Originally Posted by maleficent

I know it can't be an easy job to do, in some instances it's gotta be mindnumbingly dull -- when they can least afford to be bored... Watching bag after bag go thru, looking for stuff (I think it was MSNBC that has a test that you could take to see how you'd do as a baggage screener - I failed miserably)

I know what I've unintentionally gotten on planes with -- and i know what I've gotten confiscated - there is a lot of inconsistency