Rick Scott 🏳️⚧️Geneva Airport post-security. 🤣 #SecurityTheatre
Stoneface Vimes@shadowspar my wife had her Swiss army knife confiscated at the airport. It was quite a basic one too that I'd bought her for her birthday. And she'd forgotten it was clipped on her key ring.
Nemo@capnthommo
Reminds me when I got an umbrella confiscated. In the UK.
It was described, with no trace of irony, as a "lethal weapon".
It was a perfectly banal one, which you could have bought at the airport.
BoredomFestival@iinavpov @capnthommo @shadowspar In the early 90s, I flew to San Jose for an Apple WWDC event. At a vendor event I won a "Super Soaker" water gun, which was the fun new toy of the time, that looked a lot like the image below.
I had only carryon luggage, so I proceeded to security (which, pre-9/11, was way more chill about pocketknives and such)... Only to be told off by a very huffy security agent that "Replicas of Weapons" were not allowed on board, and I'd have to check the item.