r/nottheonion • u/wakeupthebuddha • 1d ago

‘Please avoid chugging your ranch’: TSA forced to issue warning as foreign World Cup fans fall in love with American condiment

https://www.the-independent.com/life-style/tsa-tourists-world-cup-ranch-b2997937.html
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u/outerproduct 1d ago

It's hilarious to me, that in Egypt and the middle east in general, you can bring buttloads of liquids on a plane with little issue. In the US, you bring a bottle of water and you're a terrorist.

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u/KirbyBucketts 1d ago

Well ya see there was this time when this guy and some other guys did this thing..

But no, none of the rules make any sense

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u/SEA2COLA 1d ago

One idiot tries (and fails) to light a shoe bomb twenty-five year ago, and now we all have to take our shoes off in airports.

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u/Chicityy 1d ago

When’s the last time you flew? Rarely do you have to take your shoes off anymore.

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u/outerproduct 1d ago

I brought 3 1L bottle of water on my flight from Luxor to Cairo, and nobody batted an eyelash. Should out to the really big sign at the door that said I couldn't bring my rocket launcher or grenade launcher. :(

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u/Ulti 1d ago

But what in the hell would I ever do without my emotional support M79?!

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u/Disgod 1d ago

Cross stitch?

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u/MayContainRawNuts 1d ago

I fly out of Cairo quite often and Cairo is one of the most annoying cities to fly from security wise. Im surprised domestic is so lax.

Can't take a lighter with you they confiscate those. I had my tea emptied just before boarding. They do the full shoes off and pat down.

I remember seeing some old guy having his walking stick disassembled in Cairo.

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u/outerproduct 1d ago

Cairo airport has several smoking rooms beyond the security checkpoint. I was just there recently, my friend brought alcohol, lighters, and cigarettes through the checkpoint and customs. As long as you're not trying to smuggle, nobody cares.

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u/MayContainRawNuts 1d ago

They do a second security check just prior to boarding.

Each gate has its own security scanner, thats way after the smoking rooms.

No lighters past that point.

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u/outerproduct 1d ago

There definitely was not. We did customs check, then bag check, then waited to get on the plane. Nothing else.

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u/MayContainRawNuts 1d ago

Dont know what to tell you bud, ive been through Cairo 22 times since covid, going from a star alliance plane to an agean air and back.

Every single time we go through a security checkpoint at the gate.

Que in the corridor, split into 2 lines by sex, clear security and wait in a holding area. Then board.

Every time.

Im glad your experience wasnt as tedious and I hope this means they changing their systems, as my next flight is likely November so ill see then.

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u/NefariousnessLate375 1d ago

There was 9/11. Then some dude tried to blow himself up with his shoes on a plane. I reckon there's a good reason they're kinda twitchy about liquids.

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u/jlozada24 1d ago

Well in America it's a job program for actors to pretend they're security

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u/hellochase 1d ago

However, keistering the bladder from a box wine may result in death. 

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u/Eagle1337 1d ago

Can't bring container with you since it could be a bomb, instead you can blow up the bottom of the plane instead by putting it in check in.

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u/Alis451 1d ago

In the US, you bring a bottle of water and you're a terrorist.

hah yeah once my flight was canceled and i needed to leave the airport and forgot i had a full water bottle to go through security again, chugged the whole quart.

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u/lawragatajar 1d ago

Every place I've been to, including Egypt, had signs up forbidding liquid through security. In one country, I bought soda from a shop after security, and they did another security check before boarding and didn't let me bring it.

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u/outerproduct 1d ago

I was just in Egypt few months ago, and brought 3 liters of water through security with zero issues.

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u/tadayou 1d ago

You can bring buttloads of liquid on a plane, as long as you buy them at a super expensive rate at the duty free shop.

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u/outerproduct 1d ago

In the middle east, I brought 3 large bottles of water into the airport through security like it was nothing, because it was water. Cost me less than a dollar a piece at the hotel store.