Taking a motorcycle helmet as hand luggage on a flight

I've taken a Leatherman tool on board an Air France flight once (from
Cameroon to Paris) with the blessing of the French Security Guard that
double checked my hand luggage (after passing Cameroonian (sp?)
customs).

I've also had taken on a screwdriver before as it was missed by French
security in Paris.

But in Chicago last year, the fuckers found my lighter secreted away in
my PC case.

 

Eh, that rule for lighters only applies in the US, doesn't it? I've
never had any grief in Europe.

 

A random check is the best means of security. If everyone knows what's
going to happen and where, they can plan to bypass it. Add an element of
randomness, so it's difficult to plan for, which makes us safer without
inconveniencing everyone.

A lot of the new measures are nonsense, but the random person / random
check thing is the best single thing that they can do.

 

Never underestimate the power of hungry officialdom.

 

Who was it that had an "Open the till and give me the money!" dymo label
on the bottom of their visor for just this kind of thing? Was this just
urban legend?

 

Wrong word order there old chap.

"Get into her cockpit" is the correct form.

 

I stand[1] corrected.

[1] Or what ever her preferred position is.

 

In the travel biz there are three types of airline, scheduled, charter
and private charters. Airlines which trade with 2 letter identifiers
are scheduled and those which trade with three letter codes are
charter. Therefore EZY is a charter flight and anyone who works in
travel will agree.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, BGN

Utter bollocks.

The difference between scheduled and charter is well documented, and
it's ****-all to do with the length of the code.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

I have already made the greatest contribution to the fight against climate
change that I can make: I have decided not to breed. Now quit bugging me and
go and talk to the Catholics.

 

The UK travel business must be in a real state then, I'm amazed it's
managed to last this long.

 

Fucking genius.

<Heads for ironmonger's>

 

I know. But "toothpaste tubes" were verboten. And the irony that it was
givedn to me on a BA flight, and I was carrying it onto another BA
flight, was not lost on me.

 

Actually, I'm quietly impressed by that.

 

I've zipped up in the same way as Mick a dive bag. Arrived back in
Heathrow to find the ties cut, nothing missing including the morphine
bottle I liberated from the wreck I dived before coming home.

 

My understanding is that they also get a number of attempts made to
get 'something' through by other personnel testing the ability of the
existing security people..

 

I've arrived at Charles de Gaul and my Samsonite suitcase was, locks
bust open, going around a carousel with everything of value nicked.

AND NO BODY, INCLUDING THE F*CKING FRENCH POLICE, WAS INTERESTED IN
DOING ANYTHING.

Sorry got carried away there.

 

Heh - I once unintentionally did the same at Gatwick, when I arrived
late for my flight, and only realised when I emptied my pockets for keys
that I had forgotten to take out and leave my swiss army knife[1] in my
topbox. So it went through the X-ray machine together with keys, coins
and my watch - and <holy miracle> the guy behind the monitor was too
sleepy to realise that I intended to smuggle an assault weapon onboard
my plane.

They _need_ ability tests.

[1] have had it in my pocket for about 20 years, not keen to allow
anyeone to throw it away

 

Cab wrote in uk.rec.motorcycles:

Actually, you're not allowed to pack lighters into hold luggage and you
are specifically told to put them into hand luggage. I had one of my
hold bags searched in Phoenix airport and they called me back to
security via the tannoy. They had found a souvenir Zippo I had bought
in Winslow and told me I was not allowed to pack it into my bag and I
had to carry it on board. Even though it was brand new and had never
been filled.

 

I came ->that<- close to walking off with a Lufthansa knife from
business class so I could put it in my back pocket and return it to them
on my next flight.

It was probably best that I didn't, however, tempting was not the word
for it.

 

It's around 10%. I had a happy time at Frankfurt one day walking
backwards and forwards through a machine to see how often it went off,
was 3 times in 20 passes, but I guess it's configurable. Surprised no
one stopped me, but being white, blonde and blue eyed, they probably
thought I was one of them. I'll try it with a tea towel on my head next
time.

I'm working on metal in shoes...