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[QUOTE="Deleted member 3000, post: 256601"] Each TSA employee screens tens of thousands of travelers each year. Each one receives extensive training on searching passengers and luggage. While it may be true that some are idiots and pilgrims are smarter than they are, by the time I get to the inspection station, I assume that they have heard it all. "I need those trekking poles to walk. Well, yes, I am about to walk 450 miles in Spain carrying that backpack, but really, I am disabled." Years ago before TSA, a friend returned from Spain with some furs. To avoid customs, she did not declare them, and stated that she had taken them with her when leaving the United States. Since the customs agent heard that excuse a dozen times a day, he took her to the back room, and searched her purse. Being a banker, she had saved the receipts in her wallet. She lost the furs, and paid the duty and a hefty fine. So much for saving a bit of money by buying furs in Spain. In the paranoid world of TSA today, anyone making a false statement to an agent takes an unimaginable risk. Agents have power that Caesar only dreamed of. Without even blinking an eye, an agent may remove a passenger to a holding room until his flight has left. If the passenger decides to get sassy and argue the point, the process may only begin with missing the flight. I do not think airport inspections as currently conducted have made air travel any safer, but my attitude is kept in check while traveling. I have a head full of opinions, and I suspect that the TSA does not want to hear any of them.:) I have inquired about the specific permissibility of trekking poles on airplanes. If a few thousand more inquiries are sent to TSA, they may actually state a clear policy. Or maybe not. Still, it is better than griping at the airport. They cannot detain you while you are at home on your computer! Here is the website: [url]https://apps.tsa.dhs.gov/talktotsa/[/url] TSA regulations are not binding outside the USA, so it may always be difficult to take poles home from Santiago as cabin baggage... [/QUOTE]
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