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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Who the fuck packs a rotting fish into a carry-on bag??

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

And how the fuck does the rotting fish bag get through security?

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was an emotional support rotting fish carcass.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

DID YOU KNOW YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO ASK ME WHAT MY ROTTING FISH CARCASS IS FOR UNDER THE ADA. I'M SUING YOU

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Because security is more concerned with finding weapons and drugs. Customs/Borders Enforcement is the group tasked with finding prohibited plants and animals, and they don’t usually start looking for those things until you get to the destination country.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I had a block of cheese one time, they went crazy about it. X-rayed it a bunch. They really didn't like that cheese.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That was probably because of the density of the cheese. I had the same thing happen to me with a bag of gnocchi once. They really thought it was something illicit because they had a big armed security guy on either side of me while they had me open it, and they looked really disappointed to find out what it really was.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Most anticlimatic resolution lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I got stopped with a Panettone once. Thankfully this was in EWR so the Italian-American gate agent understood why I'd be smuggling one to the west coast.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

was it brunost by any chance?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It was a 5lb block of cheddar from UW Provisions, in Madison Wisconsin. Which, in their defense, is a very large block of cheese.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Obviously with emphasis on "theatre"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In the US, they can't stop you from bringing a fish through, even if it's rotting. The airline can deny you boarding, if they even know about it ahead of time, but TSA isn't in charge of any of that.

I see now this is from AMS to DET, I'm not familiar with Amsterdam's security or rules, so there is a decent chance my first paragraph is incorrect in this situation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wait, what? They make me empty out my water bottle, but cant stop a fish??

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Drink the fish while on the plane. Problem solved.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

If you squeeze it hard enough, there is definitely more than 8oz of liquid in there.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Might have been sealed up airtight and they said it was smoked fish or something. Still, to have maggots, it's almost impossible that it didn't come through unless vacuum sealed. Yeah, that's how I should, I mean they could have done it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some cheese has maggots by design.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

“Maggots by Design” is a good name for a metal band . Pink logo

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not a liquid. I don't see the problem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I dunno, depends on how long it's been rotting...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I’m not paying $7 for a packet of lays