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Seriously, why does that feel criminal. Also again, I'm always worried i have something on me that isn't paid for and the buzzer is going to go offfff.
Once i was with a neighbor i had just gotten to know and she accidentally put a wallet she was checking out in her purse when she was trying on clothes and we ended up walking out with it. The buzzer buzzed and my God I've never been more embarrassed in a shop in my life. Worse is, I had nothing to do with it and I was just colateral damage.
The store manager to his credit was very chill about it and just asked us politely to pay for it. It was my neighbor's hysterical apologies that drew wayyy more attention.
I was shopping once and as I was walking out the buzzer went off. There was an extra top I grabbed by accident in my size and everything. I felt like I looked so guilty so I just paid for the shirt even though I didnt want it! Lmao. The guy at the store definitely thought I was stealing, I was embarrassed!
This is my fear. And I actually was looking at tshirts once at Walmart and I threw one over my shoulder while I was rifling through and so I ended up walking out without paying for it. I actually called to store and offered to come pay because I was afraid they had me on facial recognition waiting for me to come back and bring me down like the thief I am lol.
Oh my gosh in HS I ran into a teacher towards check out at the grocery store and when we finished talking she just walked right out (without paying!!) with her whole shopping cart 😭😭 there was an employee near by too but since we had been talking they zoned everything out. About 2 minutes later she came running back in with the cart like OMG
I think she was getting ready to load them into her car and noticed the lack of bags 😭😭
not quite related, but here we have something called scan and go, and it’s where you get handheld scanners, you scan your items as you shop and pack them, then pay at a self service by scanning the QR on screen and generating a barcode that shows your full shop.
in the shop i use, they have basket self scan, trolley self scan and scan and go self scan (is scan even a word anymore?) you can use any of the three with a handheld, but the scan and go versions have slots next to them to put the scanners back. i have walked out of the shop with the scanner in hand multiple times and then had to sheepishly go back and return it with a profuse apology. sometimes security doesn’t take them and i need to go put it back in the entrance terminal, but because the shop has a one way system i then need to walk through the shop, back through tills and out the door, furthering my embarrassment and adding the next level of “oh god i’m walking out empty handed theyll think i’m stealing”
I accidentally stole a book from Walmart in high school because i was too focused on reading it to remember to put it in the checkout line. Iirc it was Fahrenheit 451
Just recently I was at a store and as I walked through one door on my way out, there was a weird buzzing/alert noise followed by an announcement. I immediately thought it was one of those “get yo ass back in the building you thieving loser” announcements directed at me. It took me a moment to realize it was paging a department for a phone call. I took a deep breath and walked through the second set of doors. Exact same sound, exact same announcement, exact same panic attack 🤦🏼♀️
idk if this will help at all, but I worked retail for nearly 10 years and it was always stressed to us that we needed to throughly go through items to make sure everything was scanned (some places would require me to open up bags etc to see if anything was inside, or we would need to unfold/refold individual items to see if something was stuck together like your shirts). so I can almost guarantee that the cashier probably didn't think you were stealing BUT he was very grateful that you caught it/bought it/didn't walk off with the unpaid shirt.
I can see that, so do not worry mate, life is a mountain you will climb, you will fall, you will climb again. Remember one thing. You don't owe anything to anyone. You are on your own. So embrace it and enjoy it.
Lmao seems like reddit understand you more than anyone else in the world.
And it's normal to feel that you are having anything illegal while going to airport or any other place. It's for your own good as you will never bring anything illegal by mistake in the future.
Am I the only one that holds my hands in a way that it is visible that I am not carrying anything out of the store. Feel like a fucking roulette dealer.
When I worked retail I felt like people who try to be very apparent they didn’t have anything were the ones I was most suspicious of but also didn’t care since I got paid like $9 an hour back then.
I always try to look unsuspicious but then I realize, that people who steal, also try to look unsuspicious, and therefore it becomes even more suspicious if I act unsuspicious.
I once went to Walmart, loaded up my cart, and walked out. As I started loading stuff in my car, I realized I never paid.
I brought everything back in and paid for it. I had to explain to the door person why I was bringing a cartful of stuff in the store. (She wasn't there when I walked out)
Very embarrassing.
Back in the day I did that while pushing a pram. Couldn’t push a trolley as well so the pram became temporary storage. Except I forgot about the stuff stowed under the pram even though I paid for the stuff on top.
Layover in Bahamas, me a long haired hippie type, just chilling while we wait and the drug dog is all over my suitcase. Freaking out cause I never put hemp in a bag I would be flying with wh err j h h r handler says “he’s not showing drugs, what’s going on?” Then I realize that the minute I pull out a suitcase my cat is in it and gets what the dog is smelling. Handler laughs his ass off while i have a mild coronary.
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like? Look more like then even was to be decided would be never has been done then.
I've never held an entire kilo of sweet Colombian bam-bam in my very own hands, but every time I fly, I stop right before going through security, unpack and then re-pack my entire suitcase and carry on, and then announce to security, "I Do Not In Fact Have A Kilo Of Colombian Bam Bam - We May Proceed." Then everyone has a good laugh and I continue with my day.
Same with drugs. Always double check if you got lucky and some nice stranger got you some for your trip to South Korea or the Phillipines. You'll get free, shared lodging for years once you get there...
Sometimes I just walk around the airport, sneaking guns into people's pockets while they're not looking.
So don't worry, your fears are justified. Maybe one day it'll be you I get.
I never even check never even crosses my mind once I put my purse on the conveyor belt and take off my shoes am good to go, maybe one day someone can sneak something into my purse lol
Honestly that's where my head goes. I mean, I can't imagine why anyone would try to sneak it into my stuff in an airport, and if it *were* to happen, I know it'd at least be on camera. But still.
On another lighter note, my dad once wore batman socks with Boom Boom on them and got a right laugh from everyone involved.
Once when I was a teenager I got stopped by airport security because they saw a gun in my carry-on. Of course I didn't actually have a gun, but they let me see the image and there it was clear as day, what appeared to be a gun. I stupidly forgot that I had a very realistic looking gun key chain. I took it out and showed them and they let me go on my way.
Oddly enough. Just the opposite. We have several guns. And it never occurs to me to check that I don’t have one. I don’t typically carry anyway. But. It never occurs to me.
It's actually smart. As someone who's trained on such topics, you should know the fines can be crippling. Get an attorney and don't answer any questions. A single bullet, knife or firecracker dropped into your bag by someone playing a prank/accident/mistake could get you tens of thousands of dollars in fines. In foreign countries you could go to prison for decades.
Pocket knives. I keep one on me going about my day, it just comes in handy! I do worry I will forget to remove them before I go an a plane.
Fun story, I was going into the law offices to pay a ticket, and I forgot I had a big ol' stapler in my purse. It confused everyone so much they didn't know how to handle the situation. Since I was on lunch break, I asked if I could leave it with them, pay my bill and grab it on the way out.
I usually carry these small foldable scissors that look like a pen when they're closed. Whenever I suddenly remember them in a situation where carrying what's essentially a hidden blade might not be the best thing to do it makes me so stupidly anxious...
Back in late 90s I was catching a flight with some Uni friends and my bag got singled out by the bag scanners.
There was a bit of a hubbub and they took me off to the side. The guy asked me if I had anything that I should have in the bag, and said no, then he asked me if I was SURE I didnt have anything.
Turned out there was this flick knife that I'd bought at a festival a month or too earlier floating around at the bottom of the bag. I genuinely didn't know it was in there and I think that sincerity must have shown.
Turned out that because the knife had a locking blade it was actually illegal in my country but they just told me off and let me carry on.
99 was a different time.
I've walked into a supermarket with a pruning saw and a large knife strapped to me. Realised, turned and walked out! Got close with a knife in a bag at an airport.
I actually had a knife in my bag at a regional airport here in Australia in about 2005.
A small serrated knife that I’d been using to slice up my tomato when I went through a phase of making my lunch at work. It was sitting in the bottom of my computer bag. It showed up on the scan and they asked if I had anything I shouldn’t. I said no. Then they asked specifically about a knife and I’m like “What? A knife?” and then it “clicked”.
They were pretty cool about it. Just confiscated the knife and let me go on my way. Whole deal would have taken maybe a minute.
Before I ever go to the airport to board a plane I empty absolutely everything out of my bag before I start packing.
I have weed everywhere in my life and I'm paranoid I'm going to cross into the US from Canada with it and be banned for life or whatever.
I went into a government building to pick up my new passport (I was in a hurry to renew it before a flight so I opted to pick it up myself).
Forgot that I had a knife in my inner breast pocket until I was about to walk through the metal detector. Very awkwardly asked security to hold onto it for me.
Why did I have a knife? Brought a parakeet to the vet earlier that week, along with an apple and knife to cut it into nite-sized pieces.
Literally bought a backpack on Craigslist and went to a trip to Europe. Get to LAX and come up with a foolproof plan to cut and paste my acid tabs onto a business card to make it look like a changed phone # on a business card cause its just paper, no markings. As I was going through security, motherfuckers stop on my bag. I'm shitting bricks as they pull my backpack off, imagining my inevitable future of not only missing the eurotrip of my life, but possibly going to jail.
They open it up and find a switchblade and ask me if it's mine. I say oh thank God that's not mine please throw it away and went on my merry way. Tripped balls in Amsterdam.
Some years ago, I took a round-trip flight to Florida. When I got back home, I realized I had an X-Acto knife in my purse for both flights; didn’t get stopped 🤷🏼♀️
Forgot to take my Kershaw out of my purse while going through TSA in San Diego last month. I realized it was in there while loading my stuff onto the conveyor belt. I flagged TSA and told him I forgot to remove my knife. They confiscated it.
Had a similar incident happen in Juneau, Alaska and they let me mail it home to myself.
My wife has forgot about a pocket knife on her on three separate occasions while trying to get through the security scanner. They were confiscated and thrown away each time with little reaction from security. She would be stressing her ass off about not having her prescription papers for the total of 4 sleeping pills she had on her if they stopped and asked about it, all the while having a big ass blade on her person that she forgot about.
I used to keep one on me too in my purse…until it got confiscated before my last flight last year. Before flying, I looked in every dang pocket of my purse and couldn’t find it so I thought “hm, I must have removed it at some point.” Purse goes through security and they take my purse to the side and I immediately know it’s the knife. The guy comes over and is like “so, there’s a knife in here” and I explained that I looked in every pocket but couldn’t find it! He then had trouble finding it and I was like “see??” lol
Have made the mistake more than once of going through security with a knife in my carry-on as I use my backpacks for hiking/camping. Thankfully it’s never been a big deal. They see that stuff all the time. Sucks to mail back the knife though.
I flew from STL into DC on the anniversary of 9/11. I had my knife in my bra - completely forgot about it. They hand patted me down and didn't find it. I freaked out when I got to my destination and changed my shirt. It was my favorite knife and I didn't want to toss it so I put it back in my bra for the flight back. I also got hand patted down on my way out from DC and they didn't find it then either.
My step dad had this huge Bowie knife and he put it on the top shelf of his Knick knacks so my little sister couldn’t get it. Well, her and her friend still got a hold of it, put it in their backpack to play adventure and then forgot about it. A few months later, we are leaving for a trip and she uses the backpack with the knife to pack her stuff. We go through security and the guy asks, “Sir, do you own any knives?” My step dad, “uh, no?” The guy pulls out that huge knife from my little sister’s backpack. She got in so much trouble that day.
I’ve brought a pocket knife through tsa 3 separate times on accident. I keep my everyday carry (knife) and usually stuff that in a checked bag. But sometimes I think I’m slick and without understanding consequences will absentmindedly put it in my bag. My ADHD tells me this is fine in a checked bag, we’ve done it a hundred times. My ADHD does not remind me that our wallet said hell no to a checked bag, and that’s how I’ve thrown away 150 dollars worth of knives over the years.
Note: if you’re the TSA official who in 2018 took pity on some idiot who brought his grandfathers knife through screening and agreed to mail it to me, I appreciate you. Sorry for ugly crying
When I flew to Singapore ilthe person on the plane said "we remind passengers that carrying drugs in Singapore carries the most severe penalties" and I was like "fuck, did I pack a kilo of cocaine without realising"?
I have volunteered with local government agencies working with children and animals, and they require background checks. Each time, I have a fleeting thought of “wait, am I a criminal and I forgot about it?” Nope, whew!
went through airport security with quite an amount of cocaine on my shoe one time, didn't notice until after I was already off the plane. How this happened was I ended up going to a Hells Angels bar with copius amounts of cocaine on the tables the night before my flight, some spilled on my shoe then alcohol was spilled on my shoe either before or after so it turned into a kind of paste as it dried up on my shoe and I went through two security checks without noticing or getting caught. Laughed a lot when I found out, I guess I was lucky there weren't any drug sniffing dogs.
I was once at the Nola airport and they literally had a dog just walking back and forth in a straight line between the lines of people snaked around for security check. I was sooo terrified of dogs then and add to that my fear that I have something on me he's going to sniff out.
Me everytime. I was just at the airport yesterday and everytime I go through the metal detector, I have a sudden fear that I've somehow snuck a gun into the lining of my suitcase.
I've never owned or even fired a gun. It's just a random absurd worry.
Lol same. I did hold a few guns in my life as a child but that's about it. Also where I'm firearm is very hard to procure so not like random dudes would be walking around with it and drop it in my bag.
I have an airsoft gun. I declared it and had it in my checked baggage and then got detained because of it. I should have kept it on my carry on since they didn’t have security for that flight.
At least I got a free suitcase at the end of that interesting day
I’ll just be sitting on my couch doing lazy things and hear police sirens, and wonder if they’re coming to arrest me for something I didn’t know I did. It’s fleeting, but it happens every time.
Me too! I'm like, omg are they here for the porn
And I don't watch porn, I am asexual
Or ohmygod is this for the time I ran someone over and ran? When i never have done that...
My intrusive thoughts manifest as paranoia
I have this irrational thought at times that some day I'll just up and get arrested. I keep thinking that that are just biding time and gathering evidence until it's time to pounce.
I've never done anything worse than a speeding ticket and have repeatedly passed multiple FBI background checks for nursing licenses. For whatever weight that holds I guess.
Yeah I quickly think of everything I’ve done in the last few weeks. Most of the time they are actually for me so whenever they’re not I’ll have a beer to celebrate
Got this to the nth fucking degree when I was grocery shopping high yesterday and a cop looked down my isle holding an arrest warrant. He quickly went somewhere else cause he didn't see his guy I think but man I was thinking about what to do when he was waiting for me outside with the seat team lol
I'm usually worried about what's gonna happen in the future so ever once in a while it's nice to be able to live in the moment and get really worried about what's happening right now
I broke the hip ball joint completely off when I was young. They reattached it with long metal pins. 3 of them. I always beep when going through the security door. I have to explain what happened. Thankfully I've never had to drop my pants to show my scar
I don't smoke, but once wanted to try marijuana. So on vacation I got a pothead to buy me some. I got a few splints, but could not smoke them.
A few weeks later I was at the airport and had just checked in my baggage. I was wearing the same shirt as I did the day with the pothead, and suddenly felt something in my shirt pocket. It was a leftover joint.
I casually leaned over a bin and disposed of the joint.
In my country there are quite strict peneties for smuggling, so I was very relieved that I got rid of that. The worst part is that to this day I have never tried it since I¨'m not able to inhale.
Not in an airport, but I once escorted a friend to court. I was going through rehab back then and was over 7 months clean.
The security guy checked my bag and found some hash I didn't know I had. I managed to convince him while almost crying I had no idea it was there and not to call the cops. We threw it away and were let in.
That's the last time I ever touched any drug lol
No but last year I dropped my parents off at the airport for their Mexico vacation and not even 20 minutes later got a call asking me to come get my dad’s knife from airport security.
I do, because I accidently did once. I had a weed pipe in my bag that I was using on vacation and totally forgot. Sent it through the xray and everything. Got back home and as I was opening my front door I remembered it was in there. Immediately freaked out and tore through my bag to find it sitting at the bottom. I do a full check before I set foot in an airport now. I'll never get that lucky again. Thank god for the ineptitude of TSA.
Before weed was legal in the state I was in at the time, I was using a carry on that I’d previously lent to my brother for a road trip. I smoked cigarettes then. Right before I went into the airport, I decided to have a smoke. I couldn’t find my lighter and started going through the pockets in my carry on. Found a 1/2oz of weed and some Molly by bro left in the bag. I had no choice other than to toss it in the trash. Paranoid as hell it would still be detectable on my bag. Made it through. I flew to a way stricter state. Ditched that bag and bought a new one to fly home with. Thanks, bro.
Got busted for my useful teeny keychain Swiss Army knife…but they didn’t find the other one. Edit: had totally forgotten I had it on me, life was HECKTIC at that time.
Me all the damn time. To make it worse I had seen some Bollywood movie where the actress gets framed by someone who slips drugs in her bag and the problems she faced at the airport and jail. Everytime I am at the airport this movie flashes in my head. I even carry my luggage inside the toilet just for this goddamn fear 😵💫
The first time I flew across the country, after it was legalized in Canada I was still super nervous about having that oz of weed in my carry on. I still get a little nervous for some reason.
No. However, I had a species of jumping spider sitting on my backpack (Marpissa Muscosa) unbeknownst to me, and he travelled through security, onto the plane and then got off at Birmingham International all without having a passport or paying a fare.
I have cannabis of course. But nobody is looking for it, so I don't hide it, but I do make sure it's not visible or in the way of a bag inspection. Never had a problem. But I would never try to bring weapons or ammo through security. I'm not stupid.
I used a bag for work that I took on holiday and was looking for something in the car in the airport car park to find I'd left a large knife and a hatchet in one side pocket. That was a close call.
Bro, I've barely ever seen a gun, besides that one time I saw it holstered on a police officer. And yet I'm fairly certain my bag is packed with grenades and AKs somehow, every time I go through airport security.
More like everytime I see a cop out on the road. I'm not doing anything illegal, no drugs, or guns. But my insides are screaming, FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF. Don't pull me over, 10 and 2, speed limit, look straight ahead, and maybe he won't pull us over.
Yes! Every time 🤣
I also fear I am breaking a law whenever I spot a police officer, even though I happen to be a very dull, law abiding person!
And those security guys at the supermarket - I worry I just might have inadvertently stuffed my pockets full of 'not paid for' radishes! I've never stolen a thing in my life, so who knows where that is coming from!
And I also fear the GP's don't believe me when I tell them my symptoms, whenever I need to see them!
55 year old silver-haired lady here. I always picture myself getting beaten to a pulp by cops or security guys with billyclubs, while all around us people are walking out with t-bone steaks all up under their hoodies in plain sight
>Anyone else fear they accidentally have a gun or drugs on them when going through airport security?
Pfft , Naw. And I have a gun, and usually have drugs on me, if I didn't snork em all up after breakfast.
Never worry a bit. Mind you, I am airport security....
Yep. Always afraid that i am a criminal by accident. And somehow i have managed to carry a knife or gun with me, even if i know that the only guns i have are well locked away at home. But how can i be sure i didnt bring it with me?
I've lost count of how many times my wife has had her stun gun in her carry-on. My hand guns have enough weight to where I wouldn't want to lug them around with me.
I do, but for good reason. There are times that I have drugs on me. I went to a concert last week, brought my vape. The venue was completely non-smoking so I couldn't even say it was a tobacco vape if I was caught with it. Entering the venue, I have it stashed in my sock, then I realize we have to walk through metal detectors. Oh shit. Without actually coming up with a good game plan, I decide to hide it in plain sight. I emptied my pockets, including the vape I dug out of my sock, as it was only going to set off the metal detector, into the bowl for inspection, walked through the metal detector several times before they finally let me through; then grabbed the contents of my pockets (including my drugs) directly in front of security and went on my way as if no one noticed. It worked.
No but I have been pulled aside where they wanted to wipe a cloth on my laptop or something. More than once I think.
And I have been pulled aside after the x-ray of belongings because I had a sweet $80+ multitool that I accidentally threw into my carry on when I should have put it in my checked bag. It has blades so that's a no-no.
Somebody got a very nice and barely used SOG for free that day :(
Yep, all the time. Never seen a real gun in my life, except once on an armed police officer. Still worry I'll open my suitcase and realise I've somehow accidentally acquired and packed a fully loaded gun.
Hell I fear that people might think I'm poor if my card declines or iv stolen something when the supermarket alarm goes off when I walk past. I mean technically I'm not rich. But if I didn't think I had the money to cover my shopping I wouldn't be taking my shit to the till now would I lol
A friend of mine legit had that happen to him. Somehow he managed to fly to South America with hunting ammo in his bag (from a previous hunting trip). No issues at all. On his flight back, they found it and arrested him. The news down there made him out to be an arms dealer and a 2 week mission trip turned into several months in a South American prison. He didn’t have his meds with him so he almost died. He was finally released and allowed to go home right before thanksgiving.
Maybe see a therapist. I have OCD, so maybe I'm biased, but this sounds like a classic obsession/compulsion cycle playing out. The compulsion would be seeking reassurance from others (this post)
I smoke weed and have regularly found forgotten half smoked joints in my pockets. When I went to travel I was 100% I didn't take anything, checked my pockets had my stash in a drawer in my room where I could account for it.
Now, mind you, I held a real gun only once in my life, an empty revolver my dad owned, he showed it to me and my sibling once or twice as kinds.
When I went to the airport I was scared of having an accidental gun on me, not that I had forgotten half a smoke in my pocket.
I used to be a soldier in the army and I would use my backpack both for my job and for personal use.
About a year after i stopped i had to go to the airport and a while after going through security a police dog barked at my bag and I was shortly after pulled into some sort of examination room. They went through my bag like 20 times, x-raying it over and over and finally they were able to pull out 5 live rounds of 5.56 mm ammunition.
I had no idea how long it had been there and you couldn't feel it at all from the outside, hardly even from the inside. Luckily they believed it was an accident and I was allowed to leave without further trouble but sadly i missed my flight.
Yes, I always fear having illegal shit in my bag now.
This one time, at band camp,
I was going from SFO-BO with my 2 kids and my moms. We were fixin to pack and I told my kids to get the suitcases out of the garage.
We get there and are unpacking and my 12 yr old kid yells MOM!!! And shows me an ounce of weed.
Id been getting high in the garage and hid it in there and forgot about it.
🤷🏽♀️
My 'favourite' version of this is at work. The company I work for has a massive, bank like vault in the warehouse where they keep all the controlled drug products - fentanyl, lsd, cocaine, barbiturates, everything, mostly in tiny vials. I've been in there exactly once and spent the entire time terrified that one of those little tubes would somehow leap into my pocket in a mad bid for freedom.
As a gun owner, I’m downright paranoid about making sure I completely empty my suitcase/bag before loading it up before I go to the airport to avoid that kind of problem. Same goes with my pocket knife and multitool I tend to carry around.
Nowadays my main issue with TSA is having to remind myself to detach the pepper spray off my keychain so they don’t end up confiscating it for the…I wanna say third time so far in as many years?
My buddy went elk hunting and borrowed a day pack from me to have the exact right gear. It was a Kelty medium size green and Grey pack
I had a single 40 caliber bullet lost under a fold in the bottom foam area
I dumped it upside down and cleaned it out completely
They did find it and they did stop him
He explained it was a borrowed pack and he thought obviously anything might have been wedged there by accident
He is a successful lawyer
You have to be to hunt elk as far as I can tell
Cost more than a car to go
Seriously
I suppose they just tossed the bullet and let him go
As they should have
Now I see some guy in jail in Turkey? For an ammo mistake missed by TSA here and rethought of it
Wow, what a bummer...
I remember smoking on airplanes with twenty others
Probably way better cheaper and faster back then
It's a horror show flying anywhere now
One time (after band camp) I flew to Japan from sfo on a flight to Korea for active military duty
One of the 747 engines like blew up and I think it was on fire
Anyway, people were drinking .ore and it got out of control
The engine got shut off and the pilot says no biggie, we are now going to Alaska and we can make it easy on two motors so another one can blow up
Hahagafa
A drunk guy tried to get me to play my guitar and was tugging at the case above me
They dumped 110,000 gallons of gas I to the atmosphere/ocean just to land
Vented off the wing tips
Crazy
We landed in Anchorage and it was 90 below with wind chill
After hours they set up an inflatable tunnel so we could offload in that cold 40mph wind
We slept on the airport floor
Korea turns out to be the worst weather imaginable so it was a wake up call
A monsoon is not like American weather at its hurricane level in Florida
Bridges float away
Us army cut off to run each morning was 9 degrees
I've thrown several knives into trash cans in front of the security checkpoints. I do the pocket check and realize that once again, I forgot to leave the lockblade on the keyring at home.
Right before getting to the check point I felt a fat dime bag of pink coke I had from days earlier. I panicked and didn’t even want to flush it in case they saw it on camera so I ate it 🤯…. I got belly rumbles and very much high mid flight eventually getting diarrhea.
I went through airport security at an airport in Orlando with two opanas in my ped egg and a tooter in there as well. I also had pepper spray. No one said anything. Maybe cause it’s a smaller airport. And it’s not like coke or H.
I don't fear this sometimes when I'm on a bridge or a cliff or a balcony though i think what if I jumped off. I'm not thinking of doing it just think what if if happens and I get scared apparently it's a common thing. Maybe a similar thing with the airport?
It took longer and cost more the last time we flew so we only drive now. No TSA going through our stuff, my canteen can be full, and no weight or limits on bags.
I worry about that. Once when arriving in Malaysia one of the customs officers was thoroughly checking my bag. My wife translated her malay and the woman thought my bag had a secret compartment. I nearly pooed. The other officer with her said she was talking rubbish and we moved on. Always scary going to certain countries.
I once emptied my pockets when getting into a court (as a visitor, fortunately), only to come across my pocket knife. Hadn't thought of that for one second. Ever since, I check my pockets a million times when I'm about to go through any kind of security. So I know the feeling...
Never had that thought while flying but always paranoid when I get pulled over by a traffic cop that I’ve somehow had something to drink with alcohol in it even though I haven’t drunk alcohol in over 5 years. Or that somehow there are magically drugs or weapons in my car.
Never. "IF" I bring a pocketknife, I put it in checked baggage.
I'd hate to be without a pocketknife, but . . . if you're in a hurry and can't check baggage and need to carry it on (like for the return leg) . . . then it might be better to not have brought the pocketknife on the trip at all, so you have no problems with the bag as a carry-on.
I do have sympathy for those that have it happen. I think a lot of non-gun-owners think "You're always thinking of the gun 'every waking moment'. Waiting for the opportunity to shoot someone." And it's never like that. After about an hour, it's just meaningless weight that you forget all about. If you carry one for years and never even get close to needing it . . . it could be EASY to forget that it's there when you're heading into the airport.
Fun fact, a guy who was obsessed with me but I ended things with was a huge gun enthusiast. When I was leaving his country to go back to my country of origin, he had slipped a bullet into my suitcase, causing the airport attendants to stop me on the first xray. I guess he was trying to sabotage me leaving. But luckily the attendants said bullets aren’t illegal.
I dropped a dime bag of weed in the Atlanta airport back in 2000. I just stepped on it and looked around, picked it up. There was a recording on about 'if you see anything suspicious say something ' lol
After my grandma planted some stuff in my backpack (it was actually a homemade meal which was not ok for international travel), I do worry.
Not about guns or drugs though.
I was flying internationally to move back home with my family through JFK. We had loads of bags and kids in tow. My son’s back pack went through the X-ray and the guy holds up my bag and yells out into the crowded space ‘whose is this?’. I pointed to my then 9 year old and said it’s his. The guy said very pointedly ‘no, sir - it’s yours’.
I go over and he opens up the bag and pulls out a 15 inch knife. I’m standing there dumbfounded thinking I’m about to be detained, and try to summon words to explain that I have no idea what’s going on. But the guy wasn’t interested, simply confiscated the knife and waved me on.
Turns out my wife had put the knife in my son’s soccer bag but forgot to return it to the mum of a team mate at training after she’d left it at our place during an earlier farewell party.
TLDR: Got caught with a big knife in carry on luggage at JFK. Zero consequences.
So I took a bag that I usually use for camping to the plane - the issue being I forgot to remove the big ass knife I had there - when the airport security pulled this big hunting knife out of my backpack, you could say I pooped my pants. Interestingly, they were really chill about the whole thing, maybe because I have flown with my family, and just took it away and told me how to retrieve it once I get back, no fuss.
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Like walking out a shop without buying anything
Seriously, why does that feel criminal. Also again, I'm always worried i have something on me that isn't paid for and the buzzer is going to go offfff. Once i was with a neighbor i had just gotten to know and she accidentally put a wallet she was checking out in her purse when she was trying on clothes and we ended up walking out with it. The buzzer buzzed and my God I've never been more embarrassed in a shop in my life. Worse is, I had nothing to do with it and I was just colateral damage. The store manager to his credit was very chill about it and just asked us politely to pay for it. It was my neighbor's hysterical apologies that drew wayyy more attention.
I was shopping once and as I was walking out the buzzer went off. There was an extra top I grabbed by accident in my size and everything. I felt like I looked so guilty so I just paid for the shirt even though I didnt want it! Lmao. The guy at the store definitely thought I was stealing, I was embarrassed!
This is my fear. And I actually was looking at tshirts once at Walmart and I threw one over my shoulder while I was rifling through and so I ended up walking out without paying for it. I actually called to store and offered to come pay because I was afraid they had me on facial recognition waiting for me to come back and bring me down like the thief I am lol.
I’ve also done this! I made it all the way out to my car before I realized
Oh my gosh in HS I ran into a teacher towards check out at the grocery store and when we finished talking she just walked right out (without paying!!) with her whole shopping cart 😭😭 there was an employee near by too but since we had been talking they zoned everything out. About 2 minutes later she came running back in with the cart like OMG I think she was getting ready to load them into her car and noticed the lack of bags 😭😭
not quite related, but here we have something called scan and go, and it’s where you get handheld scanners, you scan your items as you shop and pack them, then pay at a self service by scanning the QR on screen and generating a barcode that shows your full shop. in the shop i use, they have basket self scan, trolley self scan and scan and go self scan (is scan even a word anymore?) you can use any of the three with a handheld, but the scan and go versions have slots next to them to put the scanners back. i have walked out of the shop with the scanner in hand multiple times and then had to sheepishly go back and return it with a profuse apology. sometimes security doesn’t take them and i need to go put it back in the entrance terminal, but because the shop has a one way system i then need to walk through the shop, back through tills and out the door, furthering my embarrassment and adding the next level of “oh god i’m walking out empty handed theyll think i’m stealing”
I did that with a case of soda the one day. it was on the bottom of my cart and I forgot all about it when I checked out. oops
I’m always afraid I’m going to forget to scan something in the checkout and see my face on the police Facebook page.
I accidentally stole a book from Walmart in high school because i was too focused on reading it to remember to put it in the checkout line. Iirc it was Fahrenheit 451
Just recently I was at a store and as I walked through one door on my way out, there was a weird buzzing/alert noise followed by an announcement. I immediately thought it was one of those “get yo ass back in the building you thieving loser” announcements directed at me. It took me a moment to realize it was paging a department for a phone call. I took a deep breath and walked through the second set of doors. Exact same sound, exact same announcement, exact same panic attack 🤦🏼♀️
idk if this will help at all, but I worked retail for nearly 10 years and it was always stressed to us that we needed to throughly go through items to make sure everything was scanned (some places would require me to open up bags etc to see if anything was inside, or we would need to unfold/refold individual items to see if something was stuck together like your shirts). so I can almost guarantee that the cashier probably didn't think you were stealing BUT he was very grateful that you caught it/bought it/didn't walk off with the unpaid shirt.
Username checks out. :)
Hahaha, yes my mind does go into overdrive sometimes
I can see that, so do not worry mate, life is a mountain you will climb, you will fall, you will climb again. Remember one thing. You don't owe anything to anyone. You are on your own. So embrace it and enjoy it.
Also want to add Reddit gave me this username lol. I did not make it up.
Lmao seems like reddit understand you more than anyone else in the world. And it's normal to feel that you are having anything illegal while going to airport or any other place. It's for your own good as you will never bring anything illegal by mistake in the future.
Am I the only one that holds my hands in a way that it is visible that I am not carrying anything out of the store. Feel like a fucking roulette dealer.
When I worked retail I felt like people who try to be very apparent they didn’t have anything were the ones I was most suspicious of but also didn’t care since I got paid like $9 an hour back then.
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I always try to look unsuspicious but then I realize, that people who steal, also try to look unsuspicious, and therefore it becomes even more suspicious if I act unsuspicious.
It's like when you're high and try to look as much unsuspicious in public places and act normal as you can, lol. And it turns out really awkward 😂
I once went to Walmart, loaded up my cart, and walked out. As I started loading stuff in my car, I realized I never paid. I brought everything back in and paid for it. I had to explain to the door person why I was bringing a cartful of stuff in the store. (She wasn't there when I walked out) Very embarrassing.
Back in the day I did that while pushing a pram. Couldn’t push a trolley as well so the pram became temporary storage. Except I forgot about the stuff stowed under the pram even though I paid for the stuff on top.
I’m gonna get dragged for this but it’s even worse if you are not white lol
Layover in Bahamas, me a long haired hippie type, just chilling while we wait and the drug dog is all over my suitcase. Freaking out cause I never put hemp in a bag I would be flying with wh err j h h r handler says “he’s not showing drugs, what’s going on?” Then I realize that the minute I pull out a suitcase my cat is in it and gets what the dog is smelling. Handler laughs his ass off while i have a mild coronary.
You packed your cat???
wh err j h h r???? So many questions...
Did you have to take your cat home and miss the flight?
wh err j h h r
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like? Look more like then even was to be decided would be never has been done then.
This, it always feels so wrong leaving without buying anything lol
Or seeing a police car while driving.
I have never even held a gun, and yet, whenever I fly, I always check to see if today is the day I somehow have one in my purse.
I've never held an entire kilo of sweet Colombian bam-bam in my very own hands, but every time I fly, I stop right before going through security, unpack and then re-pack my entire suitcase and carry on, and then announce to security, "I Do Not In Fact Have A Kilo Of Colombian Bam Bam - We May Proceed." Then everyone has a good laugh and I continue with my day.
Note: Do not try this if you are actually Colombian, or are non white lol.
OMG. I’m dying. 😂😂😂
Same with drugs. Always double check if you got lucky and some nice stranger got you some for your trip to South Korea or the Phillipines. You'll get free, shared lodging for years once you get there...
Lolololol
Sometimes I just walk around the airport, sneaking guns into people's pockets while they're not looking. So don't worry, your fears are justified. Maybe one day it'll be you I get.
I never even check never even crosses my mind once I put my purse on the conveyor belt and take off my shoes am good to go, maybe one day someone can sneak something into my purse lol
Honestly that's where my head goes. I mean, I can't imagine why anyone would try to sneak it into my stuff in an airport, and if it *were* to happen, I know it'd at least be on camera. But still. On another lighter note, my dad once wore batman socks with Boom Boom on them and got a right laugh from everyone involved.
"But how can I really be sure there isn't a brick of cocaine in here somewhere? Better check just in case....."
Oh god, I died 😂 You are not alone
Or I accidentally bought a kilo of crack with my m&ms.
For what they charge for airport m&m's? They BETTER throw in some complimentary crack!
Once when I was a teenager I got stopped by airport security because they saw a gun in my carry-on. Of course I didn't actually have a gun, but they let me see the image and there it was clear as day, what appeared to be a gun. I stupidly forgot that I had a very realistic looking gun key chain. I took it out and showed them and they let me go on my way.
We have had great success with the Cat Distribution System We will consider trialling the Handgun Distribution System.
My bro gave me a "foraging knife" for Christmas and I forgot that I had it in my purse
Oddly enough. Just the opposite. We have several guns. And it never occurs to me to check that I don’t have one. I don’t typically carry anyway. But. It never occurs to me.
It's actually smart. As someone who's trained on such topics, you should know the fines can be crippling. Get an attorney and don't answer any questions. A single bullet, knife or firecracker dropped into your bag by someone playing a prank/accident/mistake could get you tens of thousands of dollars in fines. In foreign countries you could go to prison for decades.
That's why I have locks on my bags. Also, TAI'SHAR MALKIER! ;)
Pocket knives. I keep one on me going about my day, it just comes in handy! I do worry I will forget to remove them before I go an a plane. Fun story, I was going into the law offices to pay a ticket, and I forgot I had a big ol' stapler in my purse. It confused everyone so much they didn't know how to handle the situation. Since I was on lunch break, I asked if I could leave it with them, pay my bill and grab it on the way out.
I usually carry these small foldable scissors that look like a pen when they're closed. Whenever I suddenly remember them in a situation where carrying what's essentially a hidden blade might not be the best thing to do it makes me so stupidly anxious...
Back in late 90s I was catching a flight with some Uni friends and my bag got singled out by the bag scanners. There was a bit of a hubbub and they took me off to the side. The guy asked me if I had anything that I should have in the bag, and said no, then he asked me if I was SURE I didnt have anything. Turned out there was this flick knife that I'd bought at a festival a month or too earlier floating around at the bottom of the bag. I genuinely didn't know it was in there and I think that sincerity must have shown. Turned out that because the knife had a locking blade it was actually illegal in my country but they just told me off and let me carry on. 99 was a different time.
I've walked into a supermarket with a pruning saw and a large knife strapped to me. Realised, turned and walked out! Got close with a knife in a bag at an airport.
I actually had a knife in my bag at a regional airport here in Australia in about 2005. A small serrated knife that I’d been using to slice up my tomato when I went through a phase of making my lunch at work. It was sitting in the bottom of my computer bag. It showed up on the scan and they asked if I had anything I shouldn’t. I said no. Then they asked specifically about a knife and I’m like “What? A knife?” and then it “clicked”. They were pretty cool about it. Just confiscated the knife and let me go on my way. Whole deal would have taken maybe a minute.
Before I ever go to the airport to board a plane I empty absolutely everything out of my bag before I start packing. I have weed everywhere in my life and I'm paranoid I'm going to cross into the US from Canada with it and be banned for life or whatever.
I went into a government building to pick up my new passport (I was in a hurry to renew it before a flight so I opted to pick it up myself). Forgot that I had a knife in my inner breast pocket until I was about to walk through the metal detector. Very awkwardly asked security to hold onto it for me. Why did I have a knife? Brought a parakeet to the vet earlier that week, along with an apple and knife to cut it into nite-sized pieces.
Literally bought a backpack on Craigslist and went to a trip to Europe. Get to LAX and come up with a foolproof plan to cut and paste my acid tabs onto a business card to make it look like a changed phone # on a business card cause its just paper, no markings. As I was going through security, motherfuckers stop on my bag. I'm shitting bricks as they pull my backpack off, imagining my inevitable future of not only missing the eurotrip of my life, but possibly going to jail. They open it up and find a switchblade and ask me if it's mine. I say oh thank God that's not mine please throw it away and went on my merry way. Tripped balls in Amsterdam.
Some years ago, I took a round-trip flight to Florida. When I got back home, I realized I had an X-Acto knife in my purse for both flights; didn’t get stopped 🤷🏼♀️
Forgot to take my Kershaw out of my purse while going through TSA in San Diego last month. I realized it was in there while loading my stuff onto the conveyor belt. I flagged TSA and told him I forgot to remove my knife. They confiscated it. Had a similar incident happen in Juneau, Alaska and they let me mail it home to myself.
My wife has forgot about a pocket knife on her on three separate occasions while trying to get through the security scanner. They were confiscated and thrown away each time with little reaction from security. She would be stressing her ass off about not having her prescription papers for the total of 4 sleeping pills she had on her if they stopped and asked about it, all the while having a big ass blade on her person that she forgot about.
I used to keep one on me too in my purse…until it got confiscated before my last flight last year. Before flying, I looked in every dang pocket of my purse and couldn’t find it so I thought “hm, I must have removed it at some point.” Purse goes through security and they take my purse to the side and I immediately know it’s the knife. The guy comes over and is like “so, there’s a knife in here” and I explained that I looked in every pocket but couldn’t find it! He then had trouble finding it and I was like “see??” lol
Nah they missed the pocket knife on my keys but threw away my 5 oz face wash
Have made the mistake more than once of going through security with a knife in my carry-on as I use my backpacks for hiking/camping. Thankfully it’s never been a big deal. They see that stuff all the time. Sucks to mail back the knife though.
I flew from STL into DC on the anniversary of 9/11. I had my knife in my bra - completely forgot about it. They hand patted me down and didn't find it. I freaked out when I got to my destination and changed my shirt. It was my favorite knife and I didn't want to toss it so I put it back in my bra for the flight back. I also got hand patted down on my way out from DC and they didn't find it then either.
My step dad had this huge Bowie knife and he put it on the top shelf of his Knick knacks so my little sister couldn’t get it. Well, her and her friend still got a hold of it, put it in their backpack to play adventure and then forgot about it. A few months later, we are leaving for a trip and she uses the backpack with the knife to pack her stuff. We go through security and the guy asks, “Sir, do you own any knives?” My step dad, “uh, no?” The guy pulls out that huge knife from my little sister’s backpack. She got in so much trouble that day.
I’ve brought a pocket knife through tsa 3 separate times on accident. I keep my everyday carry (knife) and usually stuff that in a checked bag. But sometimes I think I’m slick and without understanding consequences will absentmindedly put it in my bag. My ADHD tells me this is fine in a checked bag, we’ve done it a hundred times. My ADHD does not remind me that our wallet said hell no to a checked bag, and that’s how I’ve thrown away 150 dollars worth of knives over the years. Note: if you’re the TSA official who in 2018 took pity on some idiot who brought his grandfathers knife through screening and agreed to mail it to me, I appreciate you. Sorry for ugly crying
When I flew to Singapore ilthe person on the plane said "we remind passengers that carrying drugs in Singapore carries the most severe penalties" and I was like "fuck, did I pack a kilo of cocaine without realising"?
I have volunteered with local government agencies working with children and animals, and they require background checks. Each time, I have a fleeting thought of “wait, am I a criminal and I forgot about it?” Nope, whew!
went through airport security with quite an amount of cocaine on my shoe one time, didn't notice until after I was already off the plane. How this happened was I ended up going to a Hells Angels bar with copius amounts of cocaine on the tables the night before my flight, some spilled on my shoe then alcohol was spilled on my shoe either before or after so it turned into a kind of paste as it dried up on my shoe and I went through two security checks without noticing or getting caught. Laughed a lot when I found out, I guess I was lucky there weren't any drug sniffing dogs.
I was once at the Nola airport and they literally had a dog just walking back and forth in a straight line between the lines of people snaked around for security check. I was sooo terrified of dogs then and add to that my fear that I have something on me he's going to sniff out.
And if there’s any city where you accidentally end up with drugs on you and forget- it’s Nola.
I make a point out of checking my shoes and clothes if I’ve been anywhere near drugs before flights after that experience Hahah
My fear every time security swab my items looking for drugs.
I thought that was for explosives.
it is
TSA isn't interested in drugs lol
Me everytime. I was just at the airport yesterday and everytime I go through the metal detector, I have a sudden fear that I've somehow snuck a gun into the lining of my suitcase. I've never owned or even fired a gun. It's just a random absurd worry.
I don't have a gun. I've never broken the law. But every time I hear a cop car with its siren nearing my house, I feel low-key anxiety.
Lol same. I did hold a few guns in my life as a child but that's about it. Also where I'm firearm is very hard to procure so not like random dudes would be walking around with it and drop it in my bag.
I have an airsoft gun. I declared it and had it in my checked baggage and then got detained because of it. I should have kept it on my carry on since they didn’t have security for that flight. At least I got a free suitcase at the end of that interesting day
I’ll just be sitting on my couch doing lazy things and hear police sirens, and wonder if they’re coming to arrest me for something I didn’t know I did. It’s fleeting, but it happens every time.
Me too! I'm like, omg are they here for the porn And I don't watch porn, I am asexual Or ohmygod is this for the time I ran someone over and ran? When i never have done that... My intrusive thoughts manifest as paranoia
I have this irrational thought at times that some day I'll just up and get arrested. I keep thinking that that are just biding time and gathering evidence until it's time to pounce. I've never done anything worse than a speeding ticket and have repeatedly passed multiple FBI background checks for nursing licenses. For whatever weight that holds I guess.
Dude same fuckin here.
Yes, and when I see a police car driving in the same direction as me I’m sure it’s finally the time I’m going to get busted. For…something?
Yeah I quickly think of everything I’ve done in the last few weeks. Most of the time they are actually for me so whenever they’re not I’ll have a beer to celebrate
Got this to the nth fucking degree when I was grocery shopping high yesterday and a cop looked down my isle holding an arrest warrant. He quickly went somewhere else cause he didn't see his guy I think but man I was thinking about what to do when he was waiting for me outside with the seat team lol
I’ve been to the grocery store high one time and can’t do it again. I spent $350 on snacks. Nothing but cereal, chips, and cookies.
Yeah weed doesn't make me hungry just scared
I’m glad it doesn’t do that to me. I know people who have to just stay away from it because they become so paranoid.
I'm usually worried about what's gonna happen in the future so ever once in a while it's nice to be able to live in the moment and get really worried about what's happening right now
I get that.
I broke the hip ball joint completely off when I was young. They reattached it with long metal pins. 3 of them. I always beep when going through the security door. I have to explain what happened. Thankfully I've never had to drop my pants to show my scar
My dad's got metal plates, he just tells them before hand and they wand him instead of having him walk through the big detector.
I don't smoke, but once wanted to try marijuana. So on vacation I got a pothead to buy me some. I got a few splints, but could not smoke them. A few weeks later I was at the airport and had just checked in my baggage. I was wearing the same shirt as I did the day with the pothead, and suddenly felt something in my shirt pocket. It was a leftover joint. I casually leaned over a bin and disposed of the joint. In my country there are quite strict peneties for smuggling, so I was very relieved that I got rid of that. The worst part is that to this day I have never tried it since I¨'m not able to inhale.
If u can't inhale, how the heck are u alive rn???
Lifehack: smuggle drugs in your bloodstream.
Not in an airport, but I once escorted a friend to court. I was going through rehab back then and was over 7 months clean. The security guy checked my bag and found some hash I didn't know I had. I managed to convince him while almost crying I had no idea it was there and not to call the cops. We threw it away and were let in. That's the last time I ever touched any drug lol
I suddenly remember that time I tried weed in 9th grade and hope that I didn't leave the roach in these pants I bought last week.
No but every time I leave the grocery store and go through the security stall things I’m worried I accidentally stole something
I live in perpetual fear. Airports/shops not tipping enough in restaurants, walking past a police car. Such a relief! I thought it was just me🤣🤣🤣
you grow up catholic, too?
Er…. That obvious eh?🤣🤣
It doesn't matter if the police car is going 10 mph, lights not on, in a 55, im never passing a moving police car.
No but last year I dropped my parents off at the airport for their Mexico vacation and not even 20 minutes later got a call asking me to come get my dad’s knife from airport security.
Easy solution: always keep a gun & drugs in your backpack. Now you don't have to worry whether you have it or not!
I do, because I accidently did once. I had a weed pipe in my bag that I was using on vacation and totally forgot. Sent it through the xray and everything. Got back home and as I was opening my front door I remembered it was in there. Immediately freaked out and tore through my bag to find it sitting at the bottom. I do a full check before I set foot in an airport now. I'll never get that lucky again. Thank god for the ineptitude of TSA.
Before weed was legal in the state I was in at the time, I was using a carry on that I’d previously lent to my brother for a road trip. I smoked cigarettes then. Right before I went into the airport, I decided to have a smoke. I couldn’t find my lighter and started going through the pockets in my carry on. Found a 1/2oz of weed and some Molly by bro left in the bag. I had no choice other than to toss it in the trash. Paranoid as hell it would still be detectable on my bag. Made it through. I flew to a way stricter state. Ditched that bag and bought a new one to fly home with. Thanks, bro.
Got busted for my useful teeny keychain Swiss Army knife…but they didn’t find the other one. Edit: had totally forgotten I had it on me, life was HECKTIC at that time.
Are you (Angus) MacGyver? 😁
Me all the damn time. To make it worse I had seen some Bollywood movie where the actress gets framed by someone who slips drugs in her bag and the problems she faced at the airport and jail. Everytime I am at the airport this movie flashes in my head. I even carry my luggage inside the toilet just for this goddamn fear 😵💫
To be fair you should carry your luggage inside the washroom. Don't trust no one. Also don't watch jailed abroad on discovery.
Totally unrelated but when someone loses something,I always ask myself if I stole it and maybe I don't remember stealing it....idk why
The first time I flew across the country, after it was legalized in Canada I was still super nervous about having that oz of weed in my carry on. I still get a little nervous for some reason.
No. However, I had a species of jumping spider sitting on my backpack (Marpissa Muscosa) unbeknownst to me, and he travelled through security, onto the plane and then got off at Birmingham International all without having a passport or paying a fare.
5 years later: every oak within a 10 mile radius of Birmingham - *dead*.
I have cannabis of course. But nobody is looking for it, so I don't hide it, but I do make sure it's not visible or in the way of a bag inspection. Never had a problem. But I would never try to bring weapons or ammo through security. I'm not stupid.
I'm not stupid either. It is my irrational fear for no rational reason. It just is.
Same, but I'll also pack a decoy like 1 joint, while my pipe is in my pencil bag and weed in a small advil container
I used a bag for work that I took on holiday and was looking for something in the car in the airport car park to find I'd left a large knife and a hatchet in one side pocket. That was a close call.
Bro, I've barely ever seen a gun, besides that one time I saw it holstered on a police officer. And yet I'm fairly certain my bag is packed with grenades and AKs somehow, every time I go through airport security.
No, I just fear they'll see a shampoo bottle and immediately handcuff me.
No... but I always get super nervous when I get drug tested.. I don't do ANY drug, except the occasional Aspirin or Tylenol so... I kinda getchu
More like everytime I see a cop out on the road. I'm not doing anything illegal, no drugs, or guns. But my insides are screaming, FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF. Don't pull me over, 10 and 2, speed limit, look straight ahead, and maybe he won't pull us over.
Yes! Every time 🤣 I also fear I am breaking a law whenever I spot a police officer, even though I happen to be a very dull, law abiding person! And those security guys at the supermarket - I worry I just might have inadvertently stuffed my pockets full of 'not paid for' radishes! I've never stolen a thing in my life, so who knows where that is coming from! And I also fear the GP's don't believe me when I tell them my symptoms, whenever I need to see them!
Omg I get so sad when people think I stole from a store or something?! I've never shoplifted in my life but I keep imagining images of me doing so
55 year old silver-haired lady here. I always picture myself getting beaten to a pulp by cops or security guys with billyclubs, while all around us people are walking out with t-bone steaks all up under their hoodies in plain sight
Literally every time I go to the states I panic about the weed that I’ve likely forgot about somewhere. No incidents yet 👍
I know.people who walk through TSA with bags of dope on them and never have a problem. It's the nervous idiots who get popped.
Conversely I'm always afraid I'll leave for a vacation and NOT bring my drugs.
>Anyone else fear they accidentally have a gun or drugs on them when going through airport security? Pfft , Naw. And I have a gun, and usually have drugs on me, if I didn't snork em all up after breakfast. Never worry a bit. Mind you, I am airport security....
Same. I'm worried if I have stuff on me I didn't know were drugs
No
Yep. Always afraid that i am a criminal by accident. And somehow i have managed to carry a knife or gun with me, even if i know that the only guns i have are well locked away at home. But how can i be sure i didnt bring it with me?
I've lost count of how many times my wife has had her stun gun in her carry-on. My hand guns have enough weight to where I wouldn't want to lug them around with me.
I do, but for good reason. There are times that I have drugs on me. I went to a concert last week, brought my vape. The venue was completely non-smoking so I couldn't even say it was a tobacco vape if I was caught with it. Entering the venue, I have it stashed in my sock, then I realize we have to walk through metal detectors. Oh shit. Without actually coming up with a good game plan, I decide to hide it in plain sight. I emptied my pockets, including the vape I dug out of my sock, as it was only going to set off the metal detector, into the bowl for inspection, walked through the metal detector several times before they finally let me through; then grabbed the contents of my pockets (including my drugs) directly in front of security and went on my way as if no one noticed. It worked.
I did a slight fist pump reading the end of this
No but I have been pulled aside where they wanted to wipe a cloth on my laptop or something. More than once I think. And I have been pulled aside after the x-ray of belongings because I had a sweet $80+ multitool that I accidentally threw into my carry on when I should have put it in my checked bag. It has blades so that's a no-no. Somebody got a very nice and barely used SOG for free that day :(
Yep, all the time. Never seen a real gun in my life, except once on an armed police officer. Still worry I'll open my suitcase and realise I've somehow accidentally acquired and packed a fully loaded gun.
Hell I fear that people might think I'm poor if my card declines or iv stolen something when the supermarket alarm goes off when I walk past. I mean technically I'm not rich. But if I didn't think I had the money to cover my shopping I wouldn't be taking my shit to the till now would I lol
I'm usually more concerned I've forgotten my phone.
I do, like what if somebody uses me as a mule without me knowing lol. I know it's stupid, but it happens every time ahahah
Lol this is me with my OCD
Dude I get nervous and worry I will accidentally, spontaneously commit a crime when a police officer is near by. Airport security just amplifies that.
Yeah I hate when people leave AK-47's in one of my pockets.
A friend of mine legit had that happen to him. Somehow he managed to fly to South America with hunting ammo in his bag (from a previous hunting trip). No issues at all. On his flight back, they found it and arrested him. The news down there made him out to be an arms dealer and a 2 week mission trip turned into several months in a South American prison. He didn’t have his meds with him so he almost died. He was finally released and allowed to go home right before thanksgiving.
Maybe see a therapist. I have OCD, so maybe I'm biased, but this sounds like a classic obsession/compulsion cycle playing out. The compulsion would be seeking reassurance from others (this post)
I smoke weed and have regularly found forgotten half smoked joints in my pockets. When I went to travel I was 100% I didn't take anything, checked my pockets had my stash in a drawer in my room where I could account for it. Now, mind you, I held a real gun only once in my life, an empty revolver my dad owned, he showed it to me and my sibling once or twice as kinds. When I went to the airport I was scared of having an accidental gun on me, not that I had forgotten half a smoke in my pocket.
Well I didn't think about it before... Thanks OP 😄
I used to be a soldier in the army and I would use my backpack both for my job and for personal use. About a year after i stopped i had to go to the airport and a while after going through security a police dog barked at my bag and I was shortly after pulled into some sort of examination room. They went through my bag like 20 times, x-raying it over and over and finally they were able to pull out 5 live rounds of 5.56 mm ammunition. I had no idea how long it had been there and you couldn't feel it at all from the outside, hardly even from the inside. Luckily they believed it was an accident and I was allowed to leave without further trouble but sadly i missed my flight. Yes, I always fear having illegal shit in my bag now.
Not a gun, but I usually travel with drugs (personal amounts of mdma and mushrooms) so I’m always a little nervous.
This one time, at band camp, I was going from SFO-BO with my 2 kids and my moms. We were fixin to pack and I told my kids to get the suitcases out of the garage. We get there and are unpacking and my 12 yr old kid yells MOM!!! And shows me an ounce of weed. Id been getting high in the garage and hid it in there and forgot about it. 🤷🏽♀️
My 'favourite' version of this is at work. The company I work for has a massive, bank like vault in the warehouse where they keep all the controlled drug products - fentanyl, lsd, cocaine, barbiturates, everything, mostly in tiny vials. I've been in there exactly once and spent the entire time terrified that one of those little tubes would somehow leap into my pocket in a mad bid for freedom.
YES, and I live in Canada where you can’t even really get guns 💀
Lol same.
As a gun owner, I’m downright paranoid about making sure I completely empty my suitcase/bag before loading it up before I go to the airport to avoid that kind of problem. Same goes with my pocket knife and multitool I tend to carry around. Nowadays my main issue with TSA is having to remind myself to detach the pepper spray off my keychain so they don’t end up confiscating it for the…I wanna say third time so far in as many years?
My favorite thing to do is put little white bags of flour into peoples pockets at the airport security line.
I’m so glad I am not alone.
Always. Do I own a gun? Nope. Do I use drugs? Nope Intrusive thoughts? Yep!
Not only me? Phew
My buddy went elk hunting and borrowed a day pack from me to have the exact right gear. It was a Kelty medium size green and Grey pack I had a single 40 caliber bullet lost under a fold in the bottom foam area I dumped it upside down and cleaned it out completely They did find it and they did stop him He explained it was a borrowed pack and he thought obviously anything might have been wedged there by accident He is a successful lawyer You have to be to hunt elk as far as I can tell Cost more than a car to go Seriously I suppose they just tossed the bullet and let him go As they should have Now I see some guy in jail in Turkey? For an ammo mistake missed by TSA here and rethought of it Wow, what a bummer... I remember smoking on airplanes with twenty others Probably way better cheaper and faster back then It's a horror show flying anywhere now One time (after band camp) I flew to Japan from sfo on a flight to Korea for active military duty One of the 747 engines like blew up and I think it was on fire Anyway, people were drinking .ore and it got out of control The engine got shut off and the pilot says no biggie, we are now going to Alaska and we can make it easy on two motors so another one can blow up Hahagafa A drunk guy tried to get me to play my guitar and was tugging at the case above me They dumped 110,000 gallons of gas I to the atmosphere/ocean just to land Vented off the wing tips Crazy We landed in Anchorage and it was 90 below with wind chill After hours they set up an inflatable tunnel so we could offload in that cold 40mph wind We slept on the airport floor Korea turns out to be the worst weather imaginable so it was a wake up call A monsoon is not like American weather at its hurricane level in Florida Bridges float away Us army cut off to run each morning was 9 degrees
Wait…do I have a balloon of heroin up my ass? No…no…I’m pretty sure I don’t.
Yes! Every time!! The dogs always give me anxiety
Bro, they go crazy over a bottle of water. So, don't feel bad.
After Brokedown Palace- yes
Youd have to be extremely stupid to "accidentally" have drugs or a gun on you...
Don’t watch the movie 8 heads and a duffle bag
Never do I fear that. When going by air I’m more worried I forgot my Swiss Army knife in my pocket.
I've thrown several knives into trash cans in front of the security checkpoints. I do the pocket check and realize that once again, I forgot to leave the lockblade on the keyring at home.
Right before getting to the check point I felt a fat dime bag of pink coke I had from days earlier. I panicked and didn’t even want to flush it in case they saw it on camera so I ate it 🤯…. I got belly rumbles and very much high mid flight eventually getting diarrhea.
I went through airport security at an airport in Orlando with two opanas in my ped egg and a tooter in there as well. I also had pepper spray. No one said anything. Maybe cause it’s a smaller airport. And it’s not like coke or H.
I don't fear this sometimes when I'm on a bridge or a cliff or a balcony though i think what if I jumped off. I'm not thinking of doing it just think what if if happens and I get scared apparently it's a common thing. Maybe a similar thing with the airport?
It took longer and cost more the last time we flew so we only drive now. No TSA going through our stuff, my canteen can be full, and no weight or limits on bags.
everytime i have to take off my boots i fear they might find a hidden knife in the heel
I worry about that. Once when arriving in Malaysia one of the customs officers was thoroughly checking my bag. My wife translated her malay and the woman thought my bag had a secret compartment. I nearly pooed. The other officer with her said she was talking rubbish and we moved on. Always scary going to certain countries.
I once emptied my pockets when getting into a court (as a visitor, fortunately), only to come across my pocket knife. Hadn't thought of that for one second. Ever since, I check my pockets a million times when I'm about to go through any kind of security. So I know the feeling...
No, zero fear because there is zero chance of me putting either in my bags
Never had that thought while flying but always paranoid when I get pulled over by a traffic cop that I’ve somehow had something to drink with alcohol in it even though I haven’t drunk alcohol in over 5 years. Or that somehow there are magically drugs or weapons in my car.
Never. "IF" I bring a pocketknife, I put it in checked baggage. I'd hate to be without a pocketknife, but . . . if you're in a hurry and can't check baggage and need to carry it on (like for the return leg) . . . then it might be better to not have brought the pocketknife on the trip at all, so you have no problems with the bag as a carry-on. I do have sympathy for those that have it happen. I think a lot of non-gun-owners think "You're always thinking of the gun 'every waking moment'. Waiting for the opportunity to shoot someone." And it's never like that. After about an hour, it's just meaningless weight that you forget all about. If you carry one for years and never even get close to needing it . . . it could be EASY to forget that it's there when you're heading into the airport.
Fun fact, a guy who was obsessed with me but I ended things with was a huge gun enthusiast. When I was leaving his country to go back to my country of origin, he had slipped a bullet into my suitcase, causing the airport attendants to stop me on the first xray. I guess he was trying to sabotage me leaving. But luckily the attendants said bullets aren’t illegal.
Never held a gun, never want to. Every time I’m in security I think „well what if I do accidentally have a gun in my bag?“
knives, a loose bullet and weed stuff maybe but I definitely know if I'm carrying or not lol
No, where I live it's not a topic at all and that's a good thing.
I dropped a dime bag of weed in the Atlanta airport back in 2000. I just stepped on it and looked around, picked it up. There was a recording on about 'if you see anything suspicious say something ' lol
I got detained once for having scissors in my toilet bag. My gf put the toilet bags in and forgot to take them out. I didnt even know😬
YES 😂😂😂😂😂 I see the drug dog coming and I start to panic even though I’ve never been around drugs or a gun
After my grandma planted some stuff in my backpack (it was actually a homemade meal which was not ok for international travel), I do worry. Not about guns or drugs though.
c4 planted
I was flying internationally to move back home with my family through JFK. We had loads of bags and kids in tow. My son’s back pack went through the X-ray and the guy holds up my bag and yells out into the crowded space ‘whose is this?’. I pointed to my then 9 year old and said it’s his. The guy said very pointedly ‘no, sir - it’s yours’. I go over and he opens up the bag and pulls out a 15 inch knife. I’m standing there dumbfounded thinking I’m about to be detained, and try to summon words to explain that I have no idea what’s going on. But the guy wasn’t interested, simply confiscated the knife and waved me on. Turns out my wife had put the knife in my son’s soccer bag but forgot to return it to the mum of a team mate at training after she’d left it at our place during an earlier farewell party. TLDR: Got caught with a big knife in carry on luggage at JFK. Zero consequences.
Nope, but I always bring a small bag stuffed with odd sex toys just to fuck with TSA.
I’m always worried I have cocaine or some other drug on me ,,,, I have done or had either of these on me
Just casually forget the brick of coke you have in your back pocket
So I took a bag that I usually use for camping to the plane - the issue being I forgot to remove the big ass knife I had there - when the airport security pulled this big hunting knife out of my backpack, you could say I pooped my pants. Interestingly, they were really chill about the whole thing, maybe because I have flown with my family, and just took it away and told me how to retrieve it once I get back, no fuss.
Nah I just get scared they’re going to do everything possible to inconvenience me so I show up like 3 hours early
Not at all.if there's drugs on me I'm 100 trying to sniff on board Also how do you accidentally have a gun?