TSA inspectors confiscate knives handed out inflight by airlines

by Charlie Leocha on July 18, 2008

In our Alice-in-Wonderland world of airline security TSA security guards are now confiscating knives that were actually handed out, on-board by the airlines themselves in business and first class. Better yet, the knife in question was confiscated from the a uniformed pilot.

Where oh where is common sense?

A pilot recently being rescreened after landing his international flight in the US was stripped of his butter knife handed out by his airline by TSA security checkers.

The already bizarre rules that require rescreening of all luggage and paggengers already pre-screened by TSA personnel overseas takes a turn for the worse when the pilot that landed the plane is denied passage to his continuing flight because of an airline set of cutlery.

Add this to the case of the one-inch pistol charm and the too-thin MacBook Air and it makes one wonder what sort of characters TSA is hiring to man these sensitive security posts.

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  • Hapgood

    Of course there’s no common sense at TSA checkpoints. The rules promulgated from the top don’t allow for it. The “leadership” at the TSA may be the typical Bush appointees chosen for loyalty rather than competence, but at least they’re astute enough to realize that nobody with even a microgram of common sense would ever choose to work as a Transportation Security Officer.

  • Phlonthehill

    Okay, let me try and understand this. You travelled first class, and felt that the dining utensils were yours to keep. Then you became upset when the TSA took the butter knife from you. Now you are trying to show the irony of the situation, as if the airline was partly at fault. Do you not see anything wrong with this picture?? (other than the TSA took something from you that you had stolen from the airline)

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