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Sundray@lemmus.org to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago

Intrusive thoughts at the airport [Azul Crescent's silly scribbles]

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Intrusive thoughts at the airport [Azul Crescent's silly scribbles]

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Sundray@lemmus.org to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago
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Azul Crescent’s silly scribbles

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  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    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.

    • Anticorp@lemmy.world
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      Do they sell electrical switches, or lighters back there, or am I supposed to rub two sticks together to ignite it?

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        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.

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          Are you serious that there are chemical combinations for sell behind the security checkpoint that’ll make a large explosion?

  • hOrni@lemmy.world
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    I don’t care about bombs. I’m just thinking about not seeing my friends for 3 months, and that scares me more.

    • loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works
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      9 months ago

      The friendpilled visitmaxer

  • Ignotum@lemmy.world
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    “did you pack this bag yourself?”
    “Yes?”
    “Then is there a tactical nuclear warhead in the left pocket?”
    “Ah shucks”

    • eleitl@lemm.ee
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      It’s 26 to 32 kg so it’s its own piece of luggage https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/W54#/media/File%3ASADM_carry_bag.jpg

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    Everytime

    Not a word!

  • dwindling7373@feddit.it
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    I have the reverse thing, after the check I’m like “I got away with it once again!”, while packing absolutely nothing wrong.

  • JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.world
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    That this can and does ever happen to anybody is how you know the TSA is an abject failure of an organization.

  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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    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.

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      Do they test everyone’s shoes or do you just have to be extremely unlucky?

      • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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        I’d assume they’re just doing the rounds with drug sniffer dogs. Those dogs have crazy sensitivity.

        • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
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          Drug dogs have an average success rate of about 44%.

          If they’re sniffing around a Latino that rate drops to 27%.

          https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/01/07/132738250/report-drug-sniffing-dogs-are-wrong-more-often-than-right

          They can sort of smell drugs, sometimes, but more often than not they are simply a tool that manufactures probable cause.

  • irelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.ee
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    Me when someone is looking through my phone

    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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      sure hope they don’t see all the weird sex I’ve been having with their daughters

  • germtm.@lemmy.world
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    you’re fine as long as you’re not using a Galaxy Note 7.

  • AlolanYoda@mander.xyz
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    Pack a bomb??

    I’m worried about them randomly selecting my bag for drug inspection or the bag being tagged in the X-ray… And the TSA agents judging my bag packing method and skills

    • kurwa@lemmy.world
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      I just wish I didn’t have to take electronics out of my bag for security, doing all of this is already stressful.

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    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.

  • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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    Or just be non-white. Then you will know you are going to be selected for a special screening.

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    Or a knife

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      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.

      • Emerald@lemmy.world
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        simulated explosive devices

        And real ones too

        https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FpN_RjIaVw8

    • embed_me@programming.dev
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      Or nail trimmers or a tennis ball

      • Sotuanduso@lemm.ee
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        You’re not allowed to bring nail trimmers? I did…

        • Frog@lemmy.ca
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          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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            I have been told by the TSA agents they only really ever take it if it has a pointed file on it, as those can be made into disguised knives. This is why you see much fewer of them on clippers these days.

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  • Aceticon@lemmy.world
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    More like “I sure hope I didn’t pack a bottle of water by accident” (or any other liquit in a container of more than 100ml).

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    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.

    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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      The same way people board planes with loaded fire arms? The TSA is run by dumbfucks and is a waste of money.

      • FellowEnt@sh.itjust.works
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        Should’ve specified this was Venice, Italy. Baggage screening was in the UK where they’re very much not used to firearms/explosives in hand luggage.

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