4.8 million items stolen by screeners

[Aknauta]

cnn.com


TSA: More than 4.8 million items seized
40,000 box cutters, machete, trailer hitch among items confiscated
Tuesday, March 11, 2003 Posted: 11:18 AM EST (1618 GMT)


WASHINGTON (AP) -- Despite reminders that potential weapons aren't allowed in airliner cabins, people are still trying to bring tens of thousands of knives, dozens of guns and thousands of box cutters on board planes every month.

Airport screeners have seized more than 4.8 million items -- including guns, knives, a kitchen sink pipe and a circular saw -- in the 13 months the federal government has been in charge of security.
Since February 2002, TSA screeners confiscated 1.4 million knives, 2.4 million sharp objects, 1,101 guns, 15,666 clubs, more than 125,000 incendiary items and nearly 40,000 box cutters.

Link (http://www.cnn.com/2003/TRAVEL/03/10/airport.security.ap/index.html)

[Janice Ann]

My only question here is why do you think they were stolen?

The TSA is more than explicit in what you can bring on an aircraft and what you cannot. They are also very explicit in that fact that if you do try to bring them on board an aircraft they will be confiscated, in other words, removed, taken away and not returned.

If a person, with everything that has happened within the last eighteen months, is still stupid enough, either through their own total lack of current events or just plain daaaah, which by this time has to be just one and the same, then they are going to lose these items and that is all there is to it.

[Leelanau]

For the people that wanted to carry on a trailer hitch... why? My cousin still transports knives and stuff through his check-in luggage when he returns from mission trips. If you want to carry something unusual, why not just check it?? It's expensive to replace some of those items they listed, it's stupid to think they are going to let you carry them in. For gosh sakes, my mother had her nail clippers confiscated! I can understand wanting to protect yourself while on a plane, but that's what the air marshals are there for!