my wife flew to heathrow and back with a screwdriver in her handbag!

sweetie · 28-11-2008 1:46pm #1

Couple of weeks ago I asked my wife to get a size 10 torx screw head in town and I gave her a similar size screwdriver without the indentation to bring with her to get the correct size. So last night, she asks me to get her mobile out of her bag and when I went to get it I see the screwdriver at the bottom and then it dawns on us she had been on a business trip to the uk on wednesday with the same bag and it's contents (typically full to the brim of stuff) :eek:. So is airport security really that crap nowadays?

Professey Chin · 28-11-2008 1:47pm

Simply. Yes

28-11-2008 1:49pm

Why did she need a screwdriver? Are you not good enough!? :pac:

28-11-2008 1:50pm

What's wrong with bringing a vodka & O.J. on a plane?????

Cuddlesworth · 28-11-2008 1:50pm

Better that then a Dildo.

4zn76tysfajdxp · 28-11-2008 1:51pm

sweetie wrote: »

Couple of weeks ago I asked my wife...

You're a man and your username is "sweetie?"

Professey Chin · 28-11-2008 1:51pm

Actually, are you allowed bring a crucifix???
A girl I know was watching the exorcist the other night and asked me.

Miguel_Sanchez · 28-11-2008 1:53pm

I went through customs in Heathrow once with a knife in my hand luggage. This was about a week or two before September 11th so security wasn't as stringent as it supposedly is now but I was pretty surprised when I opened my bag on the way to the plane and found it there.

jaykay74 · 28-11-2008 1:56pm

Deleted User wrote: »

What's wrong with bringing a vodka & O.J. on a plane?????

no liquids allowed and O.J. is in a detention centre I think so shouldn't be allowed travel... Hes not a happy drunk anyway i hear so best not to mix the 2.

BaZmO* · 28-11-2008 2:00pm

I went through Heathrow before (pre 911) with a screwdriver in my hand luggage too. No big deal really when you consider that they gave you steel knives and forks with your meal.

A friend of friend went to the States (post 911) wearing his brothers jacket. He didn't realise until he got there that his brother had been using the jacket while out shooting rabbits and had left some unused shotgun cartridges in the pocket.

ScumLord · 28-11-2008 2:08pm

I flew back from Vienna whit a scissors in my carry on. I didn't know it was there until security pulled it out of the back after scanning. They just shrugged and put it back in my bag. EU customs don't really care.

BaconZombie · 28-11-2008 2:09pm

I've done this a number of time by mistake, twice with a small phase-tester and once with a large 10mm wide flathead {something like this one}.

griffdaddy · 28-11-2008 2:11pm

I hopped on a plane to Holland without anyone checking my passport. Most of the big talk about security is just that. The amount of people going through everyday and the nature of air travel, i.e. working to strict time limits, means that they can't even come close to being as secure as they say they are or would have you believe

Mr.Applepie · 28-11-2008 2:11pm

I went through security with a knife (about a 3inch blade) in my coat pocket. I only noticed I had it when I was in the hotel room after the flight... but in all fairness they did check my belt for bombs!

MOH · 28-11-2008 2:24pm

Ultimate Chin wrote: »

Actually, are you allowed bring a crucifix???
A girl I know was watching the exorcist the other night and asked me.

Not on Vampire Airlines

Terry · 28-11-2008 2:27pm

Is she white?

Professey Chin · 28-11-2008 2:27pm

MOH wrote: »

Not on Vampire Airlines

Guess i'd better cancel that Transylvania trip

Guru Maith Agut · 28-11-2008 2:29pm

Just goes to show what a waste of time wimmins handbags are, they never have a clue what they have in there. Shame she didn't get cavity searched. :eek:

Notch000 · 28-11-2008 2:38pm

i got pulled aside for extra screening in San fran last summer and later on the plane i found a scissors in my laptop bag, it was mine of course.
Stupid 911 no knife finding yanks at their best

ejmaztec · 28-11-2008 2:38pm

A Customs guy at Cork Airport took a liking to my handy little €2.90 Woodies screw-driver that I'd forgotten to put into one of the suitcases, and asked me if I wanted to post it back to my house. I could tell from his slobbering that he liked the look of it, so I told him to "bin" it.

I often think of that little screw-driver and hope that it went to a good home.

CreepingDeath · 28-11-2008 3:09pm

sweetie wrote: »

my wife flew to heathrow and back with a screwrdriver in her handbag!

So is airport security really that crap nowadays?

The passengers would be able to stop her before she disassembled the engine in-flight though.

Fratton Fred · 28-11-2008 3:46pm

On a flight to Tobago, my wife took out a carton of SMA ready to feed for our daughter, the stewardess very kindly offered to open it for us, to which my wife replied, its ok thanks I have a pair of scissors here and took a big pair of scissors out of the changing bag.

The stewardess nearly passed out with shock. She quickly told my wife to put them away or she would have to inform the pilot

28-11-2008 3:50pm

Fratton Fred wrote: »

On a flight to Tobago, my wife took out a carton of SMA ready to feed for our daughter, the stewardess very kindly offered to open it for us, to which my wife replied, its ok thanks I have a pair of scissors here and took a big pair of scissors out of the changing bag.

The stewardess nearly passed out with shock. She quickly told my wife to put them away or she would have to inform the pilot

To which I would've replied

"The pilot likes SMA? Isn't that a bit odd"

Töpher · 28-11-2008 3:51pm

There's no way she'd have gotten through airport security with that! 'Business trip'? Sounds like you're gonna have to check her phone!

Cookie_Monster · 28-11-2008 3:51pm

Flown Dublin-> Heathrow-> Zurich
and
Zurich-> Heathrow

With a penknife in my bag, only got it taken off me when going for the Dublin flight back from Heathrow.

2003 I think it was.

sweetie · 28-11-2008 9:17pm

Killian Rough Gong wrote: »

You're a man and your username is "sweetie?"

one can't pick one's nickname. anyhoo it comes from an irish film

4zn76tysfajdxp · 28-11-2008 9:24pm

sweetie wrote: »

one can't pick one's nickname.

I didn't say anything about your nickname, sweetie.

Ah, who am I to talk? Most here people think I'm a girl as well...

Tom65 · 28-11-2008 10:11pm

I flew from Dublin to Sardinia with a knife in my bag. Granted, the airport in Sardinia was tiny. Still, I would've expected more from the Dublin side.

Vokes · 28-11-2008 10:48pm

I got through LHR with my very large kitchen scissors in my backpack.

Course didn't know it was there until my return flight from Dublin. One of the security ladies spotted it on the x-ray - she kept searching my bag (it has lots of nooks and crannys) - checking the x-ray again many times - and then eventually found it and brandished it for all to see as if she had won the World Cup

Hal1 · 28-11-2008 10:58pm

She would have got screwed by customs if they found that.

my wife flew to heathrow and back with a screwdriver in her handbag!

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