What does the TSA do with confiscated items from airline passengers?

[karlrschneider]

My sister just flew in from St. Louis, she forgot she had a little "swiss army" knife, about 2 inches long in her purse.

She had it for about 25 years and they took it away. She told them "okay, that's fine - the next owner might be
a terrorist."

Glurk. :silly:

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. guess who has first choice.

bastards. all of them.

they do nothing to increase safety; all they do is create more governmental control over the sheeple.

"But they are protecting our freedoms by taking it away"

bastards.

[mike6640]

2. Check ebay

The ones that don't get selected by TSA staffers go 'by the pound' sold in lots on eBay.

I always have a blade of some sort on me. Usually a swiss army knife. I had to fly earlier in the year and left all my sharp and shineys at home. Felt naked without them.

Mike

[catmandu57]

11. What am I looking for at ebay

What do I search for? tsa confiscations?

[jannyk]

3. They sell them. They are all carted off to big warehouses and

sold - I guess a lot of the stuff (liquids etc) are junked, but a lot is sold.

[AzDar]

5. And if you purchase them on eBay, they will, in many cases, be FLOWN to you by UPS.

Ya can't make this shite up.

[bullwinkle428]

4. Yes, I've gotten screwed TWICE on the Swiss Army/multi-tool

thing at the airport! Something relatively small on your key ring like that is easily forgotten until you get to the secuirty checkpoint, and at that point, it's too late to place in the checked baggage! :grr:

[Neecy]

6. well...

Before TSA, I know a lot of stuff used to be given away to airport staff. I remember the checkpoint manager at Midway airport a few years ago walking around with a huge cardboard box filled with pepper spray and mace, and offering to let airline/airport employees dig in and take what they wanted. I think if the stuff is unclaimed after a certain amount of time it gets dumped.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

7. It's kind of like Iran-Contra.

They confiscate all of the Swiss Army knives and shampoo bottles and ship them to anti-Chavez elements in Venezuela, in return for...

Oh, I give up.

[tritsofme]

8. They just put my small bottle of deodorant in the trash

I forgot to put it in a clear plastic ziplock baggie.

[Der Blaue Engel]

9. I've been trying to figure out how this works

I haven't flown since right before all of the latest "gel" nonsense started. What are you supposed to do with deodorant, exactly, extrude it from the bottle into a baggie??

[tritsofme]

10. If you're checking luggage there's no problem.

But if you want to carry on, the toiletries must be something like less than 3oz and placed in a plastic ziplock baggie.

The deodorant, shampoo, toothpaste, ect is fine in its packaging, but for whatever reason must be placed inside the baggie.