It's interesting how we can all have such opposit judgments while sharing roughly the same education/experiences, and that it usually falls into a 50/50 share. I think an automated system to identify criminals in the most likely 'points of exit' is quite remarkable. I know that throughout history government have not really been so gentle, but that's an anoher topic -we get the governments we deserve. On the other hand, it would be nice to have something in return, like no more check-ins or something, and for the love of all that is love, maybe lessen this silly security check - take off my shoes? check my bag with a $50000 mass spectrometer to see if if there is powder? have any of these machine ever detected something anywhere in the world? How about less hypocrisy and tell us about that super elastic relation between 'time spent' and '$ spent" is? I disgressed, but that's what annoys me, that a place where people are arbitrarly prohibited from bringing water, has criminally-inflated prices for a bottle of water -even if I'v been blessed so that I have them for free in the lounge. That's what I think is a problem. Not cameras.
I travelled from Australia to Malaysia to Canada (with a stopover in Dubai), and all the time I had 2 1/2 bottles of water (probably 1.5 litres) in my carry-on bag that I had forgotten. Something about a 46-hour journey, perhaps.
I went through 8 security gates, and no one ever stopped or questioned me about the water. And when I found it at my destination, I threw it out.
Airports in UK have started lifting the fluid limits, the new X-ray machines are much better at determining the contents.
So as airports upgrade those rules may finally be getting obsoleted.
Can't happen soon enough. My wife tried to bring home a nice little bottle of scotch from Edinburgh and security confiscated because they could not convince themselves that 10 dL <= 100 mL. And further, that since the bottle capacity was cast into the glass and not printed on the paper label, it was possible that the actual content was greater than 100 mL. When my wife tried to question the logic of that reasoning, the lead security guy more or less threatened to fuck over our entire trip home by detaining us for a while.
They did offer to ship the bottle to us at our expense, but the shipping fee was over a hundred pounds and it was cheaper to buy a much larger bottle of the same stuff from an importer.
I hope some day we can dispense with the security theater.
Hey man. 10dL = 1L
Yeah, I don't do metric by default, so I sometimes mixup the exact conversions, especially from memory. It was certainly cL, not dL. It was a bottle of this, which is not special, but a novelty souvenir my wife wanted to bring home: https://stagsbreath.co.uk/products/stags-breath-liqueur-10cl
She ended up just having a 70 cL bottle shipped to us and we wrote off the one stolen at Heathrow.
Plot twist: it was 10 deka-liters! (;->
That is good news!
Glad to see so many airports focusing on real threats instead of security theatre!
Weren't you thirsty, mate?