[virtuah]

I'm flying from Eindhoven airport in Holland to Stansted in the UK tomorrow morning, for a mates wedding on Sunday. I was intending to take my suit with me in a suit bag, as carry on luggage. The coathanger is wooden, with a metal hook, which terminates in a ball-end, so it is not sharp in any way.

I just gave the airport a call to check, explaining all this - and they said that I would not be allowed through security with a coathanger, even though its 95% wooden, with a rounded metal hook!

They did say however (and this is genius) - that I could take the suit bag as carry on, with my suit in it, but WITHOUT a coathanger.

Struggling to keep my cool, I asked the woman on the phone how she proposed that I keep my suit in any kind of usable condition in a suit bag without a hanger? [rolleyes] She declined to offer an answer.

Looks like I'll be wearing my suit on the plane tomorrow then......

[fotodemujerahldesnugdo]

I'm flying from Eindhoven airport in Holland to Stansted in the UK tomorrow morning, for a mates wedding on Sunday. I was intending to take my suit with me in a suit bag, as carry on luggage. The coathanger is wooden, with a metal hook, which terminates in a ball-end, so it is not sharp in any way.

I just gave the airport a call to check, explaining all this - and they said that I would not be allowed through security with a coathanger, even though its 95% wooden, with a rounded metal hook!

They did say however (and this is genius) - that I could take the suit bag as carry on, with my suit in it, but WITHOUT a coathanger.

Struggling to keep my cool, I asked the woman on the phone how she proposed that I keep my suit in any kind of usable condition in a suit bag without a hanger? [rolleyes]

Looks like I'll be wearing my suit on the plane tomorrow then.....

That crossed my mind too.
Todays airport security rules are [cursing]

[Justlovemy]

They are just cautious of the Ninjas with wooden coat hangers. You know the Ninjas: they'd kill everybody on an airliner using just an empty tube of tooth paste. [xmastongue]

[SergeyLisin]

Are you not allowed even a plastic clothes hanger?

My brother lives in Prague and flies often between the UK and there.

Every bloody journey, the airport staff find something wrong with his baggage.
Half the friggin' time they don't even know what the exact legislation is.


Retarded is a compliment for some of them.

I realise it's a difficult day and age we live in, but a level of common sense needs to be employed.

[StethyEntinic]

Can't you get a plastic one and break the hanger bit off, then use a piece of string or something to help you carry it?

But yeah I agree, just be glad you aren't going through Heathrow though, probably the most retarded airport in the world when it comes to luggage. [thumbdown]

[virtuah]

I don't believe I have a plastic coat hanger here. Even if I can find one, I don't think I'll risk it, as they'll probably take offence to that also.

Even if they did not, they'd probably then moan that I had a small briefcase-bag in addition to my suit bag.

[Sandra_18X]

I understand them.

I can kill you in 50 different way with a staple. Never mind a clothes hanger.

[SergeyLisin]

LOL it's a plastic coat hanger!

What are they afraid of?
You going on a rampage, shoving it people's arses!

You could probably hurt someone more with your shoe.
God help them if you use both your shoes as weapons.
Then they would truly be f*cked!

Everyone should fly naked for maximum security and embarassment!

[Natashasuw]

Even more moronic is that you can sometimes still buy glass bottles after all the pedantic security checks.

[virtuah]

Even more moronic is that you can sometimes still buy glass bottles after all the pedantic security checks.

Full of flammable liquid I might add.

[Pdarasenko]

I understand them.

I can kill you in 50 different way with a staple. Never mind a clothes hanger.

Ah but could you kill me with a staple if I had a clothes hanger?

[johnstylet]

I concur in the stupidity of "airports security" ,,, [cursing]

[Justlovemy]

. . .

Everyone should fly naked for maximum security and embarassment!

A good idea. Of course the flight attendants would be naked too so we passengers wouldn't get the opportunity to make a lethal weapon out of a skirt, a pair of napkins and a bra, in the style of MacGyver.

[Ecurrexchangess]

Ah but could you kill me with a staple if I had a clothes hanger?

Of course not. That's why he would attack you with a banana.

[Sandra_18X]

Ah but could you kill me with a staple if I had a clothes hanger?

I can combine Method 3, Method 36 and Method 42 and stop a .45 bullet let alone your puny clothes hanger.

[fotodemujerahldesnugdo]

A good idea. Of course the flight attendants would be naked too so we passengers wouldn't get the opportunity to make a lethal weapon out of a skirt, a pair of napkins and a bra, in the style of MacGyver.

That remind me on some cheap porn where exactly that happened (and many more).

[HedgeYourBets]

mmm flight attendants, yummers!

If im going down ,so are you

[Joesred]

Welcome to my world [thumbup] airport security sucks ****

[GDRussiayear]

tbh id buy a speedboat

[ptolerezort]

I dont like being this guy... But can you please refrain from using the term "retard", I have a little sister who is mentaly challenged and I am sick of hearing this term thrown around.