Hand tool shortage in Mexico

[BoundForElsewhere]

So I literally just went through security at the Coz airport and the confiscated my adjustable wrench, scuba multi-tool, and my screwdriver.

Just a heads up to anyone traveling soon. I guess they afraid you'll take the plane apart during your flight.

It was a really sweet wide jaw stainless steel wrench, too.

 

[rongoodman]

Why not just put your tools in your checked luggage?

 

[ggunn]

So I literally just went through security at the Coz airport and the confiscated my adjustable wrench, scuba multi-tool, and my screwdriver.

Just a heads up to anyone traveling soon. I guess they afraid you'll take the plane apart during your flight.

It was a really sweet wide jaw stainless steel wrench, too.

You can't have tools in the passenger cabin anywhere you fly. That has been the rule for 20+ years.

 

[MMM]

American officials took my allen keys one time when I flew through on way back to Canada. I was travelling light with only my camera and dive computer as I had left my suitcase behind. I was trying to travel light to get back quickly before my dad passed away. You can't take that stuff in carryon. Somehow it escaped detection when I had boarded the plane in Cancun.

 

[Snoweman]

Tools | Transportation Security Administration

Tools 7 inches or shorter (measured from end to end when assembled) may be allowed in carry-on baggage. Power tools and all tools longer than 7 inches (measured from end to end when assembled) are prohibited in carry-on baggage; these items must be packed in your checked bags. For tools...

www.tsa.gov

 

[tridacna]

Tools | Transportation Security Administration

Tools 7 inches or shorter (measured from end to end when assembled) may be allowed in carry-on baggage. Power tools and all tools longer than 7 inches (measured from end to end when assembled) are prohibited in carry-on baggage; these items must be packed in your checked bags. For tools...

www.tsa.gov

Are those rules equally applicable to Mexican authorities?

 

[Snoweman]

Are those rules equally applicable to Mexican authorities?

I believe this is a minimum guide for anyone flying to/from the USA. One visit Costa Rica, I brought a wine key. I had broken off the little knife. While it flagged security, they let me carry it on board. On the way back, the CR security confiscated it, saying the cork screw was a weapon. One couple was pissed as they bought a nice one in CR and it was taken from them.

 

[ReefHound]

I had a multi-tool confiscated in Florida in 2008. No tools. You may have gotten away with it a few times but just put anything that could be remotely seen as a tool in your checked bags.

 

[broncobowsher]

Are those rules equally applicable to Mexican authorities?

Mexican authorities have rules?

 

[mediumone]

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Yes, Snoweman, but you didn't paste the sentence following the caution sign at the bottom of your linked page:

The final decision rests with the TSA officer on whether an item is allowed through the checkpoint.

And most of us, I think, have met some really nice TSA folks, and some total a** h***s