3" Folding Buck Knife carried on a plane without detection (round trip)!!

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I have a soft-sided briefcase with my laptop and a million other things. I was just cleaning it out from a trip to Minneapolis last week to get my expense report together. I had completely forgotton that I had a 3" folding hunting knife in there. Now - why the hell didn't they find it? It was scanned TWO times - there and back and it was a Carry-on!!!!


:Q

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Chunkee

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uh, have you seen the personnel that work the security...there is your answer

jC

Originally posted by: yellowfiero
I have a soft-sided briefcase with my laptop and a million other things. I was just cleaning it out from a trip to Minneapolis last week to get my expense report together. I had completely forgotton that I had a 3" folding hunting knife in there. Now - why the hell didn't they find it? It was scanned TWO times - there and back and it was a Carry-on!!!!


:Q

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Smackem

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When I arrived in amsterdam about 1 1/2 years ago, I went to put on my coat I packed. Wrapped in TIN FOIL, I found around .2 grams of marijuana. I accidently smuggled pot INTO amsterdam, WRAPPED IN TINFOIL.

I got so lucky.
 

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Originally posted by: Smackem
When I arrived in amsterdam about 1 1/2 years ago, I went to put on my coat I packed. Wrapped in TIN FOIL, I found around .2 grams of marijuana. I accidently smuggled pot INTO amsterdam, WRAPPED IN TINFOIL.

I got so lucky.

Its legal there though, right?
 

Lonyo

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I carried a small (1") knife on a bottle opener/corkscrew thing (corkscrew had broken off) on domestic flights in the UK a few times, and also to Rome, Canada and Hawaii, IIRC.
It was in my wallet and folded up.
It got caught eventually on a domestic flight, but yeah, they're hard to catch.
 

chowmein

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Originally posted by: Smackem
When I arrived in amsterdam about 1 1/2 years ago, I went to put on my coat I packed. Wrapped in TIN FOIL, I found around .2 grams of marijuana. I accidently smuggled pot INTO amsterdam, WRAPPED IN TINFOIL.

I got so lucky.

lucky its amsterdam, or you would have got 20 years in India or something.
 

PanzerIV

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Yellow, you are lucky they didn't throw you down on the ground , hogtie you and shut down the airport. :D
 

BriGy86

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i hear some people have empty dog food bags lined with duct tape, then they go in to the store fill it up with stuff then buy the dog food and walk out

the duct tape some how fools the sensors

don't know if X-ray is the same way
 

Ausm

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Originally posted by: Smackem
When I arrived in amsterdam about 1 1/2 years ago, I went to put on my coat I packed. Wrapped in TIN FOIL, I found around .2 grams of marijuana. I accidently smuggled pot INTO amsterdam, WRAPPED IN TINFOIL.

I got so lucky.



Why the hell would you have to smuggle POT into Amsterdam?!?!?!?!

AUsm
 

anxi80

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friend who works for a graphics company carried on a sheet cutting blade on accidentally. didnt catch it until he was going through his backpack on the drive home. and it too was surrounded in a plastic casing. the blade itself is at least a few inches long with a serrated edge.
 

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I took a leatheman mini (keychain pocketknife) on a trip ~18 months ago. I stuck my hand in my pocket while on the flight and realized to my shock that I had never taken it off my keyring. I put it in a checked bag on the flight back.
 

BriGy86

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those aren't even the real threats now

all they have to do is put a bomb in a checked bag with an altimeter and set it to go off when it reaches a certain alititude

i think its been done before too
 

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Originally posted by: PanzerIV
Yellow, you are lucky they didn't throw you down on the ground , hogtie you and shut down the airport. :D

No kidding - the guy in front of me had a complete pat-down. :D
 

exilera

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I can beat that. My fiance flew with a 7" serrated steak knife with a pronged tip in her purse. We were moving and she put it in there, and apparently forgot about it. Her purse was scanned and the knife was not detected.
 

exilera

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Originally posted by: BriGy86
those aren't even the real threats now

all they have to do is put a bomb in a checked bag with an altimeter and set it to go off when it reaches a certain alititude

i think its been done before too

:roll: Stop reading the Anarchist's Cookbook.
 

Qwest

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Originally posted by: yellowfiero
I have a soft-sided briefcase with my laptop and a million other things. I was just cleaning it out from a trip to Minneapolis last week to get my expense report together. I had completely forgotton that I had a 3" folding hunting knife in there. Now - why the hell didn't they find it? It was scanned TWO times - there and back and it was a Carry-on!!!!


:Q

:confused:

Contact the NTSB and FAA and let them know.
 

BlueWeasel

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Originally posted by: BriGy86
i hear some people have empty dog food bags lined with duct tape, then they go in to the store fill it up with stuff then buy the dog food and walk out

the duct tape some how fools the sensors

don't know if X-ray is the same way

Couldn't the dumbest checkout person distinguish between the two? I'd think it would be really easy to notice a bag full of dog food and a dog food bag full of say, DVDs or steaks..
 

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Originally posted by: chowmein
Originally posted by: Smackem
When I arrived in amsterdam about 1 1/2 years ago, I went to put on my coat I packed. Wrapped in TIN FOIL, I found around .2 grams of marijuana. I accidently smuggled pot INTO amsterdam, WRAPPED IN TINFOIL.

I got so lucky.

lucky its amsterdam, or you would have got 20 years in India or something.

the most recent case was in indonesia.
 

Vich

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Originally posted by: exilera
I can beat that. My fiance flew with a 7" serrated steak knife with a pronged tip in her purse. We were moving and she put it in there, and apparently forgot about it. Her purse was scanned and the knife was not detected.

rofl
 

chiwawa626

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Originally posted by: BriGy86
i hear some people have empty dog food bags lined with duct tape, then they go in to the store fill it up with stuff then buy the dog food and walk out

the duct tape some how fools the sensors

don't know if X-ray is the same way

The ductape on the inside of the bag is for strength. You fill it with items that wont trip the sensors, or you just pull off the sensor tags (theyre pretty obvious). Ductape isn't magical.