Today, I missed my flight because I was stopped by airport security. They found "small, suspicious, spherical objects" in my purse on the X-ray. After pulling me out of line, taking my purse aside and carefully opening it with tongs, they removed the bag of grapes I had packed as a snack. FML
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Today, I was boarding my flight when I got pulled aside for looking suspicious. As she was opening my bag, I said, "Be careful, I jammed so many clothes in there it may explode." I was then strip searched for my trouble. FML
Today, I borrowed a friend's suitcase for a trip. At the airport, security pulled me aside because there was a small metal object inside. I opened the suitcase expecting something suspicious and found a potato peeler. My friend had used the suitcase for groceries the week before. FML
Today, after visiting my mom, she stuffed a bunch of pads in my backpack so I'd have some at my dorm. When I was going through security, I was stopped and ended up missing my flight. Apparently the jumbo pads my mom sent look exactly like packs of cocaine when they go through the X-ray machine. FML
Today, I packed my bags and left for the airport. When I passed through security, the X-ray scanner discovered that my cat had also come along for the ride. FML
Today, while going through airport security the lady asked why I folded everything so small. I said that I was going away for a month and needed to fit a lot of stuff in only one bag. She smiled, nodded and then dumped my luggage to search for "drugs and other illegal teen things." FML
Today, I was going through airport security. Trying to get things over and done with quickly, I dropped my pants without a second thought. Turns out they just wanted me to remove my shoes and belt. FML
Today, I was supposed to catch a 4:40 flight to New York. My 5 year-old son handed me my carry on bag as I left the house. Turns out he had put his older brother's BB gun into my bag to "keep me safe." I missed my flight after I was detained and strip-searched. FML
Today, I missed my flight because I was held in airport security because I'd "threatened" an employee. He had confiscated my eyelash curler and jokingly I asked if he thought I was going to curl him to death. He didn't laugh. FML
Today, while going through customs at the airport, my bag was selected for screening. It was nearly overflowing because it was so full, so before the TSA agent searched it, I said, "Watch out - it's going to explode when you open it". Wrong choice of words. FML
Today, my mother-in-law had concealed in her suitcase a kitchen knife and plastic bags of MSG, salt, and other seasonings (AKA unidentified white powder) because she doesn’t trust foreign food, and wanted to cook her own food on holiday. Airport security were not amused and we missed our flight. FML
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dino_witha_cape 0
yeah, if you bite into those things they could squirt someone's eye out
Jcsati8 0
If you pack baby carrots, will they think you are carrying ammo? Damn airport security!
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Comments (203)
fuckitsmandee 0
awh. next time don't pack the grapes and buy the food there.
steveyboyz 0
haha, a similar thing happened to me once, when i was carrying a box of 12 golf balls, and they thought they were bombs... i get ur feeling. :)
kiwigirl95 0
You were stupid to pack grapes. There are signs like every 5 steps at airports, telling you not to bring any fresh food. You deserved it.
Jertastic 0
You see too many Grape bombs now-a-days.
darkmis1 18
YDI. Ur not supposed to bring food or liquids on a plane in the 1st place. Everybody knows that.
lalalalou99 0
yeah i know there's a french version and that it was there first- i am french, i've been following it. Besides, they just took it off because people posted on there that he had copied this one so stop being a douche, number 86.
justdance45 0
YDI for travelling with fruit. especially if this was an international flight.
erhyme3 0
Next time look up what you can bring past security before hand. YDI
lindzXcore 0
you deserved that, you're not supposed to have anything like that in your bag. similar thing happened to me, i was going through security and i forgot about body wash that was in my bag and it was more then 3 oz, so they took it away. BRAND new, 10 dollar one, too.
cthulhu1138 1
To all the people deriding the security personnel for being paranoid, they can't tell they're grapes just by looking at the x-ray. All they see are some ellipsoidal objects. So, they open up the purse to see what they are. Many of the above posters assume that security knew they were grapes before opening up the purse, which is a rather ridiculous assumption to make. Honestly, it's the JOB of security personnel to be paranoid. Even if they had a screening method that was 99% likely to correctly identify a terrorist or smuggler, the majority of people the method identified as possible terrorists or smugglers wouldn't be. Now, any methods they use are probably far less accurate than our hypothetical one, so by the rules of simple probability you'd expect that the majority of people stopped and searched are not, in fact, terrorists (read up on Bayes' Theorem sometime).