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travel warning: TSA took my allen wrenches
About two weeks ago I left for Hawaii from the
Denver airport. I was carrying a small photo backpack with my usual gear, including 2 small allen wrenches for the screws on my Wimberly mounting plates. These are small, ~1 mm and ~2 mm, allen wrenches. I've carried these for a couple of years without a problem. I was flagged for carrying a potential weapon, my bag went through secondary screening, including taking it all apart to find the wrenches. In discussing the issue with TSA, they said there is a "New" rule that says no tools of any kind are allowed as carry-on. A TSA guy said you could poke someone with these wrenches. I pointed out how much smaller and less effective small allen wrenches were than keys or nail clippers (which are allowed). His answer was that the higher ups know more than we do, and the allen wrenches were banned. So don't take any tools on board any more. Roger |
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Denver TSA has always been pretty lame I have a small razor knife that is
the size of a key it has gone thru the screenings dozens of time in my carryon and in the little tray for keys. However when I tried to use an expired passport for an ID they said no. http://custom-studios.com/keytags.htm. I checked the TSA site and could not find anything as far as ID is concerned Wayne "Roger N. Clark (change username to rnclark)" wrote in message ... About two weeks ago I left for Hawaii from the Denver airport. I was carrying a small photo backpack with my usual gear, including 2 small allen wrenches for the screws on my Wimberly mounting plates. These are small, ~1 mm and ~2 mm, allen wrenches. I've carried these for a couple of years without a problem. I was flagged for carrying a potential weapon, my bag went through secondary screening, including taking it all apart to find the wrenches. In discussing the issue with TSA, they said there is a "New" rule that says no tools of any kind are allowed as carry-on. A TSA guy said you could poke someone with these wrenches. I pointed out how much smaller and less effective small allen wrenches were than keys or nail clippers (which are allowed). His answer was that the higher ups know more than we do, and the allen wrenches were banned. So don't take any tools on board any more. Roger |
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Denver TSA has always been pretty lame I have a small razor knife that is
the size of a key it has gone thru the screenings dozens of time in my carryon and in the little tray for keys. However when I tried to use an expired passport for an ID they said no. http://custom-studios.com/keytags.htm. I checked the TSA site and could not find anything as far as ID is concerned Wayne "Roger N. Clark (change username to rnclark)" wrote in message ... About two weeks ago I left for Hawaii from the Denver airport. I was carrying a small photo backpack with my usual gear, including 2 small allen wrenches for the screws on my Wimberly mounting plates. These are small, ~1 mm and ~2 mm, allen wrenches. I've carried these for a couple of years without a problem. I was flagged for carrying a potential weapon, my bag went through secondary screening, including taking it all apart to find the wrenches. In discussing the issue with TSA, they said there is a "New" rule that says no tools of any kind are allowed as carry-on. A TSA guy said you could poke someone with these wrenches. I pointed out how much smaller and less effective small allen wrenches were than keys or nail clippers (which are allowed). His answer was that the higher ups know more than we do, and the allen wrenches were banned. So don't take any tools on board any more. Roger |
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"Roger N. Clark (change username to rnclark)" wrote in message ... About two weeks ago I left for Hawaii from the Denver airport. I was carrying a small photo backpack with my usual gear, including 2 small allen wrenches for the screws on my Wimberly mounting plates. These are small, ~1 mm and ~2 mm, allen wrenches. I've carried these for a couple of years without a problem. I was flagged for carrying a potential weapon, my bag went through secondary screening, including taking it all apart to find the wrenches. In discussing the issue with TSA, they said there is a "New" rule that says no tools of any kind are allowed as carry-on. A TSA guy said you could poke someone with these wrenches. I pointed out how much smaller and less effective small allen wrenches were than keys or nail clippers (which are allowed). His answer was that the higher ups know more than we do, and the allen wrenches were banned. So don't take any tools on board any more. That is right, the prohibited items list (conveniently available in .pdf format on the TSA web site) includes tools, but specifically says nail clippers and safety razors are allowed. Furthermore, if you attempt to bring Allen wrenches to a checkpoint again, you can be fined $250 - $1500, because now you are supposed to know better; you have been flagged. Do it again and they will assume it is intentional. Perhaps Homeland Security believes that the best way to protect US citizens is to lock them up on any pretext possible in order to keep them out of harm's way. I am firmly convinced that TSA is the best possible argument for learning to fly. You can carry anything you want on your own airplane. |
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"Roger N. Clark (change username to rnclark)" wrote in message ... About two weeks ago I left for Hawaii from the Denver airport. I was carrying a small photo backpack with my usual gear, including 2 small allen wrenches for the screws on my Wimberly mounting plates. These are small, ~1 mm and ~2 mm, allen wrenches. I've carried these for a couple of years without a problem. I was flagged for carrying a potential weapon, my bag went through secondary screening, including taking it all apart to find the wrenches. In discussing the issue with TSA, they said there is a "New" rule that says no tools of any kind are allowed as carry-on. A TSA guy said you could poke someone with these wrenches. I pointed out how much smaller and less effective small allen wrenches were than keys or nail clippers (which are allowed). His answer was that the higher ups know more than we do, and the allen wrenches were banned. So don't take any tools on board any more. That is right, the prohibited items list (conveniently available in .pdf format on the TSA web site) includes tools, but specifically says nail clippers and safety razors are allowed. Furthermore, if you attempt to bring Allen wrenches to a checkpoint again, you can be fined $250 - $1500, because now you are supposed to know better; you have been flagged. Do it again and they will assume it is intentional. Perhaps Homeland Security believes that the best way to protect US citizens is to lock them up on any pretext possible in order to keep them out of harm's way. I am firmly convinced that TSA is the best possible argument for learning to fly. You can carry anything you want on your own airplane. |
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"Roger N. Clark (change username to rnclark)" wrote in message ... About two weeks ago I left for Hawaii from the Denver airport. I was carrying a small photo backpack with my usual gear, including 2 small allen wrenches for the screws on my Wimberly mounting plates. These are small, ~1 mm and ~2 mm, allen wrenches. I've carried these for a couple of years without a problem. I was flagged for carrying a potential weapon, my bag went through secondary screening, including taking it all apart to find the wrenches. In discussing the issue with TSA, they said there is a "New" rule that says no tools of any kind are allowed as carry-on. A TSA guy said you could poke someone with these wrenches. I pointed out how much smaller and less effective small allen wrenches were than keys or nail clippers (which are allowed). His answer was that the higher ups know more than we do, and the allen wrenches were banned. So don't take any tools on board any more. That is right, the prohibited items list (conveniently available in .pdf format on the TSA web site) includes tools, but specifically says nail clippers and safety razors are allowed. Furthermore, if you attempt to bring Allen wrenches to a checkpoint again, you can be fined $250 - $1500, because now you are supposed to know better; you have been flagged. Do it again and they will assume it is intentional. Perhaps Homeland Security believes that the best way to protect US citizens is to lock them up on any pretext possible in order to keep them out of harm's way. I am firmly convinced that TSA is the best possible argument for learning to fly. You can carry anything you want on your own airplane. |
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I drive, saves an awful lot of trouble and I get to carry anything I
want... Dave On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 09:30:23 -0800, "C J Campbell" wrote: That is right, the prohibited items list (conveniently available in .pdf format on the TSA web site) includes tools, but specifically says nail clippers and safety razors are allowed. Furthermore, if you attempt to bring Allen wrenches to a checkpoint again, you can be fined $250 - $1500, because now you are supposed to know better; you have been flagged. Do it again and they will assume it is intentional. Perhaps Homeland Security believes that the best way to protect US citizens is to lock them up on any pretext possible in order to keep them out of harm's way. I am firmly convinced that TSA is the best possible argument for learning to fly. You can carry anything you want on your own airplane. |
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I drive, saves an awful lot of trouble and I get to carry anything I
want... Dave On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 09:30:23 -0800, "C J Campbell" wrote: That is right, the prohibited items list (conveniently available in .pdf format on the TSA web site) includes tools, but specifically says nail clippers and safety razors are allowed. Furthermore, if you attempt to bring Allen wrenches to a checkpoint again, you can be fined $250 - $1500, because now you are supposed to know better; you have been flagged. Do it again and they will assume it is intentional. Perhaps Homeland Security believes that the best way to protect US citizens is to lock them up on any pretext possible in order to keep them out of harm's way. I am firmly convinced that TSA is the best possible argument for learning to fly. You can carry anything you want on your own airplane. |
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