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[motive_nuance]

I just spent the past hour or so unpacking my small handbag. How can that be, you ask? Unfortunately, that's classified, but I spent the time thinking about how it's our patriotic duty as Americans to spend our time imagining worst-case scenarios.

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[moiety_tx]

Oh noes!!

[motive_nuance]

Quick, somebody call teh internets!

[motive_nuance]

Eh. I managed to remain sanguine about the whole thing. And fortunately, I have a penchant for dark colors.

[the_macnab]

I flew last week, before this latest unpleasantness. I had been helping my mother re-do her kitchen, so I had all sorts of ominous-looking carpentry tools in my bag, top among them a paint scraper:

[griffjon]

This is really going to cramp my bringing back good Nica rum, isn't it? As Stine and Nuance can attest to, rum bottles + Jon's check-in = ground glass in smelly clothes.

[wyndancer]

alas for the apricot preserves! Yay, fed-ex (they don't irradiate their shipments like other carriers do). Bets their going to get a lot more business? It is a sad thing, that officers lack the proper apricot respect.

[bryttan]

I'm sorry to hear about your broken-ness.

I wonder, though, if you will be writing a letter to the screener/the screener's manager(s) about this issue? Presumably they left their calling card in your luggage, 'this bag has been searched by employee number XYZ of the TSA'.

If they (the TSA in toto or said baggage checker) is unaware of the destruction of your possessions subsequent to their search, I think it unlikely that they will modify their search pattern and this will just happen to more people.