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How about not confiscated?
Was in New Orleans for the Jazz Festival.
My wife gets headaches, so we brought an ice bag like this one:
In the morning we fill it with ice in our hotel, and toss it in a backpack. We empty the water at the end of the day.
On the last day, we gather our luggage and gear and head to the airport.
When we got home I realized that my backpack went through the airport scanners with the ice bag full of water. Probably about a quart.
I think that might be above what's allowed.
Some scanners are modern enough to be able to differentiate between water and non-permitted liquids.
I was able to bring a 1L (33floz) on a plane from FRA.
It just needed to go through the scanner. Same with carry-on.
Had a pedal spanner confiscated, I’d borrowed it from a colleague to fix my bike and put it in my laptop bag so I wouldn’t forget it, but sent on a trip before I went back to the office. I bought him the nicest spanner I could find to replace it.
I had a bag of coffee taken. It was from a company called "Doomsday" and had a logo of a gas mask on the bag. It was very clearly labeled as whole bean coffee, but TSA deemed it too unsafe.
because, as everyone knows, terrorists have a colorful sense of humor.
A water bottle with shards of ice in it that had melted partially. I'm being dead ass serious, btw. Happened to me at Louisville airport.
curious, why was there ice in your bottle?
edit: i was genuinely curious guys i’m sorry!?
A very small closed (with the plastic still around it and intact) water bottle. Did not blame the security people though, they are just doing their jobs. But kind of useless to take it away, it was unopened and bought at a store within the airport (even had the receipt).
Never had an issue in the US. Coming back from Cozumel Mexico one of their security people was on a pair of micro wire cutters, had to empty most of a bag so she could "find" them. Then she took it to a supervisor who said it was fine so she gave them back and I wasted another 5 minutes repacking my bag wasting their space. I had flown down with them and passed through TSA again heading home without issue.
When I got to Cozumel they decided I needed extra screening because of all my cases. I was there to SCUBA dive. Woman in front of me lost like six cartons of cigarettes and had to pay a fine. Her husband passed through and was gone, she was pissed... Dude half ass checked my two cases, carry on bag, and personal item bag and sent me on my way.
Never confiscated, but apparently sleeved Magic the Gathering cards look like explosives to the TSA. I kept getting "randomly" searched and being late for flights until I finally asked the dude why I kept getting "randomly" flagged for additional screening and he told me. It was also frequently cold when I was traveling and my suitcase was often left in the trunk of a cold car all day while I was at work and that also makes them suspicious of my belongings.
Is that a common thing? I’ve traveled all across Europe, to Australia, and to the US and never had a single item confiscated.
I travelled to the UK back in the 2000s, and they confiscated a bottle of lens liquid I had mistakenly put in my handluggage rather than the main luggage.
Yes
A bottle of water.
Not really useless, and I volunteered it for disposal... a small LED torch. I was entering New Zealand, which has extremely strict biohazard rules. I remembered that I'd used the torch a few times while beekeeping in the UK. The risk was vanishingly small, but still a risk, so I handed it over and it went in the bin.
A block of Skyrr butter in Iceland. Was told its a liquid. And double checked, yeah, it was considered a liquid
Before even being allowed to queue, security cared a lot that I present some email of the company I'm flying with. I had just sent the QR code to my phone, but the person doesn't have a scanner (so what is this going to prove?) and so she requires seeing the email for the privilege of confiscating toiletries. Of course the airline later scanned it just fine but I'd not have gotten on the airplane that day if I had given my laptop away as checked luggage (didn't have email on phone back then)
Of course she didn't more than glance at it, no identity card check to compare the name or anything. An invoice from my mom's dentist would probably have done the trick. Balancing a laptop on a knee, trying to two-handed type a password that you only know as muscle memory, is the sort of reason they require you to plan two hours "just in case we come up with more bullshit than expected for you or a passenger ahead of you"
And yes, my backpack with electronics needed to be flagged, bomb tested, and the last sip of water needed to be finished because the bottle was theoretically capable of holding an amount over the limit. Makes sense.
A 5mm Allen wrench was taken from me in Istanbul. The 4mm was ok, he looked at both, but the 5 could be dangerous. They were THE EXACT SAME SIZE. Standard L-shape