The easiest way to avoid this is to make sure you always pack a bomb on purpose.
Or just be non-white. Then you will know you are going to be selected for a special screening.
That this can and does ever happen to anybody is how you know the TSA is an abject failure of an organization.
For me, it’s all the suck brought on by a pathological fear (trauma) of authority figures abusing their power. In this case: TSA, and their ability to completely screw with your travel plans. To be clear, this is not rational and 100% nothing bad happens.
As someone who goes through TSA several times a week. Nah fuck that, some of the smurfs are absolutely there to fuck your day up just because they can. I’d say about 60% of the officers are highly mediocre, about 30% are good, but that last 10% are just malicious.
*Don’t say ‘bomb’. Don’t accidentally say ‘bomb’. Don’t say ‘bomb’.
“Hey, I didn’t bring a bomb! DOH!”
Me on my steamdeck at an airport: “okay, this game doesn’t talk about bombs or guns, right?”
I’m sure counter strike would be a decent option
Did this on a flight to Venice. Except it was a large firecracker, but at a glance it looked like a half stick of dynamite. I still have no idea how I got away with it.
The same way people board planes with loaded fire arms? The TSA is run by dumbfucks and is a waste of money.
Should’ve specified this was Venice, Italy. Baggage screening was in the UK where they’re very much not used to firearms/explosives in hand luggage.
Fair enough, my dumb autistic ass somehow thought Venice beach and Italy simultaneously. Which is borderline demented, I blame EU4 and CK2 where I just assume Venice is causing me trouble and doing weird esoteric shit.
More like “Did I really lock my front door?”
I always get concerned that somehow I have packed hard drugs (I don’t do hard drugs.)
For my next trick, I shall pull a condom full of coke out of your ass. I assure you we did not plant it ahead of time.
Don’t read this comic at the airport.
Mine is a knife, reach in to entry pockets at TSA baggage xray, a moment where I’m afraid I’ll pull out a giant knife
I carry a pocket knife everywhere, so this one is a legit concern for me. It is as natural as putting on my clothes for me to put my knife in my pocket, so I’m always concerned that I accidentally put my knife in my pocket, despite being very intentional about leaving it behind. I paid $280 for the thing, so it would be a damned shame to lose it to stupid-ass TSA.
Pack some prepaid package envelopes with your home as the destination. TSA got a problem with your nail clipper? Leave your favorite knife in your pocket by accident? Put it in the envelope and drop it in any USPS box.
That’s a great idea! Do they have mailboxes at the airport?
But think how safe you would be if you did pack a bomb.
The odds of there being one bomb on a plane are tiny enough, but the odds of there being two bombs on a plane are vanishingly small…
The only way to stop a bad guy with a bomb…
You really need to pack one bomb for each family member really. Kid’s bombs just help lower the odds to virtually zero.
There is no need to pack a bomb for a flight. Just buy the parts and ingredients you need to build one in the duty-free shop after the TSA security theater.
Do they sell electrical switches, or lighters back there, or am I supposed to rub two sticks together to ignite it?
You do not need any of this. You should know some chemistry and physics, but you can get everything you need to make a bang.
Are you serious that there are chemical combinations for sell behind the security checkpoint that’ll make a large explosion?
They obviously do not.
I’m not necessarily worried about actually packing one, but I do feel nervous about saying the word out loud accidentally.
I am sure Tourette’s syndrome sufferers are sweating bullets. Or was it bombs?
If you’re traveling somewhere with extremely restrictive drug laws (e.g. Singapore), you can be sentenced to prison for drug particles on your shoes. i.e. you can accidentally have forbidden substances on you.
Do they test everyone’s shoes or do you just have to be extremely unlucky?
I’d assume they’re just doing the rounds with drug sniffer dogs. Those dogs have crazy sensitivity.
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