Stupid tips to help travellers during the holiday season

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You never know what they will confiscate - during the no lighters allowed period, they took my eyeglass repair kit but didn't even realize I had a lighter in my coat pocket and 2 in my carry on. Hafe the time it makes no sense!

[kyshel]

Who knows anymore???

I gotta warn Bonnie tho--there was the guy who had a can of tennis balls in his carry-on and the dogs went crazy over his bag:
they were trained with a reward of playtime w/TB's and just wanted some FUN. Poor guy did nothing wrong.
I doubt TSA agents would react the same way but you never know!

[bonniejoy03]

I love it!!! My husband is ALWAYS the one in the customs hall trying to play with the dogs!!



We did have a problem with golf balls once. We had them in this carry on little zipper bag from the Little League World Championship. The bag was scanned and my husband was pulled into a seperate room and asked to identify the contents of his luggage. He named almost everything in there...they kept pushing him on to identify more. He couldn't figure it out. It finally dawned on him he had a bag full of golf balls. Guess it shows up like something scary!!

[LL_Travelfan]

Hi,



Many, many years ago, way before all that security jazz, my husband after playing tennis wound up in the hospital with a punctured lung. We didn't want to miss our planned trip to Caneel Bay a couple of days later, so he checked himself out of the hospital and off we went on our trip. Since he had trouble walking, the airline put him into a wheel chair and he took his very fancy cane. No problem on the way out. However, on the way back, in San Juan, (my husband was still in a wheel chair) the customs' agent didn't like his cane at all. He twisted the silver head off, looking for a conceiled stiletto or sword, or more likely conceiled drugs at that time, I guess. He unravelled all the leather binding around the cane and generally ruined the cane beyond repair. It wasn't until Paris, that we found an expert, dealing in antique canes, who was able to put the cane back together at great expense.



I guess canes are out these days...

[LL_Travelfan]

Well, if this is true, these guys eat well....

One year, coming back from Jamaica, they pulled over an old Jamaican lady, opened her suitecase, and it was filled with nothing but plantains... It all went into the garbage bin - I hope they enjoyed plantains...

[Mountie]

bonniejoy03, remember don't try to take the knives and forks from El Silencio. You WILL get caught at the airport.

[LL_Travelfan]

To exflygirl's "Hikers/Trekkers: If youuse your daypack as your carryon, don't forget to put the swiss army knife in the check luggage." I would add pack your Hiking sticks or Nordic Walking Sticks into your luggage as well.

[bonniejoy03]

Were you the TSA agent at Miami???



Each day at work while I am enjoying my morning yogurt, I look down at my Lan Chile spoon and smile!!!

[betsyv]

As some may know, I travel a lot to Asia on business. But recently, my husband and I were invited to a good friends wedding. It was fun, fabulous and very different. At the end, there were fireworks. As we had come the farthest distance, they gave us a very special placard that was a decoration at the reception. It had their names in Chinese, the date, dragons and some things dangling off of it. Not thinking a thing about it, we packed it and off we went. Well going through security, we were pulled and long story short accused of having explosives. Apparently the things dangling off were FIRECRACKERS!! Luckily, I have a special clearance and pass for Hong Kong and they speak the King's English there and we were able to explain the circumstances. They let us go on with the decoration but with all the firecrackers removed of course. It was a pretty unnerving experience.

[LL_Travelfan]

Hi bestyv,



This is a very funy story, but you could have been in deep dodo.... luckily you had friends in high places! Firecrackers are definitely no nos in todays security-concious world... try not to conceal them in your underware....