Comment by kstrauser
2 days ago
Ugh, I hate that for you.
Are you Sikh, by chance? If so, what do you do with that little knife you carry when you fly? I’ve never thought about that when I had the opportunity to actually find out.
2 days ago
Ugh, I hate that for you.
Are you Sikh, by chance? If so, what do you do with that little knife you carry when you fly? I’ve never thought about that when I had the opportunity to actually find out.
The knife is called a Kirpan, official TSA policy is there is no policy, it’s at the groper’s, pardon, screening officer’s discretion. https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/whatcanibring/...
That doesn’t sound like a roll of the dice or anything.
I’d wondered how that was handled, as a religious object. It’s obviously more important to the holder than my pocketknife is to me, and I have zero concern about a Sikh person carrying one anywhere. They’re not going to bust that out. And yet, it is a knife.
Probably the closest I’ve been that that was flying home from our wedding with the cake knife in my carryon. The TSA agent’s eyes widened when I hold him the shadow on the X-ray was a cake knife, but then I took it out and showed him how it was a ceremonial thing and wouldn’t break skin. Then the agent laughed and sent us along our way. A Kirpan isn’t so delicate, though.
Imagine if another passenger on the same flight was carrying a sharpening stone :)