Well folks, I'm still trying to catch up. I had the wonderful privilege of flying to the cesspit known as Las Vegas for a business meeting on Monday and returning Tuesday. I got to stay in the Hilton but alas was too cheap to fork over the $38 to have the Star Trek experience. As I walked through the gift shop looking at all the Star Trek stuff I felt my inner jock screaming for escape. I like watching the shows but this was just too much for me so I went to the Barry Manilow store and felt all my masculinity slip away as I looked at his ruffled shirt in a display case.
At any rate, the return trip was quite a treat as I was subjected to some additional security measures that were not available in my local airport. For nearly an hour I waited in line and then was subjected to the air blowing machine that did nothing to help me with my bad hair situation. The belt that passed easilly through the metal detector at the home airport wouldn't work here and had to go through the Xray machine along with my shoes, coat, and one small sachel that I carry my magazines, book, notepaper, keys, MP3 player, etc. Well as I'm holding up my pants and feeling completely naked they flag my satchel for something suspicious. They have me go over to a table, still in socks and holding up my pants as they go through my bag. They swab it will all kinds of patches and take out my car keys which I never check with my other bag for fear they will be lost. A fear I developed after watching an airline lose an entire baseball team's luggage and gear on a one leg flight.
Those keys were very suspicious as the TSA girl proceeded to pen my oil vile and spill olive oil all over her hands. She wiped it up with some tissue handed it back and never said a word. There were no questions as to what it was or anything. She just handed it back and said I was cleared. She never said what she was looking for or anything. Nothing like consecrating the hands of the TSA worker.
Just a heads up. You many want to put your keychain oil vial in checked luggage if you happen to end up in the "suspicous looking white guy line" at the airport. Unfortunately, I generally don't check luggage because of the baseball team incident.
Jason, thanks for the warning. There must be a significant risk of an ex-mormon-turned-terrorist fashioning a keychain oil vial into some kind of explosive device. Can't be to careful, ya know.
And Arbi, why can't we have a :rollseyes: graemlin?
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My husband has gotten his keychain examined before too, although they haven't opened it as yet. And they never say anything or ask what it is. I guess that would be a dumb question anyway. Do they really expect you to admit that you're carrying explosive materials or whatever they suspect? I guess they don't want to hear the creative excuses those 'ex-mormon-turned-terrorists' can come up with.
I'd heard about the oil thing going through security. But I hadn't thought about how they would be even stricter about that now with the tighter restrictions on liquids. I personally think that the liquid restrictions are silly. They're seeing how much they can get away with. I read a commentary after the incident with the terrorists in England that it would actually be very hard to mix a liquid bomb on an airplane sufficiently strong to do significant damage. It would really require an expert bomb maker, and they're not typically the ones who go on suicide missions.
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I'd heard about the oil thing going through security. But I hadn't thought about how they would be even stricter about that now with the tighter restrictions on liquids. I personally think that the liquid restrictions are silly. They're seeing how much they can get away with. I read a commentary after the incident with the terrorists in England that it would actually be very hard to mix a liquid bomb on an airplane sufficiently strong to do significant damage. It would really require an expert bomb maker, and they're not typically the ones who go on suicide missions.
Yea, terrorist brain drain is a serious issue in the middle east!
My dad had a little brass vial on his keychain--not for oil but for nitroglycerin pills. He had a few heart attacks and was at risk for more, so he carried it with him wherever he went. I think that's what those little vials were originally designed for, btw. I believe they are called pill fobs.
What would happen in todays security environment?
"Sir, what's this vial?"
"Nitroglycerin"
You can imagine the reponse...
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Eventually they'll strip everyone at the security gate, close them in a box with an air supply for shipping, and lose a certain percentage of these people boxes the same as they lose baggage.
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams
She never said what she was looking for or anything. Nothing like consecrating the hands of the TSA worker.
