[Inspector Harry Callahan]

Did a search and was surprised this hadn't been posted already.

[camle]

isn't this the taking of personal property without compensation?

[Inspector Harry Callahan]

Here's the list from Ebay

What an outrage. What ever happened to just compensation?

Welcome to the "safe" new Amerika.

[lizm_77]

How hard would it be for them to provide an envelope for you to address, pay the shipping and have your belongings sent back to you? I can't believe the option of getting your things back isn't given to you, at least it wasn't when my tweezers were confiscated last Thanksgiving... who's to say dishonest security won't start taking things just because they want them?

[dcwusmc]

Hi, Harry. Thanks for this. I see our official thieves are making bucks off the 9-11 atrocity... just as they do from the war on Americans run by FedGov. A disgusting display.

[dcwusmc]

Hi, Harry. Thanks for this. I see our official thieves are making bucks off the 9-11 atrocity... just as they do from the war on Americans run by FedGov. A disgusting display.

[mwyounce]

Unbelievable.... Why doesn't California just take the money out of your wallet as you go through the checkpoint... wouldn't that be simpler?

I had a ball point pen taken out of the front pocket of my carry-on back in October, 2001. I wasn't so mad that they took it, but they didn't even bother to tell me they took it... I had to find out when I got my stuff out to do some work on the plane and my pen was gone.

So, if Texas ever starts doing this same thing, and someone bids on some cheap ball point pens, you can send one to me! :-)

[Freedom4US]

They'll stop this kind of thing real quick, now that it's out. Not that they won't find another way of selling it, but this has to stop. This is theft, plain and simple.

[gorebegone]

Hey those look like my tools!!

[jimt]

This is theft, pure and simple.

But then again, so is "asset forfeiture".

Land of the sheep and home of the controlled.

[gorebegone]

Hey that looks like the stuff I used to pay my vehicle registration fees last year!

[gorebegone]

Hey that looks like the stuff I used to pay my vehicle registration fees last year!

[Daus]

This must have been a doozey of a carry-on!

4 New Firestone FR 440 - P175/80R13 M&S Tires

To be clear, the items are for the entire California Surplus supply program, not just the seizure stuff.

[Cagey]

Among the oddest items confiscated and sold were at least three circular saws, hatchets, curtain rods and a little girl's baton, said Robb Deignan, ...

And to think of all the Miss America contestants who can't get their props on planes now.

You've been missed, Harry.

[Neanderthal]

"Also sold: 5,364 pocketknives, 350 pounds of scissors, 594 corkscrews and 309 leatherman tools."

When they confiscated my Leatherman tool at Oakland back in October the guy just put it in his pocket. I said, "I guess it's your lucky day."

[Husker24]

Why cant these things be mailed back to the owner?

[sheltonmac]

*ping*