For me, it’s all the suck brought on by a pathological fear (trauma) of authority figures abusing their power. In this case: TSA, and their ability to completely screw with your travel plans. To be clear, this is not rational and 100% nothing bad happens.
More like “Did I really lock my front door?”
*Don’t say ‘bomb’. Don’t accidentally say ‘bomb’. Don’t say ‘bomb’.
“Hey, I didn’t bring a bomb! DOH!”
Did this on a flight to Venice. Except it was a large firecracker, but at a glance it looked like a half stick of dynamite. I still have no idea how I got away with it.
Me on my steamdeck at an airport: “okay, this game doesn’t talk about bombs or guns, right?”
I’m sure counter strike would be a decent option
Don’t read this comic at the airport.
Mine is a knife, reach in to entry pockets at TSA baggage xray, a moment where I’m afraid I’ll pull out a giant knife
I carry a pocket knife everywhere, so this one is a legit concern for me. It is as natural as putting on my clothes for me to put my knife in my pocket, so I’m always concerned that I accidentally put my knife in my pocket, despite being very intentional about leaving it behind. I paid $280 for the thing, so it would be a damned shame to lose it to stupid-ass TSA.
Pack some prepaid package envelopes with your home as the destination. TSA got a problem with your nail clipper? Leave your favorite knife in your pocket by accident? Put it in the envelope and drop it in any USPS box.
I always get concerned that somehow I have packed hard drugs (I don’t do hard drugs.)
For my next trick, I shall pull a condom full of coke out of your ass. I assure you we did not plant it ahead of time.
There is no need to pack a bomb for a flight. Just buy the parts and ingredients you need to build one in the duty-free shop after the TSA security theater.
Do they sell electrical switches, or lighters back there, or am I supposed to rub two sticks together to ignite it?
You do not need any of this. You should know some chemistry and physics, but you can get everything you need to make a bang.
Are you serious that there are chemical combinations for sell behind the security checkpoint that’ll make a large explosion?
They obviously do not.
But think how safe you would be if you did pack a bomb.
The odds of there being one bomb on a plane are tiny enough, but the odds of there being two bombs on a plane are vanishingly small…
The only way to stop a bad guy with a bomb…
You really need to pack one bomb for each family member really. Kid’s bombs just help lower the odds to virtually zero.
I’m not necessarily worried about actually packing one, but I do feel nervous about saying the word out loud accidentally.
I am sure Tourette’s syndrome sufferers are sweating bullets. Or was it bombs?
If you’re traveling somewhere with extremely restrictive drug laws (e.g. Singapore), you can be sentenced to prison for drug particles on your shoes. i.e. you can accidentally have forbidden substances on you.
Do they test everyone’s shoes or do you just have to be extremely unlucky?
I’d assume they’re just doing the rounds with drug sniffer dogs. Those dogs have crazy sensitivity.
I got tired of worrying about whether or not I packed a bomb and would be caught so I decided to just do so and get it over with.
In reality I just grabbed a 2 pound brick of scrapple wrapped it in wires that I soldered to a watch and stuck it in the middle of my backpack.
Got to enjoy my scrapple on the other side and felt far more confident about my future in scrapple smuggling.
I have the reverse thing, after the check I’m like “I got away with it once again!”, while packing absolutely nothing wrong.
Or a knife
I knew someone that unintentionally carried a switchblade in their carry-on bag to NYC, discovered that it was in their bag when they were unpacking at the hotel, and then intentionally carried it back home to Chicago in their same carry-on. Both times it passed through an x-ray machine without comment.
This shit is all security theater. Look up how often Red Teams get guns, ammunition, and simulated explosive devices past TSA; you’ll be unpleasantly surprised.
Or weed
Or nail trimmers or a tennis ball
You’re not allowed to bring nail trimmers? I did…
So according to the TSA website you are allowed to bring nail clippers in your carry-on and check-in but they always have some bullshit text that say it is up to the agent.
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