I've had a few funny things happen to me at a security checkpoint. Anyone else have similiar experiences?

At one airport, I kept setting off the metal detector and we just couldn't pinpoint it. The security guy kept waving the wand up and down until we finally realized it was the underwire in my bra!! This was pre-9/11 so he just let me through, but I wonder what I would have to do if that happened today?

Another time, I was travelling for business with several colleagues. At the last minute I realized the date and threw some "feminine supplies" on top of the clothes in my carry-on. Naturally, I got chosen for inspection as we went through security. Five of us (2 men, three women) stood watching as my carry-on was opened in full view, with tampons and feminine napkins strewn everywhere. Lovely!!

My chastity belt beeped going through the detector and my husband had the key. Needless to say I was traveling alone. To make a long story short, I just lay down and went through the X-ray machine so they could see it was just my chastity belt. Anyone know where I can get a plastic chastity belt to avoid the radiation next time? At least I didn't have any cavities!

As we were boarding, my son's boarding pass set off whatever 'random search' to the gate agent. My son is only 2 years old! They took him to the side, waved the wand around his little arms & legs, and then proceeded to take his shoes off! I'm just glad I didn't have to unpack his diaper bag.

Honest story.

The oldest of my two younger brothers recently took a job in Boston, and relocated out there with his wife. I made plans to visit him, and thought it would be really cool to fly my younger little brother (19) out with me.

Flight out, ok. The visit, wonderful.

Then we get to the airport to fly home. My youngest brother and I are going through security, first me, OK, then him, "BAG CHECK!".

I walk over to the table with him to watch security rifle through his things. The officer is gently reaching in between layers of clothes with his latex-gloved hands, and pulls out a 12" plus sex toy! You know what I mean.

After an initial "what the hell" I look over at my beet-red faced little bro who could only manage a "well, that's not mine?!?" out of his mouth. Made the two of us look like fo, well, you know. The security officer, visibly and very highly amused (trying very hard not to hide the smirking smile) tells my bro "son, you're gonna have to check this, or part with it."

Then I hear a roaring cackling laugh from behind me... sure enough, my older little bro and his wife were literally on the floor and in tears! I should have known it was him, planting that thing in the bag to embarrass us. I must admit, that was a good one!

Michelle, I've had the underwire in my bra set off the metal detector, too. The bad thing was that a MALE agent wanted to do a pat-down search on me! I insisted that a female agent do it, and she said that the underwire thing was a common problem.

Oh Brad,
That is the funniest thing I have heard in the longest time. They will tell that story for years to come.

My shoes set off the alarm in the metal detector but before they inspected me, they checked my 9 month old baby who I was carrying. Let's just say she cried bloody murder while they were inspecting her. Didn't find it amusing back then but I find it amusing now. This wasn't the first time we've been searched.

I have a story similar to the underwire bra story only worse. I was traveling for business with 2 co-workers both male (we are all attorneys and certainly not poor). we were set to leave straight from work one day. About half way thru the work day, the hook on my bra broke! I couldn't go around like that without it hooked so I did a temporary fix and got a safety pin from my secretary to hold it together, thinking I would change as soon as I got to my hotel before dinner. A couple of hours go by and I forget about it, I get to the airport and keep beeping no matter what they check. (belt off shoes off the works) Finally it is discovered that it is my bra held together by a safety pin! I remembered halfway thru the patdown and had to qietly tell te security officer what I thought it was. don't think I didn't get heck for that. The bra thing is embarassing enough but then people thought I was jsut too cheap to buy new bras when they broke and went around contiually wearing ones held together by safety pin!

My 3-year old (flying alone!) was going through security when his dog, being flown too, got loose and ran out onto the landing strip - causing the airport to close for almost 2 hours. Thank god I wasn't there when it happened, otherwise that might be among my most embarrassing. True story!!

This was a combination funny/heart-warming moment. I was flying just 4 weeks after 9/11, and the mood at the airport was still very tense. As I got through security, the flight crew was right behind me. The pilot set off the alarm, so they pulled him to the side, and the search began. While one security guard was doing pat-down, then removal of belt, etc., the other guard was checking his crendentials, and noticed it was his birthday. She announced this loudly, and the whole security area, and some passengers, began singing "Happy Birthday". The pilot stood there, red-faced, listening to the tribute, all the while, being searched in earnest.

I too had my underwire bra set off the metal detector in Nashville. There was an older man with that "wand thing" that they wave over you, and he must have waved it over my chest 4 times and looked very puzzled to why this was happening. He finally let me go. Very embarassing.

The underwire bra thing worked in my favor once when I had stuffed a joint into my bra. At first I was worried it was a pot-sniffing wand, but the security guard said it was just my underwire and waved me through. Phew!

Urm, nipple rings will set off metal detectors also.

ROTFLMAO!

Back up....a 3 year old flying alone??????
I've got a 3 year old, I can't fathom this!!
Whatever could make that necessary?

Chalk that one up to a troll post. I've checked before and at that time, 3 years old was too young to fly alone. I didn't say anything earlier, because I couldn't remember the specific age limits.

Laughing liek crazy!

After 9/11, I had heard about the underwire bra thing, so I decided to skip the bra entirely and just wear a tee shirt with a denim jacket over the top. Wasn't that smart??? Except that my denim jacket had metal buttons on the pockets so I was asked to remove the jacket even before I went thru the detectors. I was lookin' a bit "earthy" and uncomfortable for longer than I cared!! Next time, no metal buttons. Duh.

a little off the subject, but an airport story......returning from a weeks vacation at around midnight, I leave the wife and two young sons in the terminal and go to retrieve the car in the long term parking lot. Going to where I thought I parked the car, I search and search..walking up and down isles and isles no car...after about 45 mins, a security car pulls up,,I explain my plight, I didnt know my plate number, so he couldn't help me locate it that way,,so I hop in his truck and we drive up and down rows..after about another 30 or so mins with no luck,,he gets a call on his radio,,asking him if he has seen someone out in the lot..they had a women with two kids at the terminal a little concerned. He informs them I was with him and we were looking for my "Bronco"...there is a long pause...
" you might tell him to look for the Suburu"............ a lighbulb goes off in my head..duhhhhhh I had forgotten which car we had taken.

That's too funny Dan! I literally laughed out loud.