TSA and airport security are completely unpredictable and hopeless IMO. I try to check all my weapons of minimal destruction just to reduce my personal hassles. But I boarded a plane 3 weeks ago with my Swiss army knife in my pocket. I feel better when I'm the most heavily armed passenger on an aircraft. When I tried to board a return flight 2 years ago, I was informed that my driver's license was expired and therefore I might not still be the same person as depicted in the expired license photograph. So I was shunted over to the special terrorist screening line where the terrorist screener took stuff out of my carry on backpack and wiped down the inside with a special cloth that can detect explosive residue. Fortunately for me, the special cloth did not detect my 4" folding hunting knife or my Leatherman tool with its assorted sharp points and blades. Fortunately all the way around, I'd forgotten that those things were still in my backpack and not in my checked bag, so I didn't act like a suspicious terrorist, and the dumbshit TSA terrorist screener didn't notice them either. Man I love being the most heavily armed person on an airplane!
Alaska Airlines is cool with carrying fishing rods and tackle on their aircraft, but TSA is unpredictable. Fly lines and flies are sometimes seen as potential weapons; sometimes they aren't. How stupid is the whole TSA concept? Besides entirely, I mean.
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