La Guardia didn't find a knife in my bag last month

[Lou_C]

I accidentally had a pocket knife in my luggage from a previous trip that I had taken years ago when I went camping.

It was a smaller bag with tons of pockets and I carried it on to the flight and put the bag under my seat.

When I got to my destination my friend that was helping me unpack found the knife and asked me how I had gotten this past the security check at La Guardia Airport.

They are not doing their job and we still need to be aware of this.

I phoned the airport and airlines and let them know that I got a knife past security by accident and I told them to talk to the baggage checkers about this because I didn't appreciate them not finding it in my bag.

BTW Both Air Marshall's on the plane talked about their job schedule during the flight and one on sitting in the front and the other one was in the back. They were yelling back and fourth during the flight and it was awkward. They both had guns on their side which also made them very obvious.

Are Air Marshall's suppose to let people know who they are?

[Poiuyt]

1. Somebody else did this

He was testing the airport security to show them the holes in the system. When he revealed what he had done, they arrested him.

[Lou_C]

2. I phoned them from a pay phone

I didn't give them my name but I gave them a bawling out.

[Catherine Vincent]

4. Policeman were also checking ladies purses before graduation ceremonies.

I attended two graduation ceremonies over the weekend and both time I had a knife in my purse. (I sometimes forget it's in there). When they did check my purse, they didn't stand there and check every compartment. I even went thru the metal detector. They didn't spot it.

They better be glad I wasn't some terrorist.:)

[Lou_C]

5. The bag went through the metal detector

They had me sit my bag on the machine and they checked me and not the bag and then they let me go on through.

[RobinA]

10. Good Lord

You WANT them to confiscate penknives at graduations? What nonsense.

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. I'm not surprised

LaGuardia is the same airport that allowed myself and 30 other passengers board a flight without checking anyone's tickets or ID, just two weeks before 9-11. They said they were in a hurry to turn the plane around and that since there was so few passengers on the flight to just get on the plane.

[Lou_C]

6. I think that they are underpaid

When your underpaid sometimes you don't care about your job.

[DoYouEverWonder]

9. I'm not talking about the security folks

This was the US Air flight attendents and gate crew who let us on. Since I only had one piece of carry on with me, all I had to do was put my stuff on the belt and get scanned, but at no point was my ticket, boarding pass or ID checked.

[Deja Q]

7. Yipes

The guards were just DUMB, if nothing else but to have their weapons where everybody can see them. The terrorists have been shown as being vigilant and prepared too...

When the two dumbbells yelled at each other, did they say what type of work they did - or was it just the big guns that suggested they were the air marshalls?

[Lou_C]

8. They also had large drinking cups that had the airlines name on them.

You knew what kind of work that they were doing.

They were discussing their flights and how many hours they had clocked in that week.

Both of them had to be in their 50's and they should have known better.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

11. Hmm...

>Are Air Marshall's suppose to let people know who they are?

I suppose it's probably not entirely a bad idea to let everyone know that there are air marshalls on the plane. I suppose it might make anyone think twice about starting some shit, though it is rather unusual.