• amigan@lemmy.dynatron.me
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          10 months ago

          DID YOU KNOW YOU’RE NOT ALLOWED TO ASK ME WHAT MY ROTTING FISH CARCASS IS FOR UNDER THE ADA. I’M SUING YOU

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        Because security is more concerned with finding weapons and drugs. Customs/Borders Enforcement is the group tasked with finding prohibited plants and animals, and they don’t usually start looking for those things until you get to the destination country.

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          I had a block of cheese one time, they went crazy about it. X-rayed it a bunch. They really didn’t like that cheese.

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            That was probably because of the density of the cheese. I had the same thing happen to me with a bag of gnocchi once. They really thought it was something illicit because they had a big armed security guy on either side of me while they had me open it, and they looked really disappointed to find out what it really was.

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            I got stopped with a Panettone once. Thankfully this was in EWR so the Italian-American gate agent understood why I’d be snuggling one to the west coast.

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              It was a 5lb block of cheddar from UW Provisions, in Madison Wisconsin. Which, in their defense, is a very large block of cheese.

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        In the US, they can’t stop you from bringing a fish through, even if it’s rotting. The airline can deny you boarding, if they even know about it ahead of time, but TSA isn’t in charge of any of that.

        I see now this is from AMS to DET, I’m not familiar with Amsterdam’s security or rules, so there is a decent chance my first paragraph is incorrect in this situation.