Life Hacker – by Stephanie Lee
We all know to avoid packing the obvious things that could make TSA physically search your bag, but sometimes it might still be singled out despite your best efforts. Here’s what the TSA looks for and how to pack your bags accordingly to reduce the likelihood that they search your bag.
Your bag has to go through a detailed x-ray scan, so as the article on New Creations suggests, think about how your everyday items could appear to a person looking for threats on an x-ray machine. The following list are the items that look like part of an explosive device and could trigger a TSA search:
- Personal electronics
- Hair driers
- Curling Irons
- Electric Razors
- iPods / Music players
- Connecting cables and wires
- Battery chargers
- Shoes (especially shoe soles)
- Books
- Toiletries
- Shampoo
- Soap
- Hair care products
- Paper reports
- Lotions
- Perfumes
- Food stuffs (peanut butter, tortillas, burritos, Reese’s cups, etc.)
This isn’t a complete list, but basically you should be thinking about “anything that has a density of a liquid, gel, paper or soft plastic.” Knowing this, you can be more strategic about how you pack your checked bags:
The key is to pack your suitcase in such a way that we keep anything that might appear to be a triggering device physically separated from anything that might be mistaken for explosive material. That means we need to keep some distance in our luggage between our consumer electronics and electrical devices and any of those things which has a similar density to potential explosives.
Fortunately we can use our clothes to pack in between them and provide that physical separation. In the TSA screening machines clothes are obviously not either component so you can use your clothes to provide the physical separation you want to expedite the screening process.
The author has noted that following this has dramatically reduced the likelihood of TSA searching his bags.
http://lifehacker.com/the-harmless-items-that-could-trigger-a-tsa-search-of-c-1792317809
Hell with this, I aint going to make a gestapo’s job easier .. a checked bag is out of my hands once checked in anyways .. if they want to waste countless hours fiddling through my shit to find absolutely nothing .. than go for it dopes
so useless and they dont even know it.. so, ask yerself how many terrorist attacks has TSA actually thwarted …-0 goose egg
I stopped flying when the TSA was created, Want to get rid of them? STOP FLYING. Hit the companies where they make the $$.
I used to fly inside across, and outside, our nation. I am just one, but many hotels, restaurants, etc also LOST my $$. When the only people uses the airlines is corporate and political azzes they will lose a lot of revenue. But most people are too dumbed down to do this because it costs them time and planning.
So what are the selfsame people going to do when they require you to be microchipped to be able to go state to state, and out of/into our nation? Comply? This is already in the works, look at the microchipping bill already passed, and the ones they have already created by not passed.
“Nevada — A new bill — proposed by a senator who sees the potential for tracking humans to come to fruition — would make mandatory microchipping of humans a Class C felony.
“Nevada State Senator Becky Harris believes Senate Bill 109 could be a pre-emptive measure against the worldwide push to implant humans with microchips — and the inspiration for the bill came from one of her constituents.” http://www.activistpost.com/2017/02/senator-pushes-bill-ban-mandatory-human-microchips-happen.html
Remember that when obamacare was created, microchipping was written into the bill (Yes, since I did actually read it I know that is true).
Where is YOUR line drawn? I chose mine long ago.
I avoid flying whenever possible now because of the privacy violations. The only exceptions are when I occasionally have to fly for work. Even then, I make every effort to get by with nothing more than a carry-on bag.
Should the privacy violations become any more intrusive than they already are, I’ll refuse to fly even for work. They can fire me in that case.
Airline security is just stupid. There’s no need for a terrorist (US-sponsored or not) to get a bomb on a plane to cause a massive death toll. All he has to do is blow himself up while he’s standing in the midst of the long, winding line to go through security.
So, then what? Start making people stand in ANOTHER line to be screened before they can stand in the “real” security line? And that wouldn’t even solve the problem, obviously.
Geez…ANYTHING, apparently, is preferable to doing the sensible thing by ending US support for Israeli aggression and leaving the Muslim world alone.