{"id":11520,"date":"2023-09-18T09:59:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T09:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comfort-hotel-paris-roissy.com\/?p=11520"},"modified":"2023-09-18T09:59:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T09:59:17","slug":"travelers-rant-about-tsa-airport-checks-and-the-items-taken-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comfort-hotel-paris-roissy.com\/travel\/travelers-rant-about-tsa-airport-checks-and-the-items-taken-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Travelers rant about TSA airport checks and the items taken away"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Plane passengers rant about TSA airport checks as they share VERY bizarre stories about which items did and didn&#8217;t make it on board<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>In a Reddit thread, travelers have been venting their frustrations about TSA<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>One woman detailed how her husband flew a &#8216;few times&#8217; with a large knife\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Meanwhile, when she went through TSA with Pop Tarts they were confiscated\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Have you ever had something confiscated by TSA at the airport that&#8217;s made you annoyed?<\/p>\n<p>Well, in a Reddit thread, a fleet of travelers have been venting their frustrations about security checks by revealing some of the most ridiculous items they&#8217;ve been forced to part ways with and some of the more suspicious things that made it through.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One woman detailed how her husband flew a &#8216;few times&#8217; with a large knife accidentally secreted in his carryon bag and &#8216;recently with a small one in his pocket.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, when she went through the scanner with Pop Tarts they were confiscated and a &#8216;scent sachet thing like people use in drawers&#8217; was cut open because the contents were &#8216;suspected explosives.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/15\/19\/75436785-12518815-In_a_Reddit_thread_travelers_have_been_venting_their_frustration-a-74_1694803218526.jpg\" height=\"425\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>In a Reddit thread, a fleet of travelers have been venting their frustrations about security checks by revealing some of the most ridiculous items they&#8217;ve been forced to part ways with and some of the more suspicious things that made it through (stock image)<\/p>\n<p>One Redditor noted that it isn&#8217;t just TSA that has varying rules for America, and security checks are equally random all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>They wrote: &#8216;My friend somehow got a folding knife through US customs, then China customs, and finally Japan customs&#8230; apparently international TSA is just as useless as the US ones. &#8216;<\/p>\n<p>Knives aside, many travelers revealed in the thread that camera lenses often present a problem with security officers.<\/p>\n<p>One commenter said: &#8216;We are photographers who travel a lot and 90 per cent of the time our camera bags get pulled and checked for gunpowder.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;m so used to it by now that we get to the airport an extra 30 minutes on top of the two hours because this always happens.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Another Redditor shared a similar story, writing: &#8216;My husband brought a professional camera with many lenses and they were VERY keen on checking out these Mysterious Metal Objects. They even checked them for (gunpowder?) residue.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Other commenters vented about milk in baby bottles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One mom, who had recently flown from Denver, said the TSA they made a &#8216;huuuuuuuge a** stink&#8217; about her breastmilk in bottles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She explained: &#8216;[At] our home airport San Francisco, the TSA are a**holes but the breastmilk wasn&#8217;t a huge deal (they checked it and it was all done).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;At Denver they held my milk hostage acting like they didn&#8217;t know what to do with it but at the same time, acting like it was a huge threat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I hovered over those TSA line a hawk while they held my milk staring at each other.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;In the end the head TSA [officer] was like &#8220;yeah, it&#8217;s not a big deal just give it back to them.&#8221; All that for nothing.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/14\/16\/75436779-12518815-image-a-44_1694705165922.jpg\" height=\"420\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Many travelers reveal in the thread that camera lenses often present a problem when they are getting checked by security officers (stock image)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/16\/13\/75436787-12518815-After_reading_the_thread_one_Redditor_suggested_that_the_biggest-a-7_1694866506692.jpg\" height=\"359\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>After reading the thread, one Redditor suggested that the biggest issue with TSA is that &#8216;every airport does things a little bit differently&#8217; (stock image)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another testing TSA encounter, saw one traveler held up over a packet of custard.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Detailing the incident, they wrote: &#8216;I was made to wait for one hour by an airport security agent when I had a pack of custard in my bag for a really long international flight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;At the time I had a health condition where I could not eat anything else and it was going to be the only thing I was going to eat in 24 hours &#8211; if I didn&#8217;t eat it I would have ended up getting sicker.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They wanted their manager to talk to me and put me in a separate room. After 45 minutes I ventured out of the room (nervous about my flight departure) and they had completely forgotten about me.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Their manager came and within 30 seconds was like &#8220;WTF of course you can keep your custard,&#8221; and let me go.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>After reading the thread, one Redditor suggested that the biggest issue with TSA is that &#8216;every airport does things a little bit differently.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>They noted that at some airport security checks they ask you to stack the bins whereas at others they don&#8217;t, and some TSA officers require travelers to &#8216;stand in line vs find a place in the row.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The Redditor then criticized the TSA officers for their manners.<\/p>\n<p>They wrote: &#8216;But they act like you&#8217;re an idiot for getting something slightly wrong or hesitating momentarily.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Why they can&#8217;t put up a little bit of clarifying signage is beyond me. But they&#8217;re super aggro and I&#8217;d pay extra too just to avoid them.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another Redditor who works in the aviation industry agreed with the issue around varying rules.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They said: &#8216;I work in the aviation industry and TSA is such a joke. One of my biggest complaints is that they all don&#8217;t screen the same way!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Flew out of Minneapolis airport on Mother&#8217;s Day, we were allowed to keep our shoes on AND keep electronics in backpacks. 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