Dang TSA In STT!!!

[minnjim]

Flew out on Sunday and had two splints on my fingers. That set off the security thing on the walk-through. Fine, frisk me. Then they go through my bag with a fine tooth comb. They find three 5 ounce bottles, still unopened of different hot sauces from St. John Spice. "You can't have these, they're over the size limit." Grrrrrrrrrrr...... .
Somebody's enjoying $20 worth of Blind Betty on my money.

[CariBert]

Bummer! Although I understand that Blind Betty Hot Sauce can be lethal!

I really wish they wouldn't do stuff like that. It is sooooo irritating!

-Bert

[minnjim]

As long as I'm ranting.....that snack bar at the airport is a JOKE! The food sucked (although what airport food doesn't?) and since there was only one person taking people's orders, the line was all the way out to about 20' from the security checkpoint.
Ahhhhhhh........I feel so much better now.

[Steve S]

They could make sooo much money at that airport departure area selling cold drinks. I think a 5 year old could come up with a business plan.

STT Lemonade Stand

Sell = $2
Cost = $.5
Incremental profit = $1.50
Sales per week = 3000
Profit per year = $225,000 - $25,000 for corner rent and kickbacks.

Retiring a Millionaire at 15 - Priceless

[Steve S]

Flew out on Sunday and had two splints on my fingers. That set off the security thing on the walk-through. Fine, frisk me. Then they go through my bag with a fine tooth comb. They find three 5 ounce bottles, still unopened of different hot sauces from St. John Spice. "You can't have these, they're over the size limit." Grrrrrrrrrrr...... .
Somebody's enjoying $20 worth of Blind Betty on my money.

I wonder if you changed the 5 to a 3 in pen on the label they would notice?

[brenda]

As long as I'm ranting.....that snack bar at the airport is a JOKE! The food sucked (although what airport food doesn't?) and since there was only one person taking people's orders, the line was all the way out to about 20' from the security checkpoint.
Ahhhhhhh........I feel so much better now.

Jeez, I was stupidly hoping that the food at the airport had improved somewhat since they renovated the snack bar. The best grub that we have had there was when the snack bar was closed. They had beef hot dogs on one of those grill things that weren't bad at all. Our flight out was delayed, so we had not much better to do than eat .

[snorkeler525]

Flew out on Sunday and had two splints on my fingers. That set off the security thing on the walk-through. Fine, frisk me. Then they go through my bag with a fine tooth comb. They find three 5 ounce bottles, still unopened of different hot sauces from St. John Spice. "You can't have these, they're over the size limit." Grrrrrrrrrrr...... .
Somebody's enjoying $20 worth of Blind Betty on my money.

Well, it is the TSA rule and they likely saw them on x-ray so you can't be mad at the guys at STT; be mad that the rule exists.

In the Cancun a/p, they let everyone through security with big bottles of water, etc. and let you buy them (not duty free though) post security, but when you go to board a US bound flight, they hand search all bags and throw out all the big bottles! Lots of really ticked people since they don't advertise what they are going to do; only know about it from past trips.

[flip-flop]

What is amazing to me is all the stuff I found in my bag after the virtual strip search that they should have caught. I usually try to be really good about my quart ziplock, but when the kids are with me sometimes I get a little careless.

Coming back from Orlando where the security "effort" seemed to be in full effect, I made it through with a bottle of milk (not a baby bottle either), a thing of hand sanitizer, 5 oz thing of lotion and a tiny sunscreen. All just loose in my carry-on.

Luckily I was not arrested!

[RickG]

I think what TSA finds really depends on the cross-section. Sweet Christine's round hairbrush with it's aluminized business end shows up as a large opaque container like a liquid. They give her a good search.

Cheers, RickG

[Suds]

Hey we had great burgers there yesterday- yeah it was slow and all... Had drinks departing @ Mountaintop and another at the airport on the plane - ZZZZZ.

You know what T.S.A. stands for?
Thousands Standing Around

Can't wait to get back.

Suds

[Teresa_Rae]

I was in Hong Kong shortly before Christmas the year before last and decided to buy my uncle some Chinese jelly. He’s a jelly fanatic, and instead of the usual jelly or jam I thought he’d get a kick out of weird jelly with a foreign language all over it. I bought it in the airport after going through security. Just before my gate there was a line and they were doing physical searches on every single carry-on bag. They found my jelly and confiscated it. I explained to them that I bought it after security, but they claimed it didn’t matter. I even showed them my receipt to prove that I purchased it 5 minutes earlier and they refused. I showed them that I could fit it into my small bag of liquids and they weren’t impressed, saying that it wasn’t a personal item so it couldn’t go into my liquids bag. They claimed that the extra precautions were because it was a US-bound flight, but I told them that in the US we can carry on liquids/gels as long as they are purchased after security. But they weren’t having it, and I lost my jelly. I was so mad.

To make it even more insulting, there was a place to buy drinks right next to the gate (after the bag search), so I was able to buy a bottle of water there and carry it on, just not the jelly that I’d bought 50 feet before the gate.

[ready4paradise]

minnjim,

Thats kind of funny! We came home on Sunday also, and guess what we had in our carry ons, 3 bottles of hot sauces. This was our first time with carry on only, I packed everything up when we left like I was going to check it. Duh! I guess it was a big day for the TSA employees to stock up their cupboards at our expense. Sure hope they like the Blind Betty from St. John Spice.

[minnjim]

minnjim,

Thats kind of funny! We came home on Sunday also, and guess what we had in our carry ons, 3 bottles of hot sauces. This was our first time with carry on only, I packed everything up when we left like I was going to check it. Duh! I guess it was a big day for the TSA employees to stock up their cupboards at our expense. Sure hope they like the Blind Betty from St. John Spice.

"Look what I got today at work,....silly tourists."
"Not more blind Betty?! That's the 18th bottle this week! Don't they ever take back Heinz?"
"Just be quiet and go catch that chicken!"

[RonUSVI]

Maybe you should be contacting Blind Betty to request a new carry on size so you can carry it on next time rather than blame the TSA for doing their job!

[CariBert]

Good one Ron! But, it is a rare occasion when you can blame the TSA for doing their job.......

a little TSA humor there....very little...