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Good Afternoon (I mean it, it's actually sunny out!) -

I looked on the TSA website and could probably look for about three more hours without a clear explanation. So, I am here with my question. I believe the answer to both my questions is YES.

1. Can prescription medications be brought in a carry-on (pill form) - they will be in the original prescription bottle.

2. Can electric razors be brought on in a carry-on?

Thanks for your help!

Tracy

Yes and yes just did both.
I wish they had detained me in STT

Both are fine. Pills, in any container (assuming they're legal pills) are fine.

I bring my electric razor all the time. No problems.

The key is to not bring a circular saw, a nail gun, a chain saw (all items I've watched people try to pass through) and to keep your liquids under 4oz and in a quart sized bag.

I agree that it is yes to both.

It's the white powdery stuff and spear guns that seem to give them some chest pains.

JIM

Thanks! I did notice on the TSA site that I am not allowed to bring my sword in my carry-on - oh Darn!!!

Just so there is no confusion, it is 3 ounces for carry-on liquids and gels.

The TSA's motto is 3-1-1...3 ounces, 1 quart, 1 bag per passenger

I've seen them take stuff from people when the container said 3.5 ounces.

Tracy in WI wrote:Thanks! I did notice on the TSA site that I am not allowed to bring my sword in my carry-on - oh Darn!!!

Your handcuffs are not allowed on the plane either.

You can, however, bring a 10 inch titanium knitting neddle with you. That's your tax dollars at work.

JIM

Teresa_Rae wrote:Just so there is no confusion, it is 3 ounces for carry-on liquids and gels.

The TSA's motto is 3-1-1...3 ounces, 1 quart, 1 bag per passenger

I've seen them take stuff from people when the container said 3.5 ounces.

Medicines aren't subject to the limit. And yes, the container cannot be any larger than 3 ounces.

This is a great resource for those of you who haven't found it yet. http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtravel/ ... items.shtm It lists most things with a "yes" or "no." I was happy to see that I can bring my toy transformer robot and whipped cream. Whew. Lucky break.

I was fascinated when, while going through security last weekend, the security guy pulled a large screwdriver out of the bag of the fellow in front of me, looked at it, and shoved it back in, but he made me give up the lip gloss that I had neglected to cram into my ziploc bag. Go figure.

I once "tried" to fly with a box cutter. It was 2005. We had just moved to NC and I was being summoned back to NJ.

I packed up and was at the airport at 4:30AM. They X-rayed my laptop bag and then re-ex-rayed it. Then, they pulled me and the bag aside.

TSA: Where's the box cutter?
Me: (Pees pants a little). What?
TSA: Just tell us where it is
Me: (Pees pants a lot). What?
TSA: We know you have one. In a side pocket.
Me: (Opens bag...pulls out box cutter that we lost while moving...necessitating the use of my teeth to open 47,000 moving boxes). Oh...there that is.
TSA: We can dispose of it for you
Me: Please do so. I have to change my pants

I also learned that my after-market laptop power adapter/plug thing resembles a weapon. I learned this at Islip NY when I had to dump the contents of that same laptop bag on a table while they searched for something that resembled, to the X-ray at least, a club.

One more: When I busted up my knee, I would travel with ankle weights so I could do in-room physical therapy. Well, they look like giant bags of heavy stuff to the X-Ray. The tech in PHL asked me "Am I going to see something in that bag that will upset me?" When he opened my bag and saw my Travelocity Gnome nestled among my ankle weights, he cracked up and let me go.

Pipanale-
Do you really have a Roaming Gnome?

Yep, I have lost a Leatherman tool that went through 3 major world conflicts and a swiss army knife from high school due to forgetting they were in my computer bag. How can I travel without tools!!!

Sweet Christine's hair brush looks like a bottle of water in xray - alumunized plastic is a ticket to the hand search line.

Cheers, RickG

Rats!! I never thought about my snow globe being outlawed... Guess I'll have to leave it behind.

I can take a knitting needle and nitro (in pill form), though, along with a 7" screwdriver, wrench, and pliers. That's really surprising! Curley, Moe and Larry could have easily incapacitated an entire crew and caused some real damage. (Shemp, however, would likely have been less of a terrorist threat.)

I can just see Osama in a cave somewhere pouring over Stooges re-runs to see how he could use them for his next wave of instructional videos...

VickiH wrote: I was fascinated when, while going through security last weekend, the security guy pulled a large screwdriver out of the bag of the fellow in front of me, looked at it, and shoved it back in.

See, this is the type of thing I would have wanted more info on. Why was he carrying a large screw driver? For work? For fun?

LysaC wrote:Pipanale-
Do you really have a Roaming Gnome?

We have 2. One was bought one night when we were drunk. The other came from a friend. We have named them Sir Clarence and Sir Christopher. In fact, we don't refer to him as the Roaming Gnome at all; he's Sir Clarence.

Our daughter calls him that as well. We've not done the best job when it has come to teaching her the proper names of things. She calls things by the names we do. They're often made up and nothing near the truth.