Has Airport security ever called a 10oz bar a weapon?

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samboyellowsub

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I have indeed met someone who was asked to check his kilo bar flying within New Zealand - I suppose because it could be used to bludgeon someone to death :rolleyes: . But that made me wonder, how silly will they get? So if you have ever had trouble at airport security with multi-ounce piece of silver or gold please share it with us.
 
Nope - I flew with 7kg (7x 1kg bars) in carry on to deliver to a member in Perth once.
 
goldpelican said:
Nope - I flew with 7kg (7x 1kg bars) in carry on to deliver to a member in Perth once.
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ha! thanks for that. you probably guessed why I'd ask this question eh? checking bags back to NZ was extra :lol:
 
Flew up to Kal with a Pamp and a 10 oz coin in carry on.
They made me take them out of the bag and re-xrayed the bag n silver but other than that, no worries.
The Silver is usually a conversation piece with the security people (still get the feeling most don't get it :/ )
 
samboyellowsub said:
I have indeed met someone who was asked to check his kilo bar flying within New Zealand - I suppose because it could be used to bludgeon someone to death :rolleyes: . But that made me wonder, how silly will they get? So if you have ever had trouble at airport security with multi-ounce piece of silver or gold please share it with us.
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Maybe he could then pull out a hacksaw, and by cutting it up into a number of 1 oz silver slivers, then be allowed to transport his silver on the plane. He'd have to check in his hacksaw though. :lol:
 
I have only carried jewellery on carry luggage. No issues.
I have never been stopped or denied for carrying rocks either - and rocks have sharp pointy bits. Questions were raised now and then, but never denied carry on luggage.
 
adze67 said:
Flew up to Kal with a Pamp and a 10 oz coin in carry on.
They made me take them out of the bag and re-xrayed the bag n silver but other than that, no worries.
The Silver is usually a conversation piece with the security people (still get the feeling most don't get it :/ )
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Tell them it is a lottery ticket which is mathematical in your favour =)
Might just be the greatest transfer of wealth in our lifetime.
 
Airport security is a joke. Anyone with half a brain could get whatever they really wanted to past the time servers at the checks.

I was given the full security check because they thought that my luggage scale was an offensive weapon. True story.

It's all designed to scare us and force us into conformity and it's working. Baa Baa.

Only people who remember before the revolution know how sweet life can be.
 
adze67 said:
Flew up to Kal with a Pamp and a 10 oz coin in carry on.
They made me take them out of the bag and re-xrayed the bag n silver but other than that, no worries.
The Silver is usually a conversation piece with the security people (still get the feeling most don't get it :/ )
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Same happens with me all the time.They have no clue at all...
 
Big A.D. said:
samboyellowsub said:
But that made me wonder, how silly will they get?
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Is that a trick question?
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Well I thought a conflab of big burly security about my luggage scale and then a thorough going through of my luggage with explosive seekers and god knows what was pretty silly. It would have been funny if you didn't see the big picture. These are the same 'jobsworths' that help totalitarian regimes prosper.

As you can see I'm still annoyed at such a flagrant example of mindlessness.

After I was cleared I gave them the scale and told them sweet as pie that they might like to demonstrate it at their next training session so other security staff don't waste their time.
Might have well been talking to the dog.
 
That's what I was getting at.

Like, for instance, how you can't take a bottle containing more than 100ml onto the plane...but four 99ml bottles are perfectly okay.
 
Big A.D. said:
Like, for instance, how you can't take a bottle containing more than 100ml onto the plane...but four 99ml bottles are perfectly okay.
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Most likely because it's too dangerous to mix the sulfuric acid, the nitric acid and the glycerol before the flight :P

The original question could probably be formulated as "How flat may a bar be before it could be called a 'blade'"?

As far as I know, there are research reports that indicate that many people feel safer when they have more rules to obey. In case of flights and airplanes, this concept was carried to its extremes. One day, someone will shove a bunch of explosives up his a.., and from that day on, checking in for a flight will mean that all passengers have to undergo a colonoscopy.
 
Big A.D. said:
bottle containing more than 100ml onto the plane...but four 99ml bottles are perfectly okay.
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How many officials would actually clue on if you were to change the label on a 600ml bottle to read 99ml instead?
If you can't beat them, improvise.
 
Brought silver coins and bars back from LAX to Australia on carry-on. They just make you take it out and re xray your bag as silver comes up completely black on the scanner and thus have no idea what it is.
 
Water&Food said:
Big A.D. said:
bottle containing more than 100ml onto the plane...but four 99ml bottles are perfectly okay.
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How many officials would actually clue on if you were to change the label on a 600ml bottle to read 99ml instead?
If you can't beat them, improvise.
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hehe, that's right, I'll just cross out 1 kilo and put 10 ounces
 
I have to tell you a story when misses and I were leaving Mt K-jaro airport Tanzania 2004.

We were in line to go thru security and guy infront in jeans and loose singlet type shirt.

Reaches back and lifts his shirt and pulls out a really big (I have no idea about guns!) handgun.

We were like - WHAT!!

Puts in into the x-ray machine and it goes thru.

Once thru, he reaches and takes it back and puts it back into his jeans!

We were like - whao. Weird.

That flight was oversold two seats and guess who the lucky two people who were bumped? Hahaha. Well, it was stressful at the time due to luggage in Kenya, and had to be in Malawi the next morning... but all worked out well.

Have so many great stories from that trip! Guess what? Nothing happened that was bad! Love Africa.

Picked up an amazing tanzanite that trip.

Shiny.
 
ShinyStuff said:
I have to tell you a story when misses and I were leaving Mt K-jaro airport Tanzania 2004.

We were in line to go thru security and guy infront in jeans and loose singlet type shirt.

Reaches back and lifts his shirt and pulls out a really big (I have no idea about guns!) handgun.

We were like - WHAT!!

Puts in into the x-ray machine and it goes thru.

Once thru, he reaches and takes it back and puts it back into his jeans!

We were like - whao. Weird.

That flight was oversold two seats and guess who the lucky two people who were bumped? Hahaha. Well, it was stressful at the time due to luggage in Kenya, and had to be in Malawi the next morning... but all worked out well.

Have so many great stories from that trip! Guess what? Nothing happened that was bad! Love Africa.

Picked up an amazing tanzanite that trip.

Shiny.
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maybe that's the trick eh? just as long as you act cool, like you know what you're doing, you can board a plane with a handgun
 
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