I got flagged for a random TSA pat down once and the agent asked me if I had any metal in my body. I replied “I have an IUD”. The agent freaks out and starts flagging other agents over. She musters all her calm and says “Please repeat that you have an IED on you” to which I had to say “no, an IUD, a copper intrauterine device, for birth control”. She didn’t know what an IUD was and I had to explain it to her. I bet she’ll remember now!
I’m a cop at a place I shouldn’t disclose on reddit. But it’s open to the general public. My very first arrest came from a person telling me they had a live grenade on them. He literally walked up to me and said, “I have a grenade on me.”
Everything else happened really fast. Because I had him repeat exactly what he said to me before I took him to the ground and 6 other officers showed up to help me.
I once went through security with a jar of live wasps in my bag. (I was studying entomology at the time) The security guy searching my bag pulled it out and gave me the most hilariously fed-up face I’ve ever seen in my life.
Let me go through, though. I guess a jar of wasps don’t count as a weapon.
Because if you release them, they're just as likely to attack the person who released them as anyone else so it's harder to use them to gain control of the plane.
I was thinking more like the chaos that could insue from opening them on a plane. Like how you can't yell "fire" in a crowded movie theater, I think opening the jar would cause panic and possibly a stampede (as much as you can get in an airplane.) then if any get into the cockpit, they could cause issues there as well.
So not using them as a weapon to take over the plane but using them as a means to hurt the people on the plane.
I had a bag full of weird boxes with organics in them. Opened it up and jumped back. Turns out the owner was some kind of spider expert and had a bunch of different live spiders in there. Now people think I'm weird for asking if they study spiders before a bag search.
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u/mariahmce 29d ago
I got flagged for a random TSA pat down once and the agent asked me if I had any metal in my body. I replied “I have an IUD”. The agent freaks out and starts flagging other agents over. She musters all her calm and says “Please repeat that you have an IED on you” to which I had to say “no, an IUD, a copper intrauterine device, for birth control”. She didn’t know what an IUD was and I had to explain it to her. I bet she’ll remember now!