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Posted: 6/9/2019 9:45:31 AM EDT
Fuck those guys.
$150 benchmade, which was very specifically placed in my checked baggage, gone. In its place a “notice of baggage inspection” pamphlet. I assume very little, to no recourse? |
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Call them there is anumber on the bottom of the form. They were responsive when I had an issue.
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Pretty sure I lost a Gerber Dime just because they wanted it. They took it in my return flight and I'm pretty sure it's a TSA legal item.
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Can you pack valuables as if it was a firearm? Locked in a pelican case. Only you have the key.
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Stole my surefire E2L outdoorsman flashlight because it “looked like a weapon” TSA generously offered to let me go back to ticketing to mail it home then get back in the line for security that I had just been through and waited 1.5 hrs to clear.
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iPad taken from my carry on while I was subject to a TSA fuckwit wrenching the book off my foot because I wasn't taking it off fast enough (I am mobility and flexibility challenged).
I didn't see my bag opened at the checkpoint, and didn't find it was missing until I was on the plane. |
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TSA used to sell bulk lots of multi-tools
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Taking Shit Away
Stole some items my deceased fathers ol lady was bringing me. |
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Hubby has, I have not. We were going to a family reunion in NY. We found an old picture of one of cousins of hubby's late father. We were taking it to another cousin at the reunion. It was in my hubby's checked bag and wasn't there when we arrived in NY. I think it fell out when they went through his bag, and they didn't give a shit.
He's had other things mysteriously disappear as well. He flies a lot more than I do. |
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Pretty sure I lost a Gerber Dime just because they wanted it. They took it in my return flight and I'm pretty sure it's a TSA legal item. View Quote I might have bought it.....There's a guy on eBay that buys knives and such from the TSA in bulk lots and sells them....Thanks! Attached File |
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I remember listening to Neal Boortz and he saw them steal his camera and left, security wouldn't do anything.
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Are they (TSA) actually stealing stuff or are they confiscating thing under some bullshit policy they have?
How is can they just yank an iPad out of a carry on without someone else noticing they have an iPad while on the job. |
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FOIA for the duty roster and surveillance video.
They got one of the locks off my pistol box when I flew to SHOT a few years ago. The other one held, if they had opened it I would've been out one handgun. |
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I had to go to Tuscaloosa AL several times for work
Even though it was a twelve hr drive from SW Pa, I refuse to put up with the garbage we are subjected to now to fly. Plus with connecting flight to get anywhere other than Philly or Charlotte our of PIT, I maybe would only save 3-4 hours out of my day by flying. Not worth it for freedom of movement and not being treated like a criminal to fly. But I don’t believe I have had anything stolen. I try not to travel with any valuable items that belong to me, if flying. |
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They've taken pocket knives from me twice that I completely forgot were in my pocket (Columbus, OH and Aspen, CO) but they were cheap ones so I didn't care.
The funniest thing they took from me though was a fake plastic silver bullet key chain the NRA sent me (during their silver bullet brigade campaign) . It was obviously fake, plastic and had a frikkin hole drilled through it for the keychain! When I objected, the old TSA guy said "if you held that up in an airplane cabin at 30,000 feet, the next thing you know you have F-16's flying next to you!" I kid you not lol! |
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Well, they hire inner city degenerate mouth breathers who are low/no skill mall cops.
The security guards at my work at all cut from the same cloth. They steal tools and shit ALL the time. I had a full set of proto spline drive ratchet wrenches disappear off my desk between 5pm on friday, and 7am on Saturday. The only people who had access to the building from those hours, were security. You do the math. |
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Are they (TSA) actually stealing stuff or are they confiscating thing under some bullshit policy they have? How is can they just yank an iPad out of a carry on without someone else noticing they have an iPad while on the job. View Quote |
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They've taken pocket knives from me twice that I completely forgot were in my pocket (Columbus, OH and Aspen, CO) but they were cheap ones so I didn't care. The funniest thing they took from me though was a fake plastic silver bullet key chain the NRA sent me (during their silver bullet brigade campaign) . It was obviously fake, plastic and had a frikkin hole drilled through it for the keychain! When I objected, the old TSA guy said "if you held that up in an airplane cabin at 30,000 feet, the next thing you know you have F-16's flying next to you!" I kid you not lol! View Quote Reminds me of the time they confiscated my little boys 5 inch M16 rifle that came with a GI Joe. Yes they did.’ Fuckers are retarded. |
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The airlines also have outlet stores where they sell your "lost" luggage.
It's very profitable. Gotta get a lock box and bolt it into your suitcase these days. Be sure to label TSA Theft deterrent. TSA = people with badges stealing your shit, legally! |
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I just get searched every time I fly. I just avoid it as much as possible. I'll only fly if I'm going out west because it doesn't really save me any time if I'm going less than 12 hours away.
Takes me 2 hours to get to the airport, 2 hours to get through security, another hour waiting for the plane, $100 in drinks to get my wife to get on the flight, 4 hours of air time, half hour waiting on mouth breathers to get off the plane in front of me, an hour to get a rental car and I still have to drive to my hotel. Or I can just fill up my truck and go stopping wherever I feel like along the way. |
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Just went through precheck.
I was afraid they were gonna take my shit, but good news is I made it without issue... |
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They didn't take from me on my last flight but they did give me a nice ladies electric razor, some contact lenses and a small bag of cheap jewelry that I didn't start out with.
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They stole an EMPTY lighter, not butane or anything crazy just a lighter that hadn't worked in years that a old friend had given me and I used to carry for good luck . I'd flown with it many many times but one time all of a sudden I might IDK do something with a fuel-less lighter. ETA I'm not talking about a disposable lighter, it was a nice metal lighter with no fuel.
Wife lost a tiny Swiss Army knife keychain. |
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Well, they hire inner city degenerate mouth breathers who are low/no skill mall cops. The security guards at my work at all cut from the same cloth. They steal tools and shit ALL the time. I had a full set of proto spline drive ratchet wrenches disappear off my desk between 5pm on friday, and 7am on Saturday. The only people who had access to the building from those hours, were security. You do the math. View Quote |
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They took one of my two TSA approved combo locks I had on a 12 bottle wine carrier (luggage) when I was flying home from Sonoma.
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Well, they hire inner city degenerate mouth breathers who are low/no skill mall cops. The security guards at my work at all cut from the same cloth. They steal tools and shit ALL the time. I had a full set of proto spline drive ratchet wrenches disappear off my desk between 5pm on friday, and 7am on Saturday. The only people who had access to the building from those hours, were security. You do the math. View Quote |
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Yep I had a petzal duo headlamp stolen out of a bag on a flight from Aspen CO to Mesa AZ.
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They made me throw away an E German AK buttstock because “we don’t know what other parts are already on the plane”, then they caught my backpack on fire. I don’t trust them.
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Many years ago, my wife was traveling for business and forgot she had an Emerson karambit in her purse. The took it, got her info, and mailed it back home. If I recall correctly, it took about a week to receive it. This was at least ten years ago.
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Swipped my ex wifes 3 month supply of birth control. I fucking hate tsa.
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They let me carry a grenade launcher through in my checked badge.
When the TSA agent asked me what it was I truthfully answered: "It's a discharger cup." Since he had no idea that "discharger cup" was the official UK nomenclature for a WW1 Enfield rifle grenade launcher, I was good to go. Edit to add: I didn't have an Enfield rifle, grenade launching blanks or any grenades, so it was pretty harmless. |
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Had our niece fly into ATL to visit years back, unaccompanied minor, MIL bought the ticket and set up the flight.
We found out last minute and hauled ass over to pick her up, 2 1/2 hr drive, and we were running late. Was going through security and let wife go through first, noted no one was being asked to remove shoes. I was wearing shorts and Nikes. Put all my stuff in a tray, phone, wallet, $300 Oakley Juliets.... Had TSA guy stop me and tell me I had to take my sneakers off. Complied, went back through detector, didn't go off, but he had me backtrack and go through again, seemed odd. Got through, grabbed shoes, wife was halfway down the concourse, God bless her. Looked for my other stuff, nothing, figured she grabbed it. I'm running after her barefoot carrying my shoes, ask her for my stuff. She hands me wallet, phone, keys..... "Where are my sunglasses"? "What sunglasses, this is all there was....." Went back, TSA's best and brightest claimed no knowledge of missing item. I decided our niece was more important than a pair of sunglasses and the shitshow that would have devolved into. |
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