So the lady made us wait for a few minutes while my daughter, who is 14 and hasn’t been on a plane since she was 4, started getting freaked out. Then she finally got her bag and opened it and searched it very thoroughly while asking us about whether or not she had any sharp objects.
She dresses punky despite loving Hello Kitty and she packed some spiked jewelry, so we thought maybe that was it.
It was not.
It was her deodorant.
The lady pulled out her deodorant, took it over to some special station where she did some sort of chemical analysis, and then gave it back and told us to zip up her case and leave.
Thanks for protecting the airport from dangerous deodorant, TSA! Great job!
You gotta remember there are people who get there kids to be drug mules. So yes in this instance it seems weird. But theres about 1 million ways people have tried to smuggle things. No matter the ethics, inside concealment. Hollowing out containers replacing normal products with stubstances or precursors to make drugs.
I watch alot of “Austrian border security” on youtube and you would not believe some way people try to smuggle stuff. A few months ago they imbedded precursors to make meth. Inside of a less than 1mm clear sheet of plastic. Crazy shit
Sounds like a good idea to stop prosecuting people for drugs in that case.
It’s not just drugs dude.
Okay, what else can be hidden in a bar of deodorant? Do you think people are packing it with C4 or something? I’m not even sure how that would work.
For the record, C4 is a putty. You’d just mold it like a piece of play-doh.
Plenty of other very dangerous things easily smuggled all sorts of ways. Get creative (but seriously DON’T).