Rocket blower confiscated at Airport because it's shaped like a grenade!

chadders said:
Is this problem peculiar to Manchester Airport? Two weeks ago I flew to Italy from there. My hand luggage (camera bag) was pulled out for a search. I didn't have a problem, but the guy went straight to my Canon 5D and pulled it out. He took one look and apologised. He said that the operator hadn't recognised the mysterious object was actually a camera.
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He was probably a nikon shooter experiencing body envy
 
Is this problem peculiar to Manchester Airport?
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Not sure what problem you are on about, more so as you go onto describe something totally different.

The problem here is bad reporting. The blower brush comes under the heading of being put in an oversized envelope, and put into the hold for collection the other end. That obviously doesn't sell papers, or for fill the original informants needs to slate someone because he didn't get his own way.
 
Bernie174 said:
Not sure what problem you are on about, more so as you go onto describe something totally different.

The problem here is bad reporting. The blower brush comes under the heading of being put in an oversized envelope, and put into the hold for collection the other end. That obviously doesn't sell papers, or for fill the original informants needs to slate someone because he didn't get his own way.
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I appreciate you feel the need to defend "authority". But really, are you trying to tell me that the operator examining my bag doesn't recognise a camera when he sees one? I would suggest that, that being the case alternative employment be found for him. Something more in keeping with his abilities. As for describing something different I am merely drawing attention to the apparent lack of talent at that particular airport. Manchester is an airport that I am a frequent user of and well acquainted with it's shortcomings.
 
No Jim, I suggestion you are talking about something else.
There's a vast difference between an object that may, when only glanced at in an aircraft cabin, to be something it's not. And the image given in an x-ray machine, which may well have been at an oblique angle, so not as easily recognizable as you think it is. I'm sure you can recognise any object at any angle when looking at it's innards, or perhaps not, it's so much easier when you're sat in an arm chair than it is doing it, or better still saying it. Until you've walked a mile in the searchers shoes, you're not a position to comment.
Anyway, to return to the ACTUAL question and point, I was simply asking you what connection there is to the subject at hand. It seems to me to be tenuous at best, and at worst utterly irrelevant.
 
jonbeeza said:
Next time I go away better not pack my Diesel aftershave, it's in the shape of a clenched fist but could be mistaken for a hand grenade :eek:
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You can buy that in duty free after security so i think you'll be fine :rolleyes:

chadders said:
Is this problem peculiar to Manchester Airport? Two weeks ago I flew to Italy from there. My hand luggage (camera bag) was pulled out for a search. I didn't have a problem, but the guy went straight to my Canon 5D and pulled it out. He took one look and apologised. He said that the operator hadn't recognised the mysterious object was actually a camera.
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Frightening , if true . Think about how many camera's come through there every day - It's fairly simple for any guard to recognise something we see daily .

FWIW I've been a security guard for 13 years and have never seen an air blower being confiscated.
 
Pretty much every "duty free" shop sells 2lb clubs that can be converted to sharp weapons with relative ease...
 
chris2jz said:
You can buy that in duty free after security so i think you'll be fine :rolleyes:



Frightening , if true . Think about how many camera's come through there every day - It's fairly simple for any guard to recognise something we see daily .

FWIW I've been a security guard for 13 years and have never seen an air blower being confiscated.
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If true? I'm not given to lying for the sake of it.
The guy who searched my bag specifically wanted the camera out to check what it was. He told me that the operator couldn't recognise it. I wouldn't suggest all operators are the same by any means, but I would question the training and observational powers of some.
 
At Inverness airport my hand luggage was opened because of some Stornoway Black Pudding. In fairness to the security as they were opening it up they said, "We are pretty sure what you have in there but just wanted to check." I can imagine on the xray it could have looked odd.

Dave
 
Passing through CdG a few years ago the security pulled my Rocket out of my camera bag, cue puzzled looks, they asked me to explain at which point I squeezed and some air was blown, guard snaps it back off me and then he blows air into his colleague's face, following which the rocket is passed back to me with gales of laughter from the guards...

That is my only POSITIVE experience of CdG

best place for a pat-down is Tokyo Narita:naughty::naughty::naughty:
 
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