major side rail...TSA is out for us!

[Hairyboar]

Okay, so this is really random, but worth sharing. While visiting family in ultra rural GA, yes the "shine" is good there, I picked up a 1930's cast iron bottle capper. Its way cool, heavy, impractical, and oh so awesome.
Flash forward to the TSA line. Well according to TSA at the Atlanta airport there have been an influx of 6', red bearded white guys endangering the masses, or at least one. Apparently they consider a cast iron capper a "tool of more than 7 inches" and not allowed. I will say the guy checking me felt really bad, he knew I was legit, but miss so and so manager said no. So back hiked to the check in where I went to try and stuff it back into my checked luggage.
Just prior to that, I did point out the irony of the similarities to the "Club Like Item" I was carrying and a bottle of Jim Beam Black label that is in the duty free shop 40 feet away. But you cant reason with an orginization that then replies, "We ain't responsible for wha happ'n beyond the check in line." and "I'm sorry we can't list all the i'ems you can't take on da flight." (yes that is the proper spelling of the TSA's official position.) Pardon me, saying "Don't bring anything larger than a pencil that weights more than an apple", I know that does seem veague, but really really important.
Okay Mile High rant over, now i just need to prepare my mind for actually using my capper tomorrow when I bottle my 4 week aged Smoked Porter, if my bag gets there.....

Thx all,

T
"Newest member to the no fly list."

 

[chumprock]

So, you tried to bring an old cast-iron bottle capper as a carry-on?

 

[XXguy]

TSA Security = theatre.

Those TSA guys piss me off every time I fly. Personally, I think they should be handing out 8" knives to all passengers over the age of 18 as they board... rather than trying to confiscate toenail clippers.

/rant

 

[Hairyboar]

My checked bag was 2lbs over, so that was the easist thing to grap and put in my carry on, I'm not an idiot i did check with the ticket counter and ask if it would be okay to bring on. The responce was, "Sure, its not sharp or that big." Mind you, i just traveled with my guitar a few months prior and that was okay. So I took them at their word. So needless to say, the TSA does not have a set policy, just a bunch of people making arbituary decisions about a loose set of rules.

T
Satilites and the NSA are watching me know, carefull.

 

[woodenbuick]

I ran into the same thing trying to carry on a antique pewter tea set. Could be used as a weapon by this fat white boy.

 

[buffalobrewer]

TSA agent here was the link to getting the drug money smuggled.....

maybe if you had some weed with it you would have been ok??

http://www.buffalonews.com/city/police-courts/police-blotter/article355093.ece