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Post by bisdu on Aug 17, 2014 10:51:24 GMT 1
So where does it go - as if I can't guess?
Being a lover of peanut butter I normally ask my daughter to bring it from the UK when she comes over. I know you can get it here but she has a UK Costco card and very large jars are a fraction of the price.
Last visit she was stopped at Manchester airport and told she could not (despite doing it on numerous other occasions) bring in crunchy peanut butter as it is a liquid.
Despited unsealing the jar, tipping it upside down and demonstrating that as it stayed inside it was surely a solid, the jars were still confiscated.
So what happens to it now?
Is some jobsworth eating it as I type
What have you had taken off you?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2014 11:16:26 GMT 1
I had a jar of mincemeat taken off me,we were looking forward to mince pies at Xmas, they wouldn't even let me open the jar and eat some to prove it was harmless.
The jar was placed in a box with other items they had confiscated, a nice Xmas hamper for somebody me thinks.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2014 11:26:12 GMT 1
Never had anything taken off me (except my dignity at Dinard last Tuesday when security insisted I 'sit down plizz' to take my trainers off)
Looks like peanut butter is classed as a gel and as such prohibited in hand luggage. Lots of advice to put it into your checked in luggage but as we know that's an expensive option when using Ryanair et al.
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Post by tinkerbell on Aug 17, 2014 14:10:20 GMT 1
Just an excuse for the staff to acquire free goodies I think.Can imagine them bragging to each other-look what I got today!
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Post by Elkay on Aug 17, 2014 18:24:09 GMT 1
My Swiss cousin begged me to make her some marmalade when I went for a long weekend a couple of years ago for her mum's funeral. Of course she is forgiven as she was really upset BUT, having begged me to make the marmalade she then said she didn't like it as she didn't remember it tasting like that. So, I took all 5 jars home in the suitcase, but she was so late getting me to Zurich airport that I couldn't check my case in - it was Air France so I was allowed to take it as hold luggage - BUT they confiscated all 5 jars as you can't take liquid (huh, my marmalade was set, not liquid!!) in the hold...............................The customs chaps were lovely and I'm sure they were going to try some they were amused by the whole story  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2014 18:28:14 GMT 1
I'd rather not take such a cynical view about the honesty of public servants. I think that you've all been contaminated by JohnP's rants concerning MPs 'on the make'...
I'd like to think that confiscations went to charity, but realise that such stuff is 'suspect' and that it must all go into landfill. Imagine the outcry if a jar of peanut butter containing explosives went to someone with mental health issues.
Take comfort, bisdu, that while they may at times be over-zealous we'd all rather they erred on that side than were lax.
I had a long-bladed knife confiscated once, I used it to cut turf, but they overlooked a machete, so I'm grateful for that. All human systems of control are flawed, 'cos human beings are flawed... |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2014 13:46:04 GMT 1
In 2010 we came back from Germany and we had bought loads of Curry sauce (its like a ketchup)we were told to put it into the hold. What made me chuckle they didn't say a thing about the set of cutlery in the other hand luggage bag. :)Wonder what they will say when I go over there soon.
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Post by Ali on Aug 19, 2014 9:49:31 GMT 1
Had a right chuckle this morning reading all these The only thing that I've had confiscated which I was miffed about was a cork screw. It was my favourite one that I always carried with me (just in case you understand....) I was pilot, my flying buddy was co-pilot, we were taking no passengers and off to Jersey for the w/end. Checked through Bournemouth Airport (coz we were going out of the eu) and they confiscated my cork screw  I did ask who on earth did they think I was going to maim with it as there were only 2 of us after all! |
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Post by bisdu on Aug 19, 2014 23:08:46 GMT 1
Had a right chuckle this morning reading all these The only thing that I've had confiscated which I was miffed about was a cork screw. It was my favourite one that I always carried with me (just in case you understand....) I was pilot, my flying buddy was co-pilot, we were taking no passengers and off to Jersey for the w/end. Checked through Bournemouth Airport (coz we were going out of the eu) and they confiscated my cork screw I did ask who on earth did they think I was going to maim with it as there were only 2 of us after all! Well Ali - its obvious innit? They needed your corkscrew to open the bottles he had already confiscated from someone else  |
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Post by Ali on Aug 21, 2014 9:32:38 GMT 1
Had a right chuckle this morning reading all these The only thing that I've had confiscated which I was miffed about was a cork screw. It was my favourite one that I always carried with me (just in case you understand....) I was pilot, my flying buddy was co-pilot, we were taking no passengers and off to Jersey for the w/end. Checked through Bournemouth Airport (coz we were going out of the eu) and they confiscated my cork screw I did ask who on earth did they think I was going to maim with it as there were only 2 of us after all! Well Ali - its obvious innit? They needed your corkscrew to open the bottles he had already confiscated from someone else Agggggggg  of course!!!! |
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I did ask who on earth did they think I was going to maim with it as there were only 2 of us after all!