sensor — no metal, no moving parts), the TSA may confiscate it because it “looks like a bomb”, no questions asked.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

[Still Thinking]

Can I bitch slap the TSA guy because he “looks like an idiot”?

[null and void]

[tumblindice]

“A bimb? There is a time to laugh and a time not to laugh, and this is not one of them.”
TSA Inspector Jacques Clouseau

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Common sense is a disqualifier for the job!

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***TSA Inspector Jacques Clouseau***

A minkie searching for a bimb? Maybe he needs a leasanse.

[Waverunner]

I get your massage.

[Severa]

Or as my husband often says about his job (aircraft maintenance): “There’s no time for rational solutions here” or my personal favorite, “Don’t be coming up in here bringing common sense or you’re going to get us all fired...”

[SkyDancer]

[fieldmarshaldj]

Looks like an enema to me.

[tumblindice]

The crooks never sleep and neither does Clouseau.
Roger and goodbye.

[GILTN1stborn]

Kinda reminds me of the useful tool I had when the kids were babies to clean out their noses when they were sick.

[Hardraade]

Forgot the Arab, to show a non-terrorist.

[doorgunner69]

Given the Holder's peoples I see manning the TSA checkpoints, just plain intelligence would be a godsend. The stupidity of these overweight creatures is incredible. Unquestionably Zero voter.

We were off on a trip for scuba diving. As usual, we packed our regulators and hoses in carry on. Of course, that caused much panic and confusion. They opened our luggage, asking what these odd things were as they swabbed for bomb residue. I told them scuba equipment, and one of the 300lb female agents brightly says, "You be divers?" My tongue had many bite marks, let me tell you.

"No genius, we just like to drag that crap around"

[Uncle Miltie]

Fiddlestix. I’ve travelled with mine repeatedly.

[trebb]

Does it vibrate? Does Sandra Fluke know about it? How about her “suffering” friends?

[ThePatriotsFlag]

Same ones that took a star wars light saber from a kid because it was a weapon.

[ThePatriotsFlag]

Same ones that took a star wars light saber from a kid because it was a weapon.

[Hot Tabasco]

Kinda likes a portable thing to give enemas.......