Bringing my computer tools on a plane

[Jschmuck2]

After checking their website, they say that you can't have anything with a blade (naturally) or anything over 7 inches (obligatory dick joke here) in your carry on.

Assuming I leave out the contraband exacto I have in there as well as my cattle prod, I should be ok bringing it on board with me, yes?

Tools list

Unfortunately, I'll have to leave my dynamite and plastic explosives back home

Explosives list

 

[Pepsei]

i check in all my computer tools.... less hassle.

 

[Yreka]

Originally posted by: Pepsei
i check in all my tools.... less hassle.

Same here

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

Why? Do you wear them on your belt like the geek Batman?

 

[legoman666]

No, he's going to use them to disassemble the plane, starting from the lavatory.

 

[necine]

Computer tool??? All I've ever needed was a couple screw drivers and a paper clip. Check that shit.

 

[markgm]

Terrorist.

 

[Rumpltzer]

I got one of those tiny screwdrivers that you use on glasses taken away from me. It was about 5 inches including the handle.

If you want to keep it, check it. Even when I checked my needlenose plier set, it seems to have caused a lot of anxiety in the LAX x-ray area. They opened my bag and only disturned the area where I had put the pliers. Of course they repacked it in the most half-assed manner.


Just because the TSA has rules on some Web site, don't expect the people in the airport will abide by them or even be aware of them. As I said, if you want to keep it, you should check it.

 

[gar3555]

I always get a screwdriver/needlenose pliers/small electronic tool of choice taken cuz I'll go straight from work to the airport, and my laptop bag is bustling with tools, it's hard for me to remember all of them.

 

[Jschmuck2]

Yeah, maybe I should check it. Although a large part of me wants to bring it in, if only to hassle the man.

Ah well.

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: Jschmuck2
Yeah, maybe I should check it. Although a large part of me wants to bring it in, if only to hassle the man.

Ah well.

Do anti-social geeks get off on things like this?

 

[Jschmuck2]

Dunno - you'd have to ask one

 

[iamwiz82]

Because giving a person who is two steps above being mentally handicapped a reason to strip-search me is a good idea and would be made by a sane individual.

 

[Sphexi]

No Nunchakus anymore? Screw that, I'm never flying again.

 

[Nitemare]

If it has metal in it, check it in.

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

Damnit, no ninja stars or black jacks. Awww, no billy clubs!

Edit: But you can bring Spear Guns in checked luggage! Yay, Predator!

 

[Parasitic]

What kind of weird ass man checks in cattle prods? Or crowbars?

Even Dr. Freeman wouldn't be that retarded.

 

[BoomerD]

I'm glad I no longer have to fly for work. I used to have to check 1-2 toolboxes plus my luggage every dammed time I got sent out of town for a job. When it was close enough (driving distance) I'd take one of the service trucks with built-in tool boxes, but that wasn't an option when they'd send me on long-distance jobs. Usually once I got there, we'd negotiate with the local union for a mechanic/oiler or a local equipment/crane repair firm to handle most of our repairs, but I still was required to have all my basic tools with me. Helped when setting up/rigging in a new crane...you just never know what's not gonna work right when you get there.
I can only imagine the hoops TSA would make me go through even with the tools locked and checked...

 

[nageov3t]

why don't you just put them with the luggage you're checking?