Ratchet tie-downs allowed on a plane?

[Shaun @ Tru6]

can you take ratchet tie downs in your carryon luggage on a commercial flight? TSA doesn't list them, or rope, or anything like them, but I'm sure they'll cause a stir.

[70SATMan]

Originally Posted by Shaun 84 Targa

can you take ratchet tie downs in your carryon luggage on a commercial flight? TSA doesn't list them, or rope, or anything like them, but I'm sure they'll cause a stir.

Man, I would'nt even try that. They once took away one of my mini 5/16" wrenches I had left in my laptop case. The thing was about 4" long. TSA dork looked at me after pulling it out of my bag and said "Don't you know this is a tool?" I looked at him with the biggest grin I could muster and said "Yes". Dope actually asked me if I wanted to ship it! LOL.

I often wonder how long it would take me to disconnect an armrest if I'd only been allowed to carry it on.

[Joeaksa]

You will have to check it underneath.

It could be used to tie someone up so they do not allow them in the cabin...

[Shaun @ Tru6]

thanks. that blows. looks like I'll just buy some there.

[john70t]

Mabye, the tie-down could be sharpened on the armrest and used as a close-quarters Kusarigama!
I remember back in junior high, a friend got pissed off and stabbed another's hand with a pencil. It almost went halfway through. Imagine a blow to the carotid/eyes using a shoe as a shield!

So the TSA ignores layers of bullet-proof cockpit doors with cameras, and decides to anally rape every passenger instead.
There's where your 500+billion dollars went: "Progress" under Bush.

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Changed my mind. Going to throw them in a backpack, if they make it through, great, otherwise they'll just be checked. They are new and packaged with heavy zipties holding them together, but yes, I know, common sense has nothing to do with TSA or the "winners" they hire as screeners.

[Joeaksa]

Originally Posted by john70t

So the TSA ignores layers of bullet-proof cockpit doors with cameras, and decides to anally rape every passenger instead.
There's where your 500+billion dollars went: "Progress" under Bush.

Hey mr know it all! This is my world and I go through it more than most anyone on this forum getting to airline around the world in my job. Please tell us all you know about the cockpit doors? I can get in one if needed in less than 15 seconds but then I am a pilot and aircraft mechanic and should know how they work.

This is a kneejerk reaction to the terrorists and everyone in both the house and senate voted for what is being done at the airports and such where Americans travel and the terrorists try to kill them.

Your comment about this being President Bush's fault is way off base. Just remember that Obama wants to negotiate with the terrorists, so hope you are happy when he gives in to anything that they need or want while shooting your worthless rear end.

Joe

PS Try not to smile so much next time the TSA does the "anal probing check" on you cause it will show that you enjoy it so much! Remember that they are doing it for your safety!

[the]

You'll never make it. I had to leave this behind!

[9dreizig]

Originally Posted by the

You'll never make it. I had to leave this behind!

Isn't that the secret tool used to get into the cockpit ?? Hey Joe, I'd like to think that my pilot is packing and doesn't mind using it when the bad guys do get into the cockpit.....

[LakeCleElum]

I dunno - Give it a try.....

I recently took a carry-on that had all the bolts to attach the wings onto a Boeing 747....Took them all the way to Dubai.....I got checked out and triple x-rayed, but I was getting paid a lot to deliver overnight and wasn't gonna risk have a checked bag lost...

[dtw]

Give it up Joe, he's got terminal BDS.

Shaun, have a safe trip. Guess you haven't painted the wall with the contents of your skull yet, that's always a plus.

[rsNINESOOPER]

Uh, I managed to get through airport security with a backpack containing nothing but a bowling ball with three feet of heavy duty chain bolted to it and a combination lock on the other end of the chain. I got some very strange looks from the security folks when they pulled it out of the backpack but was only asked to explain what its purpose was. They simply nodded, giggled, and handed it over to me. Then again I,m the guy who walks through customs with a box of cubans sticking out of my backpack returning from Egypt and just get waived through. I figure to play the idiot when it comes to stuff like that and it works great.

I say roll the dice on the tiedowns, just dont piss them off by bringing a full bottle of shampoo or some such nonsense, or heaven forbid a 3/4" long swing out nail file on a nail clipper cause you could really F someone up with that.

[jcunning]

Getting things through security seems to depend on the airport how busy it is.

You won't believe this one.

I brought back some hot chcken wing sauce from upstate NY and knew there was no way I could carry it on, so I checked it in my suitcase...

Wouldn't you know it, I get called down to security as my chicken wing sauce flagged some alarm!

I had to throw it out or else my bag wouldn't get on the plane. Oh well.

The TSA guy was a real prick about it. Like it was some kind of secret explosive sauce or something. Everyone else around him was laughing at the episode.

Personally I think they wanted to keep it for themselves, but that is just my opinion.

TSA = Thousands Standing Around

[legion]

I LOVE the Central Illinois Regional Airport!

Whenever I have questions like this, I just swing by the airport and ask the TSA guys. They've always been polite and courteous (the ones at BMI at least). Most of the time, it's the same guy I asked a question to that examines my bags later on. I think they appreciate me asking ahead of time rather than being shocked and angry when I've broken some new rule.

[Christien]

http://www.thespec.com/News/CanadaWorld/article/377499

Pistol pendant security risk?
Airport has woman put trinket into checked baggage
May 30, 2008
Brett Popplewell
Toronto Star
(May 30, 2008)

The Colt 45 hung cold around her neck, like a pendant.

Because it was a pendant.

On Monday, Marnina Norys was forced to remove a piece of silver jewellery, cast in the shape of an antique pistol, by airport security in Kelowna, B.C., who feared the trinket posed a security risk to the passengers of her WestJet flight.

Approaching the security desk, the 39-year old PhD student of social political thought at York University says she was stunned when guards labelled the five-centimetre long pendant a replica firearm.

"When the woman pointed at the pendant I had no idea what she was talking about," says Norys, who was informed that replica firearms are banned. "They made me feel ashamed, as if I should have known that it was wrong to wear this type of jewellery."

Flustered, Norys stuffed the pendant into her carry-on. Next, a security guard told Norys she'd have to check her jewellery under the plane because of its symbolic importance.

After checking the trinket and arriving back in Toronto, Norys told the creator of the pendant, Calvin Dana Munroe of Toronto's Bad Ass Jewellery, about the incident. He said it was absurd.

Norys has since received an official apology from the Canadian Air Transport Authority for the incident.

"The screening officer involved made a judgment call, rather than refer to the authority's standard operating procedures," Dave Smith, director of screening operations with CATSA, wrote in a letter to Norys. "In retrospect, your revolver-shaped pendant is not a threat and should have been allowed on-board the aircraft."

Norys isn't satisfied with the explanation.

"The problem wasn't that she didn't follow operating procedures. It's that she didn't use her judgment at all."

[70SATMan]

Originally Posted by rsNINESOOPER

Uh, I managed to get through airport security with a backpack containing nothing but a bowling ball with three feet of heavy duty chain bolted to it and a combination lock on the other end of the chain. .

What I want to know is how you stuffed your wife in that backpack? How big was that thing?

[onewhippedpuppy]

Originally Posted by 70satman

what I Want To Know Is How You Stuffed Your Wife In That Backpack? How Big Was That Thing?

Nice.

[john70t]

Originally Posted by Joeaksa

PS Try not to smile so much next time the TSA does the "anal probing check" on you cause it will show that you enjoy it so much! Remember that they are doing it for your safety!

Actually I was coming back from Hawaii (2002?) from a friends wedding and had my nuts grabbed by the TSA dude. Yeah. Choice:deck or not to deck, deck or not to deck?
That was the last time I flew. I'll try and support Greyhound and Amtrack from now on whenever possible.

The whole orange-level thing was done in with about as much focus as the war on terror. There is no focus and no standards.
Do the airlines really want to piss off their customers, while they themselves get bailed out time and again with federal dollars?

Meanwhile another toothpaste tube gets tossed on the pile, while Mexican trucks get a (seachless) fast-pass across the border, and Saudi companies own whole US ports.

[onewhippedpuppy]

Enjoy your Greyhound ride with the crackheads and teenage prostitutes.

[john70t]

Oooohh, teenage prostitutes
Amtrack(fuel efficient) and Greyhound are still struggling, while the airlines get a blank check? Not fair.