I walked through Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport Security w/coins in my pocket

bidask

2 quarter, 3 dimes, a nickel, and 4 pennies

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savoyspecial

What advantage is there to posting this?

lcoopie

I'm surprised they didn't taze you.

MsMorrisine

I went through Ontario, Calif. metal detectors with a fistful of change.

One went off, the other did not.

I made a point of going back through the one that didn't and it didn't again.


everyone there seemed not to care.

Shamika

I travel frequently and I could share stories much worse than this.

The metal detectors are only sensitive to larger pieces of metal.

bidask

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To question airport security?

I thought that unusual.

PerryHall

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I think he was warning people that airport security isn't as secure as you thought. I found it to be quite interesting. I had to go to the local court house to handle my mother's estate. When I went through the security point I had to put my wallet through the x-ray machine. The security guard told me that people were smuggling razor blades into the court in their wallets.

SeattleSlammer

You guys were under the impression that airport security is top notch?

Dolan

"Airport security" is one of my favorite oxymorons, right after "military intelligence," "Microsoft works," "airline food," and of course... "full faith and trust of the United States government."

braddick

^
Good point.
All United States airports should simply disband all security measures and allow anyone and everyone to freely walk into airports and board planes.
Clearly, as stated above, security is overrated and doesn't work.

ricko

I flew 76 times in the last year and twice security picked up on a loose COIN I had left in my pocket...a quarter once and a nickel the second time. This was going through the 'arms akimbo' scanner, not the metal alert system. Excessive coins in my carry on also caused rescanning....Cheers RickO

coindeuce

I once approached the pre-screener at Buffalo International when I was late for boarding. Imagine my horror when I pulled a retractable box cutter from work out of my pocket along with my driver's license.
Man, did I ever get the stinkeye from that rent-a -cop!

WTCG

For the last decade I've been averaging about 140-160 flight segments per year and I can tell you some stories about what I've seen involving the TSA that'll make you dirty your underwear. The one with the asleep officers in Reno seems to stand out.

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<< <i>What advantage is there to posting this? >>

To question airport security?

I thought that unusual. >>

You should have taken it up with them at the time it occured otherwise, absolutely nothing is accomplished to beef up or address Airport Security.

Telling a bunch of coin nerds certainly won't help. Posting on a public coin forum does more damage than good come to think of it as it exposes a potential weakness which others might just try to exploit. It's not like they aren't already on the lookout.

stealer

<< <i>For the last decade I've been averaging about 140-160 flight segments per year and I can tell you some stories about what I've seen involving the TSA that'll make you dirty your underwear. The one with the asleep officers in Reno seems to stand out. >>


Let's hear 'em!

Have any tried to make a grab at the stuff in your baggage under the guise that they are doing "extra" searching?

WTCG

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<< <i>For the last decade I've been averaging about 140-160 flight segments per year and I can tell you some stories about what I've seen involving the TSA that'll make you dirty your underwear. The one with the asleep officers in Reno seems to stand out. >>


Let's hear 'em!

Have any tried to make a grab at the stuff in your baggage under the guise that they are doing "extra" searching? >>



Haven't had anybody make a grab at the coins. I've been all over the country carrying coins and regardless of where I am the vast majority of the time the TSA personnel are professional enough and discreet enough to not pose any major security issues. Also I have never been denied a private screening when I've requested one although there were a few times I was delayed because of inadequate facilities or staffing.

One bad incident happened in (I recall) late 2001. It was after 9/11 and before the TSA took over airport security. Private security was still in use at that time and this was also when airports were staffed with uniformed National Guard in camo in a lame attempt to comfort by show. At Chicago O'Hare I got pulled over at the gate for additional screening. They got to the coins and proceeded to lay out all the slabs on the table like in a display case at a coin show in ful view of the public. I raised a stink over that and in response they called over two National Guardsmen to stand there and look tough. It was showboating at its best.

Another time at SFO the CAS officer (SFO is the largest airport in the U.S. that does not use TSA personnel. Even today SFO contracts out security to Covenant Aviaton Security out of Illinois) dropped a full double row box of slabs on the ground, damaging a half dozen slabs in the process and spilling slabs over an area 20 feet in radius. I filed a damage claim and was compensated within a month.

TwoSides2aCoin

The pocket is an inappropriate place to HIDE things if one is looking for a free massage.

lordmarcovan

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'Cause then he gets to tell us that the coins were raw and loose in his pocket, and they were a 1796 and 1916 (Standing Liberty) quarter, a 1913 Liberty nickel, three gem BU 1909-S VDB cents, and a red BU 1877 Indian cent.

SaorAlba

My only negative experience with security was in Amsterdam a few years ago, I had some Swiss gold bars that set off the detectors. They had to look at each and every last one of them like they were some contraband or something. Curiously enough my return flight was just the day before that guy tried to blow up a NWA aircraft bound from Amsterdam to Detroit. Perhaps security should have been looking for bombs instead of gold.

johnny9434

so your still in lock up downtown and they gave you wifi, right?