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Post by dirtypillows on Nov 24, 2020 16:17:00 GMT
I'm travelling to North Carolina for Thanksgiving. I'm at the airport now. I just went through the baggage/body inspection. I tried to be thorough ahead of time as to not have to get held up. Airport security can be quite exacting when it comes to safety. They will even confiscate your drink.
Okay, so I made it through without delay. So I'm sitting at a table near the boarding gate and I'm rifling through my backpack looking for my book to read. Lo and behold, I see my nail clippers big as shit. I'd overlooked them when I was packing. The clippers are Swiss Army knife multi-purpose and, if the person saw fit, could easily be used as a deadly weapon. I was surprised to see this happen. I'm not dissing Inspector Gadget as I have no doubt that his job could get very tiresome, but at the same time it was one big eye-opener for me.
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Post by enigma72 on Nov 24, 2020 17:15:41 GMT
dirtypillows  have a wonderful trip! where are you going? That was weird about the clippers.
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Post by Ass_E9 on Nov 24, 2020 18:20:36 GMT
Be safe.
Wishing you a snake-free flight.
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Post by Nora on Nov 24, 2020 20:26:52 GMT
I'm travelling to North Carolina for Thanksgiving. I'm at the airport now. I just went through the baggage/body inspection. I tried to be thorough ahead of time as to not have to get held up. Airport security can be quite exacting when it comes to safety. They will even confiscate your drink. Okay, so I made it through without delay. So I'm sitting at a table near the boarding gate and I'm rifling through my backpack looking for my book to read. Lo and behold, I see my nail clippers big as shit. I'd overlooked them when I was packing. The clippers are Swiss Army knife multi-purpose and, if the person saw fit, could easily be used as a deadly weapon. I was surprised to see this happen. I'm not dissing Inspector Gadget as I have no doubt that his job could get very tiresome, but at the same time it was one big eye-opener for me. wow consider yourself lucky. (also, its a bit worrying that that happened) Hopefuly u r not gonna kill anyone with it at the thanksgiving table  And have a great trip  |
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Post by dirtypillows on Nov 24, 2020 20:41:48 GMT
I'm travelling to North Carolina for Thanksgiving. I'm at the airport now. I just went through the baggage/body inspection. I tried to be thorough ahead of time as to not have to get held up. Airport security can be quite exacting when it comes to safety. They will even confiscate your drink. Okay, so I made it through without delay. So I'm sitting at a table near the boarding gate and I'm rifling through my backpack looking for my book to read. Lo and behold, I see my nail clippers big as shit. I'd overlooked them when I was packing. The clippers are Swiss Army knife multi-purpose and, if the person saw fit, could easily be used as a deadly weapon. I was surprised to see this happen. I'm not dissing Inspector Gadget as I have no doubt that his job could get very tiresome, but at the same time it was one big eye-opener for me. wow consider yourself lucky. (also, its a bit worrying that that happened) Hopefuly u r not gonna kill anyone with it at the thanksgiving table And have a great trip Yeah, i guess i am lucky. I never thought about that, since I never think along those lines. I would have assumed that they would have just disposed of the clippers and that would have been that. But, now that I think of it, it could have been much worse. Yikes! I don't even want to think of how it could have turned out! It will be very nice, relaxing trip with lots of good. And I love their puppy. |
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Post by dirtypillows on Nov 24, 2020 20:47:26 GMT
Be safe. Wishing you a snake-free flight. Oh, I've got other things on my mind than snakes (I never did see that movie) Things like a mad bomber on board and a precious pixie stowaway. A purple and orange interior design and the stewardess landing the plane. I wouldn't mind Mr. Roper being a passenger if only Mrs. Roper had joined him. Though I think I might like having a nun serenading to the passengers about how we all are our own best friends. |
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Post by Nora on Nov 25, 2020 3:12:24 GMT
wow consider yourself lucky. (also, its a bit worrying that that happened) Hopefuly u r not gonna kill anyone with it at the thanksgiving table And have a great trip Yeah, i guess i am lucky. I never thought about that, since I never think along those lines. I would have assumed that they would have just disposed of the clippers and that would have been that. But, now that I think of it, it could have been much worse. Yikes! I don't even want to think of how it could have turned out! It will be very nice, relaxing trip with lots of good. And I love their puppy. it really depends. sometimes all they do is take it away, sometimes they call K9/bomb squad on you, sometimes they take you to another room for a full body search or a security interview, its all about how nervous/upset you act and what you hold (and sometimes Random they say). Sorry if I repeat myslef but - Once the fact I touched a perfume in the duty free store caused a plane full of people to be stopped at runway and delayed by more than 45 minutes - and K9/bomb squad was called, and they searched EVERYTHING and wiped my stuff and my body and clothes with anti explosive papers and the machine kept giving them (false) positive - so more and more armed people were coming. Two K9 dogs ended up saving me and overturned the machine results. The explanation the soldiers gave me was that Some Type of perfume or soap can trigger a false positive in Some type of those machines. Who knows what the truth is but thats what I was told. |
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Post by dirtypillows on Nov 25, 2020 3:16:04 GMT
dirtypillows have a wonderful trip! where are you going? That was weird about the clippers. I'm going to be in Asheville, N.C. for a week. My goal is to move down here next summer. It's beautiful and there seems to be so much to do. |
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Post by dirtypillows on Nov 25, 2020 3:18:16 GMT
Yeah, i guess i am lucky. I never thought about that, since I never think along those lines. I would have assumed that they would have just disposed of the clippers and that would have been that. But, now that I think of it, it could have been much worse. Yikes! I don't even want to think of how it could have turned out! It will be very nice, relaxing trip with lots of good. And I love their puppy. it really depends. sometimes all they do is take it away, sometimes they call K9/bomb squad on you, sometimes they take you to another room for a full body search or a security interview, its all about how nervous/upset you act and what you hold (and sometimes Random they say). Sorry if I repeat myslef but - Once the fact I touched a perfume in the duty free store caused a plane full of people to be stopped at runway and delayed by more than 45 minutes - and K9/bomb squad was called, and they searched EVERYTHING and wiped my stuff and my body and clothes with anti explosive papers and the machine kept giving them (false) positive - so more and more armed people were coming. Two K9 dogs ended up saving me and overturned the machine results. The explanation the soldiers gave me was that Some Type of perfume or soap can trigger a false positive in Some type of those machines. Who knows what the truth is but thats what I was told. What a bizarre thing to have happened. Does not sound like fun at all. Thank goodness for the dogs! |
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Post by Nora on Nov 25, 2020 16:06:05 GMT
it really depends. sometimes all they do is take it away, sometimes they call K9/bomb squad on you, sometimes they take you to another room for a full body search or a security interview, its all about how nervous/upset you act and what you hold (and sometimes Random they say). Sorry if I repeat myslef but - Once the fact I touched a perfume in the duty free store caused a plane full of people to be stopped at runway and delayed by more than 45 minutes - and K9/bomb squad was called, and they searched EVERYTHING and wiped my stuff and my body and clothes with anti explosive papers and the machine kept giving them (false) positive - so more and more armed people were coming. Two K9 dogs ended up saving me and overturned the machine results. The explanation the soldiers gave me was that Some Type of perfume or soap can trigger a false positive in Some type of those machines. Who knows what the truth is but thats what I was told. What a bizarre thing to have happened. Does not sound like fun at all. Thank goodness for the dogs! yes Exactly, they really saved me. The machines kept saying I handled explosives recently based on the swab of my hands and my computer. It was really bizzare to watch because you KNOW you havent done it but the Machine repeatadly says otherwise and how are you going to prove that you Have Not handled explosives. They even pulled my bag from the plane too, to check it. Then the dogs came and I was really worried thinking what if they confirm the SEVERAL machine readings for some reason. By that time I had multiple people with machine guns around me, nobody talked to me, when I tried to say something they would shush me, oh and then a proper CHEMIST came too. With like viles of stuff he was mixing together and he did a proper chemistry reading of the residue on my hands and I am not sure what the result of that was because the dogs labeled me harmless in the meantime. I wanted to hug them but of course that would have been a terrible idea. What bugs me is that they put my name on some list at the airport, of people they had to call the chemist and K9 for and I really wonder where that list ended up and if my name was ever taken off of it.. But to be fair, this was only one experience like this from the overall perhaps... I dunno... 200-300 flights I took in my life... and its good they are thorough of course. Just with the wrong person |
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Post by enigma72 on Nov 25, 2020 17:01:17 GMT
dirtypillows have a wonderful trip! where are you going? That was weird about the clippers. I'm going to be in Asheville, N.C. for a week. My goal is to move down here next summer. It's beautiful and there seems to be so much to do. I want to move where the weather is great, no snow . Have a nice time!!  Ashville looks amazing! 
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Post by dirtypillows on Nov 25, 2020 20:31:29 GMT
What a bizarre thing to have happened. Does not sound like fun at all. Thank goodness for the dogs! yes Exactly, they really saved me. The machines kept saying I handled explosives recently based on the swab of my hands and my computer. It was really bizzare to watch because you KNOW you havent done it but the Machine repeatadly says otherwise and how are you going to prove that you Have Not handled explosives. They even pulled my bag from the plane too, to check it. Then the dogs came and I was really worried thinking what if they confirm the SEVERAL machine readings for some reason. By that time I had multiple people with machine guns around me, nobody talked to me, when I tried to say something they would shush me, oh and then a proper CHEMIST came too. With like viles of stuff he was mixing together and he did a proper chemistry reading of the residue on my hands and I am not sure what the result of that was because the dogs labeled me harmless in the meantime. I wanted to hug them but of course that would have been a terrible idea. What bugs me is that they put my name on some list at the airport, of people they had to call the chemist and K9 for and I really wonder where that list ended up and if my name was ever taken off of it.. But to be fair, this was only one experience like this from the overall perhaps... I dunno... 200-300 flights I took in my life... and its good they are thorough of course. Just with the wrong person You mentioned something about sampling a certain perfume yielding the false positive. I would think that would mean that the guilty scent was forever pulled from the airport perfume store. Do you know if they made the effort to make sure that happened? |
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Post by Nora on Nov 26, 2020 16:01:30 GMT
yes Exactly, they really saved me. The machines kept saying I handled explosives recently based on the swab of my hands and my computer. It was really bizzare to watch because you KNOW you havent done it but the Machine repeatadly says otherwise and how are you going to prove that you Have Not handled explosives. They even pulled my bag from the plane too, to check it. Then the dogs came and I was really worried thinking what if they confirm the SEVERAL machine readings for some reason. By that time I had multiple people with machine guns around me, nobody talked to me, when I tried to say something they would shush me, oh and then a proper CHEMIST came too. With like viles of stuff he was mixing together and he did a proper chemistry reading of the residue on my hands and I am not sure what the result of that was because the dogs labeled me harmless in the meantime. I wanted to hug them but of course that would have been a terrible idea. What bugs me is that they put my name on some list at the airport, of people they had to call the chemist and K9 for and I really wonder where that list ended up and if my name was ever taken off of it.. But to be fair, this was only one experience like this from the overall perhaps... I dunno... 200-300 flights I took in my life... and its good they are thorough of course. Just with the wrong person You mentioned something about sampling a certain perfume yielding the false positive. I would think that would mean that the guilty scent was forever pulled from the airport perfume store. Do you know if they made the effort to make sure that happened? not sure, but most likely not, from what they said it is not an uncommon problem with multiple perfumes/soaps/creams. If you google it you will see various people describing similar experiences and different perfumes are listed as culprits. |
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Post by msdemos on Nov 26, 2020 18:17:38 GMT
What a bizarre thing to have happened. Does not sound like fun at all. Thank goodness for the dogs! yes Exactly, they really saved me. The machines kept saying I handled explosives recently based on the swab of my hands and my computer. It was really bizzare to watch because you KNOW you havent done it but the Machine repeatadly says otherwise and how are you going to prove that you Have Not handled explosives. They even pulled my bag from the plane too, to check it. Then the dogs came and I was really worried thinking what if they confirm the SEVERAL machine readings for some reason. By that time I had multiple people with machine guns around me, nobody talked to me, when I tried to say something they would shush me, oh and then a proper CHEMIST came too. With like viles of stuff he was mixing together and he did a proper chemistry reading of the residue on my hands and I am not sure what the result of that was because the dogs labeled me harmless in the meantime. I wanted to hug them but of course that would have been a terrible idea. What bugs me is that they put my name on some list at the airport, of people they had to call the chemist and K9 for and I really wonder where that list ended up and if my name was ever taken off of it.. But to be fair, this was only one experience like this from the overall perhaps... I dunno... 200-300 flights I took in my life... and its good they are thorough of course. Just with the wrong person Wasn't this the plot from an Alfred Hitchcock movie......"The Wrong Woman", or something like that ??   SAVE FERRIS
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Post by moonchild on Nov 27, 2020 3:52:24 GMT
dirtypillowsIs someone taking care of your boy? Are you going to have to quarantine for 2 weeks there?
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Post by dirtypillows on Nov 27, 2020 6:05:43 GMT
dirtypillowsIs someone taking care of your boy? Are you going to have to quarantine for 2 weeks there? My dad will take care of my little boy. He put him on the phone today when I called. (Thank you for asking!) I don't know about the quarantine. Things are relatively relaxed down here. The plane ride went smoothly. |
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