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4:46 PM - Nightlife: airport security is laughable
4:46 PM - Nightlife: so I was on a holiday in alaska where I went on a cruise with my family
4:46 PM - Nightlife: to get there from NC I took a plane to texas then a plane to vancouver where I got on the ship
4:46 PM - Nightlife: vancouver is awesome by the way
4:46 PM - Nightlife: anyway
4:47 PM - Nightlife: the ship lands in alaska
4:47 PM - Nightlife: and i take a plane from anchorage to vancouver
4:47 PM - Nightlife: going through security to get on the plane to texas from vancouver
4:47 PM - Nightlife: they x-ray my backpack as per usual
4:47 PM - Nightlife: and they search it and take out this tiny sheet metal wrench I've had in there since middle school
4:48 PM - Nightlife: "you can't take tools on planes we'll have to confiscate this"
4:48 PM - Kestrel: lmao
4:48 PM - Nightlife: keep in mind that that wrench made it through security checkpoints many many times before getting there
4:48 PM - Kestrel: gonna take the plane apart in midair
4:48 PM - Kestrel: you fuckin terrorist
4:48 PM - Nightlife: not to mention all the way to vancouver from NC
4:48 PM - Nightlife: i have my 5.25" KA-BAR in my backpack and I didn't realize it
4:49 PM - Kestrel: don't tell me
4:49 PM - Kestrel: they missed it
4:49 PM - Nightlife: and that managed to get through security at the RDU airport in NC, the Dallas/Ft. Worth airport in Texas, AND that EXACT SAME AIRPORT in Vancouver
4:49 PM - Kestrel: LOL
4:49 PM - Nightlife: other items I've slipped through airport security that they should have gotten post-9/11 have been:
4:49 PM - Nightlife: roman candles
4:49 PM - Nightlife: a screwdriver
4:50 PM - Nightlife: a couple forks
4:50 PM - Nightlife: yeah, they banned forks on airplanes over here
4:50 PM - Nightlife: heaven forbid I try to eat my food like a civilized human being
4:50 PM - Nightlife: a bottle rocket
4:50 PM - Nightlife: a bottle of lighter fluid
4:50 PM - Nightlife: various folding knives
4:50 PM - Nightlife: a butterfly knife
4:51 PM - Nightlife: and a 14" machete
4:51 PM - Nightlife: HOW DO YOU MISS A MACHETE THAT'S ALMOST AS LONG AS MY ARM
4:51 PM - Nightlife: er
4:51 PM - Nightlife: as long as my forearm
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4:49 PM - kolobus: people are still paranoid all around the world
4:49 PM - kolobus: airport security is going to be tight for years and years
4:49 PM - kolobus: maybe even forever
4:50 PM - Kestrel: dad has a tan and had black hair and a bushy moustache
4:50 PM - Kestrel: he ALWAYS got pulled aside
4:50 PM - Kestrel: literally ALWAYS
4:50 PM - kolobus: its more along the lines of him perhaps using a wrench as a weapon or something
4:50 PM - Kestrel: meanwhile good blonde-haired blue-eyed ross and his green-eyed mum both got through unmolested
4:51 PM - Kestrel: granted he looked like some distant relo of saddam but seriously
4:51 PM - Kestrel: and as soon as they found out he wasn't a muslim they let him go
4:51 PM - Kestrel: lmao
4:51 PM - Kestrel: us airport security: not racist. totally.
