[jwparkerjr]

I can’t believe he was able to get this contraband on board the flight ‘in his bag’. Wasn’t anyone checking the carry-on baggage to make it sure didn’t contain things like this?

We are spending billions of dollars on security and a teen flies that far with banned items in his possession? This doesn’t do a lot to make me feel safe about flying somewhere!

[GingisK]

We are spending billions of dollars on security and a teen flies that far with banned items in his possession?

Only now do you discover that our airport security is merely "window dressing"? How can security be enforced right alongside "Political Correctness"?

I've know for many years now that our leaders are idiots. Welcome aboard.

[lormand]

A co-worker told me that when he travelled with his family and mother-in-law to Yosemite park last year, he was shocked when he saw his mother-in-law pull a knife out of her purse and start carving an apple after reaching the first connecting flight.

[El Gato]

” handcuffs, rope and duct tape” are contraband? Maybe the hand cuffs I suppose. But rope and duct tape might not even show up on the X ray machine. Maybe the “hand cuffs” were really cable ties, aka “zip ties”, which the police use in situations where there are too many needing to be restrained to use the “one per cop” handcuffs. Those wouldn’t show up on the X-ray either. (by “not show up” I mean not show up as anything suspicious, you might see something).

[BunnySlippers]

Remember the full grown cat that got into the luggage last week? It was x-rayed and went through security. No problem.