Tape mixup
Just last month I was traveling through Inverness airport. Innocently I had an old roll of Gaffer Tape in my hand luggage (always useful so just lives in bottom of my rucksack).

Get to security and my bag doesn't appear the other side of the x-ray. I get called over by a little jobs worth who asks me if this is my bag. What now I ponder? She pulls out the roll of gaffer tape and asks.
"This yours"?
"Shit" thinks I, thinking any minute armed response will appear thinking me some terrorist about to tie up the sky marshal secreted on board. I knew I shouldn't have grown a beard.

Luckily they realized I was no terrorist and confiscated my tape. But nowhere is Gaffer listed as a banned item, I want them to replace the roll (now I am no longer scared of armed response).

Anyway that is my tape mix(up)
(manbear84, Thu 14 Feb 2008, 10:13, 2 replies)

Tape?
That's a weird thing to confiscate, what are you gonna do with it? I recently forgot to take my Swiss army knife out of my daypack before going through customs... Thank goodness it was in Costa Rica and not in America so they just realised it was an honest mistake, confiscated it and sent me on my way.
(grandmasterfluffles Come to my Armageddon party on, Thu 14 Feb 2008, 11:10, closed)

I've carried gaffer tape before
and no-one's ever questioned it. I once had to check my Swiss Army knife in as hold baggage too, and pick it up from the carousel as it went round in a manila envelope!

(This was pre 9/11, so I was normally allowed to carry it in my pocket, but Toronto airport security weren't having any of it.)
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 14 Feb 2008, 11:15, closed)