Monday, August 07, 2006

TSA: Prohibited Items

Hey guys, I'll be going to Vermont for a couple of weeks.I was at the TSA website
trying to check if I could carry my razor blades on the airplane and unfortunately
it falls in the list of unaccepted items because they aren't in a cartridge
but more traditional like these:



I got a kick out of how casually you find items such as hand grenades next to regular
items like golf clubs.

Here's a complete list:

# Automatic weapons
# Axes
# Baseball bats
# BB guns
# Billy clubs
# Blackjacks
# Blasting caps
# Bows and arrows
# Box cutters
# Brass knuckles
# Bull whips
# Cattle prods
# Compressed air guns
# Corkscrews
# Cricket bats
# Crow bars
# Disabling chemicals or gases
# Dog repellent spray
# Dynamite
# Fire extinguishers
# Flare pistols
# Golf clubs
# Gun lighters
# Gunpowder
# Hammers
# Hand grenades
# Hatchets
# Hockey sticks
# Hunting knives
# Ice axe/Ice pick
# Knives (any length)
# Kubatons
# Large heavy tools (such as wrenches pliers etc.)
# Mace
# Martial arts devices
# Meat cleavers
# Metal scissors with pointed tips
# Numchucks
# Pellet guns
# Pen knives
# Pepper spray
# Pistols
# Plastic explosives
# Pool cues
# Portable power drills
# Portable power saws
# Razor blades (not in a cartridge)
# Religious knives
# Replica weapons
# Revolvers
# Rifles
# Road flares
# SCUBA knives
# Sabers
# Screwdrivers
# Shot guns
# Ski poles
# Spear guns
# Starter pistols
# Straight razors
# Stun guns/shocking devices
# Swords
# Tear gas
# Throwing stars
# Toy transformer robots (this toy forms a toy gun)
# Toy weapons"

TSA: TSA Issues Guidelines to Help Passengers through Security and Expands List of Prohibited Items

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