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Kommander wrote:
Last time a giant pair of scissors somehow got into my toiletry bag.
How giant?
According to TSA guidelines, you can bring a pair of scissors onto an airplane with blades up to 4" long, even if the ends are pointy.
Of course, you can't bring a 1"-bladed Leatherman Micra...
Hmm...I don;t have them any more but I have a similar pair and the actual sharpened part of the blades on those are less than 4". Of course the TSA is going to enforce whatever rules they feel like so it does not really matter.
Kommander wrote:
Last time a giant pair of scissors somehow got into my toiletry bag.
How giant?
According to TSA guidelines, you can bring a pair of scissors onto an airplane with blades up to 4" long, even if the ends are pointy.
Of course, you can't bring a 1"-bladed Leatherman Micra...
PRUNING shears probably don't meet the TSA guidelines. And who came up with the 4" guidelines - no doubt a woman who thinks 4" is more likely a MEASURED 2". Remember, most women are TERRIBLE at determining distance and size - you tell them 4" and they think 2"!!!
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Yet you can carry on a good ol fashioned, steel Craftsman screwdriver in the flavor of your choice as long as the steel part is under 6". Did it fairly recently by accident. I fully expected to lose it, but Thousands Standing Around measured it and handed it right back to me.
Kommander wrote:
Last time a giant pair of scissors somehow got into my toiletry bag.
How giant?
According to TSA guidelines, you can bring a pair of scissors onto an airplane with blades up to 4" long, even if the ends are pointy.
Of course, you can't bring a 1"-bladed Leatherman Micra...
PRUNING shears probably don't meet the TSA guidelines. And who came up with the 4" guidelines - no doubt a woman who thinks 4" is more likely a MEASURED 2". Remember, most women are TERRIBLE at determining distance and size - you tell them 4" and they think 2"!!!
That's what she said.
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Steamforger wrote:Yet you can carry on a good ol fashioned, steel Craftsman screwdriver in the flavor of your choice as long as the steel part is under 6". Did it fairly recently by accident. I fully expected to lose it, but Thousands Standing Around measured it and handed it right back to me.
Steamforger wrote:Yet you can carry on a good ol fashioned, steel Craftsman screwdriver in the flavor of your choice as long as the steel part is under 6". Did it fairly recently by accident. I fully expected to lose it, but Thousands Standing Around measured it and handed it right back to me.
That's just made every single bullshit security thing pointless.
The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.
I carried on a two piece fly rod in a 5 foot long aluminum case with machined end caps. I may not have the length exactly right, but it was short enough to fit into the overhead bins on a 737. Used appropriately, it could have left a mark.
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HTRN wrote:You know, this makes me wonder about the socalled "combat canes". If you have a note from doctor, and bring one with you, what can they say to you? It's really only a very heavy, very solidly built cane. Hell, I'd consider just buying a length of heavywall aluminum tubing, borrowing a tube bender and TIG, and slap a rubber bumper on it.
How about a recently-broken carbon-fiber hockey stick with a bumper and lockable handle? You can put some ouch behind the lighter ones.
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