Dunno which is more annoying: that LAX security found the wine opener (complete with corkscrew and tiny foil knife) that was lurking in my briefcase unbeknownst to me — or that DEN security didn’t find it.
Of course, spotting anything through the mare’s next of cables in my briefcase is a huge trick, which is usually why they run it back and forth a few times under the screen.
But it does indicate a security weakness. And it does indicate that … well, I’m out a rather nice wine opener (and I’m trying to remember when the heck that got into my briefcase).
And so wine bottles on my flight home can rest easily knowing this particular Shifty Character won’t be terrorizing them any time soon …
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So what happened? Are you given a chance to mail it home to yourself, or was it simply confiscated?
SOP is they can give it to you to take back outside (where, presumably, you can check it or ship it), or they keep it.
It wasn’t *that* valuable of a corkscrew.
O.K., I’m trying to follow the logic here…they prevent you from shipping a corkscrew (after allowing you to bring it with you in the first place), but the airline (in your previus post allows a major breach of security by allowing people into the cockpit? Sure, the plane was on the ground, but what about the danger (potential) of people scoping out the layout, security, if the crew if carrying weapons and the like.
Makes no sense to me.
Presumably since (a) we’d all been screened, and (b) we weren’t actually in the air, the security risk was fairly minimal. Also, presumably, if we’d started asking questions about hidden weapons, security measures, stuff like that, we might have been looked at askance.
After all, cabin layouts aren’t an actual security measure (doors to the cockpit are often left open during loading, and the layouts are available in the open market or to folks taking, ahem, flight training).
On the other hand, plenty of things I don’t think are a substantive security risk are felonies, so what do I know?