I Flew With a Pocketknife.

9/4/04 | Myself

[MistrX]

I recently flew from Los Angeles to Chicago. After completion of my journey, as I was emptying my suitcase, I discovered one of my folding knives in a side pocket. It had passed through security LAX and ORD in my carry-on. So much for the much-vaunted TSA.

[justin-garrett]

your probably not an arab.

[coconutt2000]

I got a pocket knife on my key chain. I flew with it. I'd be more dangerous that way to a terrorist.

[Max Combined]

I never did think that the TSA was perfect. Did you?

[fml]

You should be ashamed of yourself. ;)

[AmericanCheeseFood]

Aren't those guys Union now?

If they are, they're not expected to do their jobs, they just have to be there to pay their dues.

[JennysCool]

And this would be an accomplishment how? I once flew with Miss Nevada and she was much more entertaining than a pocket knife.

Now, go back to whittlin'.

[MistrX]

The knife, with a 3" blade went through security twice.
Mind-numbed gubmint employees.

[Slings and Arrows]

[hadaclueonce]

as long as they don't take away my roll of Quarters and that extra sock in my pocket...I will defend my self.

[rintense]

Last year, I flew out of Muskegon, MI to Boston and forgot I had one of those small eyeglasses screwdrivers in my laptop bag. The security at Muskegon kept seeing something show up in the xrays, and did an absolutely fabulous job of tracking the silly thing down. The folks at Logan never caught it.

Of all places, you'd think Logan would be more like Muskegon. Guess not.

[cajungirl]

good for you! Was it nice and sharp? Did you have it at the ready? Good man, keep it up!

[G.Mason]

And you ponder on your FR web page ... "I wish the government would leave me alone" ?

What is in that California water?

[Max Combined]

I wouldn't want to try to look at that TV screen for hours on end for days on end and try to keep everything that looks like a knife out.

I always walk through security with a watch and band made of titanium with never a problem going through the metal detectors. That much titanium would make a blade much larger than those used on 911.

I think the real improvement in security since 911 is that we now know that they will try to fly the jet into a building, so the neither the passengers nor the crew are going to passively let them take control of the airplane.

The fact that someone on a plane has a knife is no more worrying to me now than if that someone in a restaurant has a knife. It is the flying into the building or into the ground that is the problem, not the knife.

[Cagey]

That's just a great photo. It wasn't that long ago I saw a similar scene, except the man was quite a bit older than the one here.

[GeekDejure]

Sheesh... pocket knife, shmoket knife... too easy to smuggle on board. Next time try boarding with a high-falutin' rooty tootin' super duper top secret gidget... like maybe a Johan Sebastian Bach Scutter !!! ;-))

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[randita]

I flew one time with a small pair of sewing scissors in my purse which I always carry with me ( I often do needlework while waiting)--just totally forgot about them. I was not detained or questioned about them.

[joesnuffy]

It wouldn't matter if occasional they messed up and missed a pocket knife or two..

It's the fact that Minetta and his idiots have dragged their feet and made in almost impossible for pilots to be armed...the rules they impose upon them are so ludicrous...is to make them able to get to their weapons or even get them on the plane almost impossible...

The cockpit doors are still not secure enough....a cleaning crew on one airline occidentally smashed into one and knocked it off its hinges...

If pilots and crew were armed and backed up at all times....terrorists would never have been able to fly those planes into the WTC towers or the Pentagon....

Pres Bush should send Minneta packing ASAP

And overhaul TSA

imo

[G.Mason]

"If pilots and crew were armed and backed up at all times....terrorists would never have been able to fly those planes into the WTC towers or the Pentagon...."

Just as a perspective ... in 1963, while awaiting being hired off the police list, I worked as a driver for Railway Express. Whenever we carried U.S. mail, we had to carry a company firearm to protect it.

Somehow along the way, our priorities went to hell.

[henderson field]

TSA employees are Communists and should be deported.