You CAN take more than 100ml of drink on a plane

andrewmoorcroft

OK, this may sound stupid but last week i went on a plane and saw a passenger take a 1 litre bottle of frozen water through security and onto a plane!!! After my hand luggage was x-rayed i was called to the hand check table at the same time as the offender and listened in.

The conversation went something like this...
The guy on security asked a passenger if he had any liquids and he replied "no". They searched the bag, took out the bottle and said "what's this". The passenger replied "solid water commonly known as ice". The security guy said that it was not allowed because it is a liquid. The passenger replied "your wrong, it's a solid". The security guy said that it could be a liquid if it was warmed up. The passenger said "So would my box of chocolates that youve not warned me about and my laptop would turn into liquid if warm enough". The security guy said that rule means liquid at room temperature. The passenger replied "now your making up the rules or putting your own interpretation on them. You are obliged to follow the technical meaning of the rules without emotion, prejudice, interpretation or sentiment". The security guy spoke to his boss and appeared to let the passenger through with his solid!

Not sure i'll be trying it but i guess airport secuirity have left a loop hole in their rules!

PeteMc

Interesting story!

It wouldn't have been customs though but airport security.

zebidee1

Can't help feeling a bottle of ice is more of a problem than a bottle of water. At least you can't cosh someone over the head with water! :rolleyes:

andykolo

is it a written law that you cant take a liquid or are the airlines coming up with their own rules

phatbear

There is nothing stopping people taking what they want on to planes, however getting fluids past security in another issue.

This is an issue which I have fallen foul of on more than one occasion due to working in an airport, the irony is I cant walk through a secuirty check with a bottle of coke however once airside I can buy a bottle of coke quite easliy, the argument in our office is its BAA's way of making more money, they once assured us the reason that shops could sell fluids airside is because they had been checked my the Dept for Transport, which is total tosh.

Also having spoken to a heck of a lot of people arriving from foreign airports they all report the same thing that it only really happens en masse in the UK, lets face facts if someone wanted to get fluids into the secure area of an airport they could and it would be very very easy.


One other issue if for instance I have to work late and buy a chinese in then if I have sweet and sour sauce BAA will confiscate it, however, if I pour the sauce over my food its ok, what the heck is that all about?


Anyway rant over

all the best

the bear

trisontana

These rules have nothing to do with BAA. For a start they don't own every airport in the UK. The rules about liquids are laid down by the government . Every EU country have now adopted the same rules and regulations. News article here :-

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6119414.stm

moonrakerz

This whole area just goes to show what a farce much of this airline "security" is.

You can't take a plastic bottle of Tesco's water or your toe nail clippers through security, but you can buy a bottle of whisky in the 'duty free' and take that onto the aircraft.

1. Pour the whisky onto your seat and set light to it - instant fire bomb !
2. Hold bottle by neck, smash on metal frame of your seat - superb weapon !

The whole thing is stupid !

callansdad

The thing is, that although they are inconvenient, these rules are here to protect us.

budgetflyer

callansdad wrote: »

The thing is, that although they are inconvenient, these rules are here to protect us.

No they are not.

They are an infringement of our civil liberties.

My wife forgot to mention the 50ml bottle of Anais Anais in her handbag. It was confiscated as it wasnt in the clear plastic bag. It went thru the scanner, was tested with a swab, deemed to be ok but was still taken off her.

In front of us, departure side was the stag party. Pi5hed out their heads, complete with disposable lighters, litre glass bottles of spirits. Swearing and carrying on like morons. Who was the greater security risk ?

Normal people are subjected to extreme stop , search and interogation akin to fascist/communist/nazi states in order to protect our liberty ?

The security agencies know who the enemy is, they should concentrate their efforts stopping them

moonrakerz

callansdad wrote: »

The thing is, that although they are inconvenient, these rules are here to protect us.

If they did, people wouldn't mind, but as I pointed out previously many of these "rules" are a complete and utter waste of time.

Instead of just accepting them, people should question - WHY ?

welshnige

Well me personally Im all for letting everyone through with whatever they like, take as much liquid as you want and then when a plane has been blown up over the sea somewhere.........okay I appreciate I may have gone a little overboard there and that some people may just take a little offence there but that is why these rules are made and to actually believe that someone has the (okay I am going to stop myself from typing mentally challenged attitude of "I am who I am and going to do what I want and take what I want where I want and stick two fingers up to the authorities that are protecting everyone else" attitude) chauvinistic approach to life and think it is a personal challenge to out do these people.
I went away three weeks ago with my family and the dear wife forget she had a 50ml bottle of perfume in her handbag, told the very nice check-in girl and she said it was not a problem as long as it was not over 100 ml which it wasnt, and guess what, it wasnt a problem when it got scanned.
Called me old fashioned, call me stupid, but to me I would rather go through 100 security checks without a bottle of water and arrive to my destination with my family in one piece rather than the other option of no security checks with people stood arguing about a very very cheap bottle of water that could actually be anything and think they are very big and bright for doing so, holding people up in a queue, making people more tetchy, not the sort of start to a holiday let alone the final outcome of what was really in the bottle.