• AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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    166 hours ago

    *Don’t say ‘bomb’. Don’t accidentally say ‘bomb’. Don’t say ‘bomb’.

    “Hey, I didn’t bring a bomb! DOH!”

  • For me, it’s all the suck brought on by a pathological fear (trauma) of authority figures abusing their power. In this case: TSA, and their ability to completely screw with your travel plans. To be clear, this is not rational and 100% nothing bad happens.

    • @teuto@lemmy.teuto.icu
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      As someone who goes through TSA several times a week. Nah fuck that, some of the smurfs are absolutely there to fuck your day up just because they can. I’d say about 60% of the officers are highly mediocre, about 30% are good, but that last 10% are just malicious.

  • JaggedRobotPubes
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    13 hours ago

    That this can and does ever happen to anybody is how you know the TSA is an abject failure of an organization.

  • @FellowEnt@sh.itjust.works
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    35 hours ago

    Did this on a flight to Venice. Except it was a large firecracker, but at a glance it looked like a half stick of dynamite. I still have no idea how I got away with it.

      • @FellowEnt@sh.itjust.works
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        13 hours ago

        Should’ve specified this was Venice, Italy. Baggage screening was in the UK where they’re very much not used to firearms/explosives in hand luggage.

        • Fair enough, my dumb autistic ass somehow thought Venice beach and Italy simultaneously. Which is borderline demented, I blame EU4 and CK2 where I just assume Venice is causing me trouble and doing weird esoteric shit.

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      For my next trick, I shall pull a condom full of coke out of your ass. I assure you we did not plant it ahead of time.

  • @Snapz@lemmy.world
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    Mine is a knife, reach in to entry pockets at TSA baggage xray, a moment where I’m afraid I’ll pull out a giant knife

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      56 hours ago

      I carry a pocket knife everywhere, so this one is a legit concern for me. It is as natural as putting on my clothes for me to put my knife in my pocket, so I’m always concerned that I accidentally put my knife in my pocket, despite being very intentional about leaving it behind. I paid $280 for the thing, so it would be a damned shame to lose it to stupid-ass TSA.

      • @Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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        Pack some prepaid package envelopes with your home as the destination. TSA got a problem with your nail clipper? Leave your favorite knife in your pocket by accident? Put it in the envelope and drop it in any USPS box.

  • Subverb
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    4410 hours ago

    But think how safe you would be if you did pack a bomb.

    The odds of there being one bomb on a plane are tiny enough, but the odds of there being two bombs on a plane are vanishingly small…

  • @Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    There is no need to pack a bomb for a flight. Just buy the parts and ingredients you need to build one in the duty-free shop after the TSA security theater.

  • @Vincent@feddit.nl
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    58 hours ago

    I’m not necessarily worried about actually packing one, but I do feel nervous about saying the word out loud accidentally.

    • @eleitl@lemm.ee
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      I am sure Tourette’s syndrome sufferers are sweating bullets. Or was it bombs?