So How Large Can You Carry-On Knife Be?

[DandyDon]

I took my knife off of my BC for Cozumel and stuck it inside a small canvas bag with camera batteries and chargers, forgot all about it when I thru that bag in my roll-on. It went thru airport X-ray inspection in Cancun and again in Houston with no problem, but I am amazed. Guess the batteries disguised it, and we pay an extra $10 per trip for TSA security.
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The blade is blunt but sharp and just over 3 inches long...



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[Doc]

So, they're letting you near sharp objects again?

Good for you

 

[tridacna]

I took my knife off of my BC for Cozumel and stuck it inside a small canvas bag with camera batteries and chargers, forgot all about it when I thru that bag in my roll-on. It went thru airport X-ray inspection in Cancun and again in Houston with no problem, but I am amazed. Guess the batteries disguised it, and we pay an extra $10 per trip for TSA security.
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The blade is blunt but sharp and just over 3 inches long...

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Ha! I went on a business trip from Newark to Seattle about a month ago. I grabbed a different carry-on bag for my laptop before I left. I get to my hotel room in Seattle, open the bag and out drops my machete (I mean titanium dive knife that I never use). Thing is 8 inches long and weighs mucho. I sent it back via UPS to my house.

Vive la TSA!

 

[DandyDon]

Well, we're safe in the knowledge that they won't let our plastic bottles of water get thru...!

 

[F106A]

You people obviously are missing the new functions of TSA:
1. Employ people
2. Stimulate the economy
3. Instill a sense of security in the traveler (actually an original goal)
4. Generate revenue (the $10 TSA fee, the $ they get when selling confiscated items on eBay, and the hefty fine if you're caught with contraband)

 

[Damselfish]

I did the same once too, accidentally put a dive knife - blunt tip but not that small - in carryon (actually, in my husbands :blush Not only did security in Cayman catch it, they still let him carry it on. Pre TSA, but still.

 

[DandyDon]

I did the same once too, accidentally put a dive knife - blunt tip but not that small - in carryon (actually, in my husbands :blush Not only did security in Cayman catch it, they still let him carry it on. Pre TSA, but still.

Oh hell, pre-TSA I could wear a folding, lock blade, pointed hunting knife that opened up to 8" onto a plane - and did many times.

 

[joe27march]

And I get jammed up for a pair of nail clippers?

 

[Teamcasa]

I took my knife off of my BC for Cozumel and stuck it inside a small canvas bag with camera batteries and chargers, forgot all about it when I thru that bag in my roll-on. It went thru airport X-ray inspection in Cancun and again in Houston with no problem,

Are you bragging or complaining?

 

[themagni]

It wasn't valuable enough looking to steal.

Er, confiscate for national security reasons.