DU_man_84 Posted May 19, 2006 Report Share Posted May 19, 2006 last night my boss called me said he ran into a problem, well we got done working yesterday and after work he took off strait to the airport had to take his daughter back to florida for graduation, well leaving right from work he hadnt changed, well he passed through the medal detector and forgot he had his gerber on his side, so they detained him, called me back a little later and said they talked to him and told him he was gonna get a warning or a 1000 dollar fine, so then 4 hours later from this incident, he called and said he was boarding and he just got the warning, i thought it was pretty funny, i joked about him prolly getting a cavity search but he said no, but i dont know bout that lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BowtechTurkeyHunter Posted May 19, 2006 Report Share Posted May 19, 2006 Re: my boss got detained at ohare airport I think he got just what he should have ... a warning ... he shouldn't have had the Gerber on him ... especially since its posted all over the airport your ticket the PA system not to have such items ... its kinda funny now but I bet it wasn't when it happened... Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun_300 Posted May 19, 2006 Report Share Posted May 19, 2006 Re: my boss got detained at ohare airport That would have been pretty scary! Thank gosh he just got a warning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TreeStandBowHunter Posted May 19, 2006 Report Share Posted May 19, 2006 Re: my boss got detained at ohare airport We had one of our Marines who went on leave the other month. He flew out of Boston. He used his Military issued day pack as his carry on as alot of Marines do. I use mine back and forth to work. But anyway, we had just did the rifle and pistol range the week before. Well he left his 9mm pistol magazine in his pack and didn't realize it until they knabbed him at the security check point Needless to say, he flew but not on his scheduled flight. He ended up being delayed for a few hours. They called our duty phone and everything to verify who he was It's not too hard to forget things like that. It never occured to him that he still had that in there. That's probably the same situation here. At least they are catching that stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DU_man_84 Posted May 19, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2006 Re: my boss got detained at ohare airport o yeah its really good they are catching things like that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BowJoe Posted May 19, 2006 Report Share Posted May 19, 2006 Re: my boss got detained at ohare airport TSA has a lot tougher job than people think. I was offered a job as a TSA agent in Hawaii but I don't think we will be leaving anytime soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TxAgJeepr Posted May 19, 2006 Report Share Posted May 19, 2006 Re: my boss got detained at ohare airport Not trying to Hijack the thread, glad to hear your boss made it ok, but I gotta put this out for public consumption. TSA policy is screwed up and here's why. We were leaving from a major East Coast Airport on a military contracted flight for Europe with follow on travel to our current destination, several of my buddies had their UNLOADED (EMPTY, ONLY THE SPRING AND BULLET REST INSIDE, NO BULLETS AT ALL) M-9 and M-4 mags in their carry on bags. Not all of their issue, thankfully, but the one per that is normally carried in the weapon. We all followed the standard proceedure of placing our carry-on bags on the conveyors to be scanned. TSA pulled every one of those guys out, searched their bags, and confiscated the mags. Now mind you, all of us are in uniform and those mags are kinda importaint where we were headed. We argued with the Screeners, the area supervisor, and the Manager about the necessity of those magazines to no avail. TSA kept the mags and my buddies were left to try and scrounge up some once we hit country. Luckily, we were able to do this. TSAs reasoning, magazines, even unloaded ones, are contraband and are not allowed in the cabin of airplanes, even ones contracted by the military. Go Figure... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gator Posted May 19, 2006 Report Share Posted May 19, 2006 Re: my boss got detained at ohare airport [ QUOTE ] Not trying to Hijack the thread, glad to hear your boss made it ok, but I gotta put this out for public consumption. TSA policy is screwed up and here's why. We were leaving from a major East Coast Airport on a military contracted flight for Europe with follow on travel to our current destination, several of my buddies had their UNLOADED (EMPTY, ONLY THE SPRING AND BULLET REST INSIDE, NO BULLETS AT ALL) M-9 and M-4 mags in their carry on bags. Not all of their issue, thankfully, but the one per that is normally carried in the weapon. We all followed the standard proceedure of placing our carry-on bags on the conveyors to be scanned. TSA pulled every one of those guys out, searched their bags, and confiscated the mags. Now mind you, all of us are in uniform and those mags are kinda importaint where we were headed. We argued with the Screeners, the area supervisor, and the Manager about the necessity of those magazines to no avail. TSA kept the mags and my buddies were left to try and scrounge up some once we hit country. Luckily, we were able to do this. TSAs reasoning, magazines, even unloaded ones, are contraband and are not allowed in the cabin of airplanes, even ones contracted by the military. Go Figure... [/ QUOTE ] Now that makes absolutely NO SENSE whatsoever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted May 19, 2006 Report Share Posted May 19, 2006 Re: my boss got detained at ohare airport Sure it wasnt very funny for him when it happened, but glad to hear that security is working, and they detained him, just to bad he got held up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TreeStandBowHunter Posted May 19, 2006 Report Share Posted May 19, 2006 Re: my boss got detained at ohare airport Another reason why I think the US Military should run everything in this country! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ultratec1 Posted May 19, 2006 Report Share Posted May 19, 2006 Re: my boss got detained at ohare airport Sept 23rd 2001, the trade towers had just fallen and the world was in a frenzy, my 13 man team that I was assigned to had just been called up and we were heading to a "undisclosed" location. We were to take commerical flights from the states to Germany where we would connect with a military C-17 and then a flight to Saudi then from there was a chopper ride to our location. We were all told that we were to hand a copy of our orders to the scanners at the airport and then we would be routed around the lines so we could connect with our flights. We had all gone through but 1 guy and he was walking through the by-pass section when a national guard member told him to halt which he did, then he was detained and held AT GUNPOINT for trying to sneek past the metal detector. He tried to explain the situation and even had our Team leader who was an E-8 try to get things straight. The guard member (in exact words) Get your F'ing beep back or I will be forced to used deadly force. After an hour of trying to get his supervisor and get going we ended up missing 3 other flights through out the day. Sometimes the airport security is the craziest thing that has happened to airline companies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exturkinator Posted May 19, 2006 Report Share Posted May 19, 2006 Re: my boss got detained at ohare airport I lost a nice pocket knife in 2002 the same way - they said I could take it back to my car, go to the post office in the airport and mail it, or just surrender it -but no mention of a fine or other nonsense... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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