Thread: What is the worst TSA senario you ever witnessed?

I always follow the 3 oz rule for toiletries and I do carry-on only. I utilize precheck when I can so I don't get confiscations because I pay attention to restrictions.
Only "weird" thing was when I took my mom's ashes to South Africa. TSA "agent" freaked out when I told her what the powdery substance in my bag was. All they had to do was rescan and pass me thru. I presented them at ATL the next day by putting them in a small bin--nobody gave a rodent's derriere...Needless to say, a little bit of my mom resides in South Africa forever!

Forgot I had a knife in my work bag that I took to PWM a few weeks ago, it took 3 people to find where it was at.

When you say no boarding pass, do you mean no ID, boarding pass, or something totally different saying she's allowed to travel with this family? Because if you have the first two, they really shouldn't need anything else. Someone definitely screwed that one up if I'm reading this right.

If they were going out of the country, the minor needed a notarized letter from her parent(s) stating it was okay and the names of the "guardians" for this trip. We had to do it with Boss' kids.

I had to read that again but I agree with mrs767er - they must have been going out of the country. That letter of consent (something I had to do even for my own kids when I took them to Mexico without my husband) is required by a lot of countries. No letter, no travel.

Domestically, if the teen is under 18 they can go through TSA with no id at all.

I had fun twice in Egypt a few years ago. Going through Customs inbound, they thought the little Delta water was a grenade. Then on the outbound they thought I had scissors in my backpack (I saw the Xray image, and the way my headphone cord was sitting, it looked just like loopy handled medical scissors). I had to convince them it was just an anomaly and move stuff around and run it through a couple more times.

This was all after they wouldn't even let me in the terminal as I didn't have a ticket. I ended up sneaking in behind a group of Americans about my age.

Of course the worst security situation I've ever seen put me on conference calls and meetings in the board room of a major intl airport........that's as far as I'll go w/ that one!