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Dec 9, 2023
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Often enough when I travel by airplane, I either bring a few pistols or one of my hunting rifles or AR-15. Of course, I don't try to bring them into the cabin, but... in order to fly with your firearms you have to bring them to the ticket counter of all places and, LOL, open them up for everyone to see. There is NOTHING like opening up a rifle case and displaying your AR-15 or AK 47 in front of an all ready nervous group of travelers. One thing is for sure, it does seem to quiet people down in line who may have been a little pushy.
It’s like the same with where they dispose the liquid containers that exceed the volume…right next to a while line of people. If there was an explosive that’s a lot of casualties. Can’t make this up
 
Dec 9, 2023
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I bought a block of Aunt Leah's Fudge in the airport in Chicago as a gift. I was pulled out of line at security and they had to manually search my bag. Apparently fudge has the same consistency as plastique ! If that's a problem why sell it right outside the security line ??? :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
Same with cheese. When I lived on the west coast I was flying back from Wisconsin with three blocks of cheese and several bags of cheese curds (it was to share with friends and coworkers I totally swear….) and going into the TSA line I had the bad set on top of my carryons and let them know it was cheese.

Still pulled to the side and completely searched as cheese has the density of C4 or so I was told lol
 

sablebrush52

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I bought a block of Aunt Leah's Fudge in the airport in Chicago as a gift. I was pulled out of line at security and they had to manually search my bag. Apparently fudge has the same consistency as plastique ! If that's a problem why sell it right outside the security line ??? :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
So that they can confiscate it, send it back out, and resell it.
That fudge you bought is 20 years old.
 

anotherbob

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I bought a block of Aunt Leah's Fudge in the airport in Chicago as a gift. I was pulled out of line at security and they had to manually search my bag. Apparently fudge has the same consistency as plastique ! If that's a problem why sell it right outside the security line ??? :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
That might just have been quality control for the fudge. I think the person either just didn't like you or thought you had enough fudge.
 

telescopes

Pipe Dreamer and Star Gazer
you did good with that. No one has ever even figured out why some of us call you Steven two Shoes.
The sad part of this story is that more often than not, I wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat after having a dream where I was forced to dig up one of the bodies - sometimes of people I cared about and respected, and move them to a more secure location. When I wake up in the morning, I can only wonder how I allowed myself to go down this path in the first place. El Salvador, in the 80s started out as a humanitarian gig. If only I hadn't had so much to drink that one night in the bar with what I thought were fellow NGOs - who all turned out to be operatives for you know who. What was done was done, but I fear I may burn in Hell for what was required by the Firm in the name of Government security. Hell, just responding to this most likely will get me flagged again by the agency and clearance pulled - once again. It's been decades since I restarted my life, but way too often it seems like yesterday. My brother, who has TS clearance discovered what I did in my past and now he refuses to see me alone. I keep telling him the past is the past. I think this is why I smoke a pipe.
 

Hillcrest

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Dec 3, 2021
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I flew from Connecticut to Ohio to Chicago to Texas and back again same route and was patted down, wanded and bags searched at each connection. The fifth time I explained to the agent that this was my fifth search and asked what I was doing wrong. She said "We have a quota and you look like a nice guy who won't complain" To which I replied " So the angry guy with the wires in his sneakers went right through ??? !!! :ROFLMAO:
 
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