Comments on: Protecting American Citizens from Snow Globe Threats

By: Julie

Julie — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 18:06:37 +0000

I was in Atlanta for a church conference this past week and I bought my mother a snow globe at the Georgia Aquarium. I didn’t know that you couldn’t take a snow globe in the carry-on until I went through security and they told me that I couldn’t take it through. Fortunately, security told me that I could go to post office in the Atlanta airport and mail it which I did.

By: Shannon Wagner

Shannon Wagner — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:29:03 +0000

I think it’s important to keep in mind that these sorts of “possibly helpful” security policies are *not okay*. Just my two cents, but I’m stickin’ to them until I see a reason to believe differently. :-)

Oh, and my watermelon was just confiscated. This is the pits. ;-)

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:44:14 +0000

I had my small Statue of Libery snowglobe confiscated at JFK yesterday! How ridiculous that they think we’re stupid enough to believe that it is for safety measures! The security guard gently put it in the trash, after telling me I didn’t have enough time to go and check the bag. If I had checked it, it would have been broken by the baggage handlers! I am so angry over this. Mine was only $15 (plus tax, of course) but my girlfriend had one too, and hers was around $40. The handler even told her she would mail it to her only to be shot down by security! Then I noticed that after we got through there there was stuff in glass bottles for sale like alcohol and perfume! WTF? It has NOTHING to do with security and everything to do with trying to force you to buy crap from the airport! If it was a “security” issue, then pretty soon they’ll be telling us that people’s glasses could be used as a weapon, and making people take eyesight checks to verify that they need glasses. The same thing goes with water- there is nothing in a sealed bottle of water that could be dangerous- but the Pro Active I saw for sale has chemicals in it that could burn your eyes, same as perfume!
This country has got to pull it’s head out of it’s ass and start taking back the rights we have as citizens of a supposedly free nation!

BTW, I am sending a bill to Delta, the FAA, and the White House. Maybe it’s time someone wakes up and realizes that they have gone too far! People need to start demanding that we quit being treated like terrorists and start being treated like citizens of a country that relys on it’s tax payers to bail their butts out every time we turn around!

By: Allison

Allison — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:32:11 +0000

I got my Tybee Island snowglobe confiscated at the Savannah Georgia airport yesterday! I never even thought that it would be a problem. It was a small one, very cute. Didn’t realize it would be considered weaponry.

By: Lori

Lori — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 02:42:07 +0000

I love ridiculous airport anecdotes! I didn’t have my sunscreen in a plastic bag once. It was a small keychain bottle of sunscreen, like an ounce and a half. It was my only liquid item, it just wasn’t in a plastic bag. They tried to confiscate it. I was drunk. Really drunk. I was in Hawaii, headed back to Oakland, and the guy said something like, “you won’t need this in Oakland.” I argued. I argued ‘em up real good. They let me keep it, I think just to shut me up.