Iif terrorists were actually that big of a threat they would simply blow up the massive security line out in front of security.
In Schiphol Airport at least you keep your shoes on (not boots, shoes), and electronics can stay in your bag. The bag goes through a kind of MRI and that’s enough for them to see the difference vs older x-ray equipment. Pretty convenient
Fun fact, in Europe you dont have to remove your shoes, yet noone has bombed any planes.
Flew back from Mexico last week and got to keep my shoes on. We all survived
That’s because you got lucky and boarded an Airbus.
Unfortunately, it was a 737 Max. So maybe I got lucky.
Yeah, but only because they didn’t let you bring a water bottle! Imagine what would happen if you could just carry liquid onto the plane!!1!1!1!
Ay least electronics in registered baggage is not a joke. Once we travelled with big group of scuba divers. And one diver had his torch in the cabin bag. It was wrapped into socks to prevent it from breaking. Some way the torch got turned on. (Scuba diving torches are really powerful, thus heat decently). As a result socks heated up and smoke appeared in the whole plane. Nobody had any idea where the smoke is coming from. The personnel was running back and forth trying to find where it comes from. Their arms were shaking. No result. Even though alcohol on board was only for extra charge, personnel started offering it for free to passengers (probably to calm them down).
Eventually one of scuba divers decided to check his cabin bag. After opening it the huge amount of smoke rushed out of the bag.
It ended up well. It’s good that it wasn’t in the baggage section of the plane, coz fire could have started in there.
So electronics in baggage prohibition is no joke.
I initially thought you meant like a cutting torch and was very concerned, but then remembered torch is also used to refer to flashlights/handheld lights lol
…Which is something that TSA would fully allow onto the plane and might not even qualify as “electronics” to be removed during checkin.
That’s not dropping all the protocols, it’s upgrading everyone to PreCheck
Having kids was that moment for me. Let me tell you: with children you are allowed to take as much liquid as you want through security. Even boiling water, to prepare formula 😂
I was like “WHAT? Why do you take it away for other passengers?” Just so they have to buy shitty, overpriced beverages, or what?
pro tip, you are allowed to bring empty bottles that you can fill up in the bathroom sinks
That’s because no parent would ever be a terrorist. What kind of a heartless monster would put their kids in danger?
terrorist organizations begin recruiting single mothers…
America thrives off of marketing a sense of security. That’s one of the ways they gain ownership of your soul and humanity.
I hear they are eating cats and dogs.
What if a terrorist organization just recruits a straight christian white dude. I doubt TSA would check him too closely.
Hate to break it to you but straight Christian white dudes are pretty much THE demographic for domestic terrorist
Edit : I am a straight Christian white dude
I am a straight Christian white dude
We get it you’re looking for a job
You have to submit your CV and a cover letter as well as go on our website and fill out 500 little boxes all of which are answered by your CV.
Well as long as he’s wearing a maga cap
Security funding is just art funding filtered through fear.
Of course. How do you think it worked before Dubya’s jobs program went into effect?
It also varies from airport to airport. I get frustrated when I travel because I always get yelled at by TSA agents for following the directions of the previous airport. Some places want all devices out. Some only want laptops. Some want the bag of travel liquids out in their gallon bag. Some allow you to leave them in. But they all act like I’m supposed to know what their particular rules are.
This is based on the TYPE of scanner each checkpoint has and that frequently differs from airport to airport.
The problem is, most of THEM don’t even know that, so yeah, you appear mind-bogglingly stupid to them and they look needlessly arcane and possibly deliberately cruel and rude to you.
But… Don’t they deal with people from all over the country and world constantly? Ignorance can’t be an excuse at that point.
It’s the US, they don’t really know about the rest of the world, and apparently a fair number of them aren’t sure what New Mexico or DC actually are and whether people from there ought to be arrested or not.
This is America. Ignorance is the goal.
My last airport experience was being stuck in line while the TSA people extremely aggressively screamed at some very elderly Hispanic grandparents who didn’t have great English or great hearing for a very long time. They genuinely were trying to do their best.
I get that it’s frustrating or whatever but holy shit they do like power tripping stuff too I feel like. The elderly gentleman thought he was supposed to approach to show I.d. but they wanted him to go somewhere else and they treated him like he was going to be an active shooter or something.
Everybody lies. Airport XYZ let me keep my fully assembled IED why is it an issue here.
You’re right, the literally 1000s of people going through there daily all tell the same lie. I get you need to follow the protocols of your airport regardless of what another one does. But it would be pretty bloody obvious other ones actually are doing things differently.
I mean just let me wear my fucking belt. I can deal with a lot of indignity, but holding my fucking pants up in line is just insult to injury when you’re passing me through mothingfucking millimeter wave.
I have a belt with a plastic buckle/cinch thing now that i always make sure is my “flight belt” for this reason. Even for events i know will have security check points for access. I’ve only ever had to take it off ONE time in like 8-9 years and that was flying out of Dublin airport to mainland Europe last month- i had already gone through the scanner and I got flagged. Security dude said it had nothing to do with plastic vs. metal belt, just that it was a “bulky area” that something could be in……well, fair enough, i guess.
i carried a velcro cable tie once and used it between my belt loops, I’ve never remembered since.
I hate the TSA, and I strongly suspect they are largely a mirage, but I don’t agree that this indicates they are admitting it’s a mirage. It’s almost never the purpose of any kind of inspection to have 100% coverage, just to shift the balance of probabilities as far as necessary until it’s a deterrent. They could be shrugging and giving up in the face of a large number of people to process, but they could also just be making a well-informed trade-off.
DON’T SAY BOMB!
The handful of times I have flown in the past two years, all the airports I’ve been at no longer require you to take out electronics or your toiletries bag.
