Liverpool Airport Security Checks

Ste_C

oldagetraveller wrote: »

I'd bet you wouldn't be complaining if your 'plane had been blown up and everyone on board killed.:p

Aye. If a terrorist forces the little plastic zip down the pilot's throat and it chokes him and the plane crashes into a huge ball of fire and you die, don't even think about running to me to complain.

THINK: PLASTIC ZIPS KILL. Remain vigilant.

maninthestreet

oldagetraveller wrote: »

I'd bet you wouldn't be complaining if your 'plane had been blown up and everyone on board killed.:p

As a result of the type of seal on the plastic bag used for carry-on liquids ????

BFG_2

oldagetraveller wrote: »

I'd bet you wouldn't be complaining if your 'plane had been blown up and everyone on board killed.:p

Correct, coz it's difficult to complain [especially in writing] when you're dead.

Bring on the chief scammer and muppet, Mr Derek 'OOhhhhh' Acora

Bronnie

Well, while Liverpool John Lennon Airport security are distracted by the decoy plastic zipper bags, it does leave others of us free to smuggle on guns and sharp metal pointed implements.................................

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=2091757&highlight=liverpool+airport

Fuzzy_Duck

I also got into trouble over my plastic bag. It was the second time I'd been abroad after a trip years ago, so security had changed a lot since then. Apparently my bag wasn't transparent enough. It was a sandwich bag, and perhaps a little cloudier than other bags, but you could still clearly see what's in it. The man also told me off for having mascara, which is apparently counted as a liquid, commented on my choice of reading material, and rummaged through my undies bag. I am easily embarrassed and found myself apologising for all I'd done wrong, even though I was fairly sure that man was being a git.

willa

Reca_5050 wrote: »

Couldn't you have just bitten the top half (with the zip) off?

???Then it wouldn't seal and they definitely wouldn't accept it. Sounds like the bloke might have been being petty though, can't see what difference it makes. Or else, as someone else has said, it's some sort of security command.
Thing is, it's all a bit weird anyway because you're not allowed to take on certain 'sharp' items for instance, but if someone was really determined to harm or kill someone on the plane they could easily do it with the items they are allowed to take on. Sharp jab to the right place with a household key?

*max*

BFG wrote: »

It's a well known fact that terrorists have had special training at camps in Libya in how to bring down a fully secured jet using just the plastic zip bit from a sandwich bag....hence the increased security action.

Thank you, that gave me a good laugh!! :beer:

I always use ziplock bags (same as OP!), and I've never had a problem...I think the guard was probably a jobsworth who was shown ONE type of bags as an example during training and wouldn't accept any other.
My camembert cheese from France was taken off me once though! :rotfl:
Just imagine the drama if I'd placed it inside a ziplock bag as well!!! I'd probably be typing this from Guantanamo Bay....:p

skintbuthappy81

I flew from Liverpool to Barcelona last month and had the same experience as OP plus the guy at the x-ray point pulled everything (including underwear!!) out of my bag to find ermm.... nothing. I usually fly from manchester and have never had a problem. Think I'll be sticking to manchester from now on.

Oneday77

Is that where the take the plastic zip off, flatten it out with their shoe, then with the skill of oragami fold up a working Anti-Aircraft Missile?

cally120

sabina1986 wrote: »

Just wanted to let you all know about a recent experience in Liverpool John Lennon Airport, that may be of interest if you are planning on using the airport anytime soon.
Last week I travelled to Germany and having not travelled from there for a long time, instead choosing to fly from Manchester I assumed the security proceedures would be pretty much the same.
Previously I have been requested to put any liquid items (that complys with sizing rules) into a small clear plastic bag if it is to be carried in hand luggage.
Last time i flew from Manchester I used a clear small sandwich bag with a zipper on the top to avoid the items falling out.
When I walked through to the security check area I was asked to place any liquids ect in the tray with my shoes, belt,coat ect. I did this, but no sooner than it had landed in the tray, did the security assistant grab it out and say that it was "unacceptable" due to the bag. I asked why this was so, and he explained "that the bag must not have a plastic zip strip (one that you run across, like a zip but plastic to open close the bag) but must be one with a strip you close with your fingers"? I was completley bemused by this as it was exactly the same princple less the small piece of plastic used as a zipper on mine.
I was not prepared to argue and hold people up so instead I asked for one thinking the airport was probably been fussy and would provide me with one, instead he advised me to go out of security down the corridor to a vending machine and buy 2 for 50p?!?!
I decided not to argue and just sort the problem out instead as the que's were long and I did not want to be late for my flight. (I had an online check in and dont really like airport shopping )
After I got down the corridor there was another que of nearly 30 people all doing the same thing and buying these bags from the vending machine. (which I should point out were slightly larger than my bag with no plastic zipper but thats it?) A lady also told me she had forgotten to take her plastic bag out of her hand luggage,and obviously it had been picked up on the X-Ray and so she was asked to open her case, and the guy doing the searches on the other end was very rude, pulling her things out and then stuffing them all back in, to make matters worse he told her she was the rude one when she mentioned him doing this, as she had held everyone up! Oh errr someone must have been having a bad day .
Anyway generally although this is a rant at the fact Liverpool seem to have a nice little money spinner here with this trick, I really wanted to know had any other MSE members had a problem with this at Liverpool or any other airport for that matter? And no, before anyone asks I don't want compensation and I wouldn't even have bothered writing this if it had only applied to me but clearly this was not the case.
Sorry if it was a bit long, but rant over!

hiya you must have got someone on a bad day, because I have a clinique plastic see-thru makeup bag (bought it with travelling stuff in from the website) and they said it conforms to the airline rules) and it has the same type of zip that you mentioned and I had no problems at all in liverpool last yr with it, went from manchester this yr and that was fine too.