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Originally Posted by LAJ
So I'm at the Phoenix airport yesterday on my way home after an AWESOME forum and I'm going thru "security". Whenever possible I always ONLY do carry on. I pull my toiletry bag out of my suitcase and put it on the belt. Gotta make sure my deadly mix of hairgel, deodorant, toothpaste, cologne and shaving cream all fit into a 1-quart baggie, therefore making it physically impossible for me to get to it in-flight. Then I get a lecture from the woman about how I should pull the baggie OUT of the toiletry bag to save everyone time.
"umm... Ma'am... I can appreciate the rules you guys have going on here, but if time is important here, your lecture took a lot longer than the physical act of unzipping the bag and looking at the contents"
So then she asks me if I packed a snow globe in my suitcase to which my reply was "yes... I do this every time I travel home. I buy my son a snow globe from each of the cities I travel to all year long."
Bag check time. No telling what kind of threat I pose NOW.
So the guy rifles thru my very meticulously packed suitcase... which for me is like getting teeth pulled.
"sir... are you looking for anything other than my dangerous snow globe?"
"no... where is it?"
"that black plastic bag right in front with the paper wrapped around it to look like a present."
So of course he unwraps and pulls it out and says I can't take it with me cuz it's more than 3 ounces. NOT because I could have injected it with something... but simply cuz it's more than 3 ounces.
Well that's logical.
My options? Either go all the way back to check in and get my bag checked in... or go to the post office in the airport and mail it.
"all this for a $15 gift for my 4 year old son?... throw the god damned thing away" I told him.
Then I walked 20 feet to the gift store, saw the same exact snowglobe there, bought it, and put it in my suitcase.
Nice.
Upon my return to Austin I see an 80 year old man getting frisked right there in front of everyone COPS style.
"Are you friggen KIDDING ME?"... I shouted out to the guys... "SHAME ON YOU."
I'm probably on everyone's watch list now...
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OH JAY! You'll never NOT be harassed again after that.
When I was coming back from FL last year I had bought an ocean globe to bring home as a gift. This was in my carry on as I didn't want it slammed around and broken like so many things when you send your bags into the abyss. I had absolutely NO issues in the FL airport what so ever. Me and my ocean globe got on the plane w/o issue.
I had a layover in Dallas and met my sister for dinner there for having to go back through security. NOW there's a big fucking issue with my globe. I looked at the TSA and I said... "now you know I flew from Florida to here with that in my backpack right?" He looked at me and said, "well you'll have to check it this time maam." I was like, your fucking kidding me right? Next thing you know they are escorting me back to the front desk of the airline to check my fucking globe. When I get there I'm treated like shit by the bitch at the front desk and told I've already checked 2 bags so I'm going to have to pay extra for this item to be put on the plane.
The fucked up thing is that there was 4 of us leaving FL at the same time and they checked someone else's bag to me so he never got his bag when he arrived in TUCSON, some 5 hours earlier. This woman at the counter continues to argue with me about my bags. I told her look, *by now I'm really angry and prolly have the I'm going to kill you soon look on my face* I can tell you who I checked in with at the FL airport and who's bag I have mysteriously checked to me. FINALLY this bitch agrees to get me a box for my fucking globe and check it for free.
I could not believe the way we were treated by the airlines because of their own fuck up. IF the dumbasses in FL knew how to check bags, we would have all had our own ticket stubs, AND if they had just made me check it in FL this would have never happened.
FL baggage checkers!! I hate to fly anymore!
/end rant