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Re:Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security by tehwebguy on Monday May 02, 2016 @09:54AM (#11611324)
It was from League of Leagends (Sivir). It's not sharp or aerodynamic, just a "spinner" toy.

One of the vendors from the League convention I put on gave it to me as a token of thanks just before the event ended. I dropped it in my bag and forgot it until flying a few weeks later.

Bonus: My business partner was given the same one and the same thing happened at BUR. TSA asked if she wanted to mail it home, she said "toss it" and never heard another word!

Bonus 2: Cop asks me "who do you main?" (as in, what champion do you mainly play in LoL)

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Re:Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security by koolba on Monday May 02, 2016 @10:38AM (#11611697)
> Bonus: My business partner was given the same one and the same thing happened at BUR. TSA asked if she wanted to mail it home, she said "toss it" and never heard another word!

Free business idea!

UPS/FedEx/USPS packaging site at the end of the TSA line. When they say you can't take your cologne, knife, or toothbrush because it's too dangerous, you can immediately give it one of our helpful agents and they'll instead mail it your home!

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Re:Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security by nostrademons on Monday May 02, 2016 @02:43PM (#11614231)
They have this at many airports, but the prices are exorbitant. It was something like $10 to mail a swiss army knife home (vs. $15 to just replace it). They have a captive monopoly - there is one place you can mail it from, you can't step out of the terminal, and you have to decide immediately if you want to toss or mail - so they can charge whatever they want.
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Re:Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security by tehwebguy on Monday May 02, 2016 @10:46AM (#11611764)
TSA already have a deal with USPS in some airports.
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Re:Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security by seanp2k2 on Monday May 02, 2016 @02:53PM (#11614340)
Yep, and IIRC getting out of line to mail something (plus you have to track down postage stamps elsewhere again IIRC) means you have to then go through the whole thing again.
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Re:Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security by SystemOut on Monday May 02, 2016 @01:37PM (#11613596)
They have this option in Seattle already
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Re:Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security by jghn on Monday May 02, 2016 @01:56PM (#11613790)
As a child in the early 80s I had my bag searched due to some GI Joe toys, in this case knockoffs of missiles for some SAM launcher or somesuch. It's not just a modern TSA thing.
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Re:Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security by raldi on Monday May 02, 2016 @12:04PM (#11612592)
I'm having trouble picturing this. Could you upload a photo to imgur?
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Re:Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security by noxToken on Monday May 02, 2016 @12:37PM (#11612964)
This[1] isn't the toy, but this is splash art of the character with good view of her weapon. It's based off of the chakram. The toy would have looked something like that.

[1]: http://static1.eclypsia.com/images/lol/champions/Sivir_Splas...

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Re:Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security by tehwebguy on Monday May 02, 2016 @12:59PM (#11613181)
The worst part is I'm garbage with Sivir /s
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Re:Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security by lisper on Monday May 02, 2016 @12:48PM (#11613065)
Something like this I'm guessing:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rotatable-LOL-League-of-Legends-Sivi...

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Re:Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security by tehwebguy on Monday May 02, 2016 @12:56PM (#11613154)
Yeah exactly that.

I can imagine that looking really scary through the x-ray but it's definitely not a weapon.

I'm not indignant about being stopped with it - just about being treated like a criminal instead of someone who just made a mistake. It was like my 30th flight of the year and I had (real) status with 2 airlines, and I was in a tiny little PreCheck screening wing with maybe 6 other passengers and 10 TSA at 5:00 AM.

It just seems like everything lined up for this to be a simple process that would have been easily determined to be inadvertent and not a danger to anyone, but I still got hosed!

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