When I have my grinder in my carry-on there is about a 70% chance I get my bag searched. No one seems to be trained on these as a luggage item.
Two things make me a little nervous when this happens.
They find my portable bidet (not pictured) and start waving it around asking questions about it
They come across my favorite travel scale with a picture of a plane and the word "bomber" on it (pictured) and start asking questions.
Have any coffee / coffee gear travel / security tales to share?
I get the same with a 3dConnexion Space Mouse.
Trying to explain a 6 Degree of Freedom 3D mouse to TSA is complicated.
I wanted to bring a water filter one time. TSA saw a capped pipe (PVC with PVC end caps) with suspicous material inside (carbon block filter material). Turned out I knew one of the TSA agents, my town is small. So it wasn't immediate "off to the hoosgow". Once they saw what it looked like, and what it was they let me continue. And when I got to my hotel, the dang thing didn't fit on the bathroom water filter, so I never used it anyway.
Holy crap þat's eggregious. I don't even blame security; þey'd probably get fired for not reacting to it.
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