Richelle Ahlvers
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.
Andreas@shadowspar I believe those kind of knives you can actually take through security.
I once forgot one in my bag, cop was called, cop measured the blade length and decided I'm good to go.
So overall, yeah good example Security Theatre but minor errors in the details. 🙂
Jonathan Smith@ixs @shadowspar I guess it depends on the country/airport. My knife, which was similar to the ones in the OP got confiscated in Manchester, UK, when my wife forgot about it in her hiking rucksack. It did have a pair of tweezers in it though, so 🤷♂️
They offered to mail it to me for £50 🙄
GinGoddess@shadowspar I think they have to be given to the pilot, or put in the hold, if you buy one.
The Flying Bun@shadowspar I've bought one of those in Switzerland yeah. I think it was even BEFORE security and then you got it in a special bag that allowed you to take it through.....
FKA ZOG
Squiggle@zog @shadowspar Odd conclusion after writing an entire article saying you can buy a duty free knife just before boarding: "skip the Swiss Army knives! You can always pick up one of those on Amazon when you get home"
Ben Taylor@shadowspar I accidentally got through Vancouver airport security with one of those not once but twice a while back (like about twenty years ago).
Went through security once, flight was delayed by about 18 hours (turned out the door to the flight deck has three locks, needs one working to fly, all three were broken so they had to fly a new lock from Toronto to Vancouver before the plane could leave) so they bussed us to a hotel for the night.
Went through security again. Only after the flight did I realise the side pocket of my hand luggage contained my Swiss army knife in amongst a bunch of loose AA batteries, which evidently it looked a lot like on the scanner.
Guessing it wouldn't work these days though.
geoff martin@shadowspar In the UK, it's legal to take a pocket knife with a blade up to 6 cm through airport security.
In Denmark, you could be put in jail for 7 days for having the same knife in your pocket in public.
maswan@shadowspar
Blades shorter than x cm (x=6 is a common value) are sometimes formally allowed through airport security. But you can't make a habit of carrying a small swiss knife or leatherman, because they'll get confiscated often anyway.
Blades shorter than x cm (x=6 is a common value) are sometimes formally allowed through airport security. But you can't make a habit of carrying a small swiss knife or leatherman, because they'll get confiscated often anyway.
ijk64✅@shadowspar ha. I have the 14 function one. Curiously I accidentally packed it in my carry on once. I didn’t know. They detected something on the scan.
I was made to empty everything out - and they didn’t find anything. After about 10 minutes I was allowed through with everything.
Later I found it in one of my pouches within a bag. To this day I don’t know how we didn’t find it. I still use it (but checked luggage only now).
I was made to empty everything out - and they didn’t find anything. After about 10 minutes I was allowed through with everything.
Later I found it in one of my pouches within a bag. To this day I don’t know how we didn’t find it. I still use it (but checked luggage only now).
@stevewfolds@shadowspar Had 4cm tweezers confiscated in US.
John Caveney woke is me🛠️@shadowspar gotta sell those Swiss Army knives somehow! 😂😂😂
AlisonW (⚾🏟️🏔️🏏)
Stefan Scholl@shadowspar Someone once said, “If you can highjack a plane with a pocket knife, you earned it.”
alfora@shadowspar Background information (to my knowledge):
Switzerland has an awful lot of contracts with the EU. In this case the knives can only be sold IF the flight goes TO another country in the Schengen area.
Airports use different terminals for Schengen flights and for flights outside the Schengen area (and for international flights). You will not find shops that sell knives in other terminals at the same airport.
And you also cannot bring a knife TO Switzerland even from the Schengen area. This exception of the rule only applies to flights FROM Switzerland TO Schengen area.
Cegorach@shadowspar
had one of that situations once
thought about buying whisky in Edinburgh Airport (decided against it, due to it being more expensive than at home), flown to fraport, continued to Dresden
…only Frankfurt had me re-checked through security bullshit again
So if I'd bought that bottle, I'd have had to drop it there.
@drazraeltod I ended up doing something similar, but with a bottle of Dutch Genever. refused at security... 6×100ml bottles purchased, decanted the Genever and took a big gulp of the rest... then passed the checkpoint no problem. 🤣
@shadowspar
yeah, I would have been under a short time limit. So no chance of doing that. But as I said: I checked the prices at home and luckily didn't buy it.
yeah, I would have been under a short time limit. So no chance of doing that. But as I said: I checked the prices at home and luckily didn't buy it.
Z̈oé@shadowspar convenient! you might want to replace the Swiss army knife the "security" threw into the trash 5 minutes ago
Quincy ⁂
Mans R@shadowspar Any of those knives would have been permitted through security. It is mostly theatre, though.
@mansr agree that's how it should be, but it depends on the airport and the person at the checkpoint. I've had a pair of 3cm scissors taken away because they had pointed tips 😒
AW@shadowspar lol, they know what's up
Vladimir Campos
FolksVelo@shadowspar i've lost too many beloved pocket knives to the TSA
creezy@shadowspar I do have questions!
padeluun ⁂
generationX@shadowspar welcome in security theatre. In business class you are given a knive to cut your food.
Hubert Figuière@shadowspar are you flying Swiss? If yes, then I'm so sorry for you. Don't get scolded by the flying crew.
Quantum@shadowspar In the UK a small nailcutter like this one was taken from me. The officer suggested i could stab someone with the top part. He told me that it could be sent to my address. I was so baffled and annoyed, that i told him to keep it.
M Berberich@shadowspar
As far as I know these are allowed on planes, because the blade is short enough.
As far as I know these are allowed on planes, because the blade is short enough.
Spike@shadowspar Fun Fact: it is actualy legal to carry a knife up to a length oft 6cm in inner EU flights or Airport security zones. (Commision Regulation No. 185/2010)
ᴚ uɐᗡ@shadowspar what no HUNTSMAN?!?
I grew up always looking for the one that had the saw AND the scissors, and the philips head... not the corkscrew
😅
Dreadnought Holiday@shadowspar looks like they're in blister packs, so the joke's on you - anything sharp enough to get into those bad boys just got confiscated by security. There's no way you're opening them before the flight lands.