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 Posted: 12/23/02 - 22:05 Post subject: Excuse me Ma'am is that a chainsaw in your carry-on baggage?
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2002/2002-12-22-sea-security.htm
Here is the verbiage!!
Fliers not getting message about security
SEATAC, Wash. (AP) - Despite the focus on prohibited carry-on items since
last year's terrorist attacks, some airline passengers continue to try to
get potential weapons past security checkpoints.
One elderly woman was reportedly surprised when Seattle security screeners
wouldn't let her bring a chain saw on board.
"She had put it in a carry-on bag, fully fueled up," said Nick Zambito, a
Transportation Security Administration screening manager at Seattle-Tacoma
International Airport. "Sometimes I just don't know what people are
thinking."
Zambino cited the incident as one example of how people still haven't gotten
the message that security rules are tight since the Sept. 11, 2001,
terrorist hijackings.
Earlier this week, Transportation Security Administration officials filled
two pickup trucks with 1,200 pounds of surrendered items - all collected in
less than three weeks at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
The contraband did not include more dangerous items such as guns and large
knives, which are handled by Port of Seattle police.
Zambito pointed out a 30-gallon trash can filled to the top with scissors,
knives, cocktail forks, sharp tools and other potential weapons.
The barrel, one of five at Sea-Tac, was filled in just three days.
Security officials at the airport say most fliers just forget they have
these items in their bags, and do not intend to harm anyone.
However, some fliers do intentionally conceal weapons. Sea-Tac screeners
have found sharp blades concealed inside phony credit cards and razor blades
smuggled within cell phones, security officials say.
The Sept. 11 hijackers armed themselves with box cutters to take over the
four flights.
Passengers who are caught with contraband are not forced to give it up. They
are allowed to include it in checked baggage or mail it back to themselves.
Diana Sweeney, owner of Ken's Baggage and Frozen Food Storage at Sea-Tac,
said during a typical week about 250 people use her company's services to
mail prohibited items home to themselves
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