Danny T
Senior Master
When I fly I always get pulled out of line for extra screening. I don't know why. My wife gets a great, personal kick out of it though, usually telling the TSA workers "Check his socks, he's been hiding things in his socks forever."
Yet, I always fly armed with several weapons - none of which have ever been found by TSA, airport security or anybody else. Because I've been playing this game a whole lot longer than they have, I've been playing it since the early seventies, always with the idea of stopping a hijacking. (They were fairly common back then.) You might think airport security has always been around. It has, but not in a real, tactical sense.
Last weekend flew to Newark, NY from New Orleans and back with a couple students for the Pekiti-Tirsia International camp. They both walked right through security and waited patiently while I was scanned, wanded, and then patted down both times. In N.O. it only took a few minutes more but in Newark I was detained for almost 15 minutes along with a poor elderly lady in a wheelchair.
As to having articles as weapons...yeap...I'm sure we share a lot of 'outside the box' thinking. I always have a few.