How to get around the new air travel rules
This is a tip for the business and regular travellers out there who don’t want to buy toothpaste every time you fly somewhere: Put the stuff in your pockets. Yes, this won’t work if you don’t wear pants, if you have a metal container, and this won’t work if you get searched in the gate (which they hardly ever do anyway), but this will work most of the time.
Also, if you’re a smoker, go on and put your lighter in your pocket. Unless it’s a zippo it doesn’t have enough metal in it to trigger the metal detectors.
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September 13th, 2006 at 11:06 am
i did this on sunday. it worked for the most part but i had a small container of lotion in my back pocket because my front pockets were full. they guy who waved me through the metal detector saw me standing at the conveyor belt waiting for my bag to come through and asked me what it was. i had to hand it over. of course, he didn’t bother to look at my front pockets or figure that i might’ve had other stuff.
anyway, now that you’ve posted this on a public forum and it is out there, i’m sure we’ll have to go through with our pockets pulled out of our pants.