Re: Security checks for crews are getting to the riduculous!
reminds me of a rather amusing situation which occurred last summer. I'd been camping some weeks before and mistakenly left some 'kitchen cutlery' at my cousins place on our way home. Some weeks later I swung by on the way home and collected the 'utensils', stowing them in the side pocket of my backpack - which I also use for nightstops when I'm rostered for them.
So the next time I actually did a nightstop I turned up at security (which is a pax screening station that crew are allowed to use) completely unaware of what I was carrying. The gasp of the xray machine operator was audible to the assembled pax as was his somewhat excited tone when summoning his colleagues. The entertaining part (my heart having already missed several beats) was his supervisor trying to shut him up and hussle me away in the direction of my plane, still in possession of a couple of knives which were somewhat longer than DfT rules would allow...