? Why? do we even expect compliance to written rules, consistency and logic from agents of (what’s clear to all parties involved) is a mandated, but largely illogical security-theater TSA/equiv. Hannibal Burgess routine about the TSA liquids rules.
It is different in the UK.ĮDITED TO ADD (10/13): According to a 2009 TSA blog post, frozen ice (not semi-melted) is allowed. I don’t have to when I am in the PreCheck lane, but no one seems to care in the regular lane either. Another screener searched my bag, found it and looked at it, and then let me keep it.Īnd, in general, I never bother taking my liquids out of my suitcase anymore. The screener flagged it it was obvious on the x-ray. Yesterday I went through airport security at SFO with an opened 5-ounce bottle of hot sauce in my carry-on. And anyone landing in the UK from the US will have to go through security before any onward flight, so there’s no chance at flouting the UK rules that way.Īnd while we’re on the general subject, I am continually amazed by how lax the liquid rules are here in the US. One of the TSA officials even told me that what he was officially told is that liquid explosives don’t freeze. I confirmed this with TSA officials at two other airports this week. I expected to have to dump the ice at the security checkpoint and refill it inside the airport, but the TSA official looked at it and let it through. Last week, I tried to bring through a small cooler containing, among other things, a bag of ice. They didn’t spend the time to look it up.”Īs it happens, I have a comparable recent experience. They’d probably not seen it before, didn’t know the rules, and being a bit of an eccentric request, decided to act on the side of caution. I expect they’re probably wrong to take it from me. He grabbed his supervisor and the supervisor told me that ‘the government does not classify that as a solid’. When he said I couldn’t take it I asked if he knew that for sure or just assumed. “He told me that it wasn’t allowed so I asked under what grounds, given it is not a liquid. Gizmodo reports that UK airport security confiscates frozen liquids: Bringing Frozen Liquids through Airport Security
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