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Most ridiculous thing to be confiscated at an airport...

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twentypence · 26/11/2007 00:32

A rubber kids snake from Australia zoo - some old lady might get scared apparently.

Cue one devastated kid the whole way home. But you can't complain to customs officials anymore because you get arrested.

And the gift shop in the airport sells guess what?

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WendyWeber · 03/12/2007 14:09

Very detailed (and depressing) piece in the Guardian at the weekend

I flew to Israel with El Al in 1975. They dismantled my luggage and inspected every last item - opened tins and bottles and poked around inside - asked me where I was going and went off to ring the kibbutz to confirm they were expecting me. But as it says in the article, one airline can do that, the entire airport can't.

The only thing they confiscated was a pair of scissors though. And then I couldn't get everything back into the bags it had all come out of (I am the world's worst for taking too much stuff in too-small bags) and they had to give me a carrier bag for the overflow

Spockster · 03/12/2007 15:07

Rice crackers.

3catstoo · 03/12/2007 16:17

Lipsyl !!??

kittylouise · 03/12/2007 16:25

4 lip glosses at Birmingham airport. 4!! I (uselessly) complained to dp who was at a loss to understand why I had 4 lip glosses in my handbag in the first place.

I now empty my bag more frequently.

At Limoges airport, a jar of jam and a tarte au citron. Bastards.

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twentypence · 03/12/2007 17:59

I'm most bemused by rice crackers and mooncups being taken. What sort of Christmas party do the security staff have?

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CremolaFirCone · 03/12/2007 18:03

dh's socks were confiscated because the man at Stansted said they were radioactive.
seriously they had to be examined by a 'supervisor'. they were posted back to him three weeks later in a brown MI5 envelope that i had to sign for.

bran · 03/12/2007 19:52

Cremola - that's one serious sweaty foot problem your dh has.

Donkeyswife · 03/12/2007 23:09

Chocolate sauce at Tel Aviv airport when I was a young 21 year old kibbutznik and the staff wondered why any young person with an Arabic name would want to go on a Kibbutz - therefore I must be dodgy....sauce must go...!

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twentypence · 04/12/2007 01:20

I've just read that they have found 5.7kg of cocaine in a aircraft toilet. Given that the upper limit is 7kg for a carry on bag someone had a rucksack full of Charlie which they got onto a plane while security were confiscating rubber snakes and mooncups.

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MotherFunk · 04/12/2007 01:44

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LadyOfTheFlowers · 04/12/2007 01:56

I had a Viners fork confiscated from my bag. I had taken it to work the previous week to eat my salad with and forgotten it was in there.
The woman eyballed me very suspiciously as she held it in a pincer grip at the very end of the handle.

'Yes, I know it could be classed as an offensive weapon, but WOMAN PLEASE! It is a VINERS fork! I have only had the set a week!'

HeyThereNappiesGalore · 04/12/2007 02:14

i have found, that when travelling with 2 or 3 undr 4's, there is a huge variation on how 'nice' th security staff can be. somtimes they let you tak the youngest thru in the pushchair and other times, like when 2 toddlers are off in different directions and the one in the chair is already tantrumming coz hes been stuck in a queue for so long, the total bastards will make you take him out, fold up the chair and put it thru the machine with the bags, and carry said wrigglling screamer, along with collecting all bags and rounding up two wayward older toddlers and then TUT at you for taking too long to collect all your stuff and children together again at the other side

gits. what goes around comes around, baby, and those feckrs are in for some nasty shit for that sort of behaviour.

SantaClausFrau · 04/12/2007 03:28

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jacobandlysetteandabump · 04/12/2007 16:01

not confiscated but going to thailand at heathrow security ds was 7 months in very wide buggy at 8pm, sleeping. despite me telling them it wouldn't fit through the scanner, made DH take ds out of buggy, and fold buggy up to try and put it through scanner. when it wouldn't fit they jsut said "o'h ok then put your son back in it"...

SpottyHamster · 04/12/2007 16:12

DS1 had a rock confiscated in Tenerife airport, he was pretty upset! Not sure if they considered it an offensive weapon or if it was illegal to remove rocks from the island (ir would get smaller & smaller if everyone did it!) . On another occasion (Bristol) traces of explosives were found on his gameboy, fortunately they decided it was a false positive & let it go-he was only 10yo at the time. he is paranoid about security chacks now!

kittylouise · 04/12/2007 16:16

pmsl enflanged

I MUST think of a sentence and appropriate social situation to use that word

mybabysinthegarden · 04/12/2007 21:53

Pink furry handcuffs I was taking to a hen party. That'll teach me about buying such silly tat. They missed the chocolate body paint though, AND it was over 100ml

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