PAX checks in a can of beer ;-)
 

Not sure where to post this, but PAX checks in can of beer as luggage !!

Qantas passenger checks in beer can on Perth bound flight | Daily Mail Online

Is this a start of a trend to see what other strange items can be as checked in !

Rubbish!

It's a well-known fact that cans of beer can't be carried in the hold because the pressure differential will cause them to explode. :O

At least that's what airlines tell cyclists about their bicycle tyres. :ugh:

I think it was in Sydney that I watched my backpack trundle off down the conveyor belt and then realised that my Leatherman Micra was still on my person. The checkin agent resourcefully found a small cardboard box and some bubble wrap and we popped it in that. So that was *my* smallest "suitcase" ever.

I did once see a loaf of sliced bread trundling around the baggage carousel at Glasgow Airport complete with baggage tag.

Surely a Leatherman Micra has a blade less than 50mm long and is therefore permitted in the cabin?

At least, as far as the rules say.

Though what the power-crazed mongs in "security" do is another matter, but they'll be wrong.

It's not uncommon here to see a small cardboard box stuffed full of pineapples trundle by on the carousel.

IIRC, whilst, in the UK, there is a blade limit of 6cm, no knives are permitted ex Singapore or Australia.

Personal view: You could do a lot of damage with a sharp 6cm blade so I'd ban ANY knife.

Any 20 storey flats nearby?:)

At least yer piece isnae gonny hurt ye very much if it hits ye oan the heid.
When I was a small boy, we used to go to the 5 storey Glebe Sugar Refinery in Greenock and shout up for 'pan sugar'. This stuff was like lumps of rock and could have been fatal if not adroitly dodged ;)

What about live shellfish?

When the Berlin Wall came down I leapt on a plane to get my bit of wall. I had to check my hammer and chisel in -- despite publicity saying you wouldn't have to -- and the airline (for the life of me, I can't remember which one, it was a charter run by the German Tourist Board) promptly lost them. Okay, the handling agent lost them, but you know!

Had to ask the friendly locals for bits of Wall and they were most obliging!

Miles off topic, but I got to sit in the jump seat on the way back on what the pilot said were the clearest night conditions he could remember in over 10 years.

Once left a live lobster in the galley; with stewardess approval.
Some time later a shriek announced that she'd been under the misapprehension that it was dead :}

Australian passenger checks in single can of beer on Qantas flight
 

https://resources.stuff.co.nz/conten...9811298599.jpg

Cool guy.... :D

https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/news/...-qantas-flight

Probably allowed it because it was for 'Export"...

They'll be wrong, and I'll have lost my prized Leatherman which has been about my person, and used daily, for twenty years. So I try not to chance it, although I have forgotten once or twice.

You can do a lot of damage with your bare hands, let alone a bottle of duty-free.

Handcuff the passengers, you know it makes sense.

... and on most flights of any distance, the first thing the crew will give you when on board is some headphones... a couple of metres of metal wire with which you could do significant damage to someone.....

and you wonder why I get so would up about airport security measures.....

TBH, the use of the garrote depends largely upon stealth, surprise and no-one else present to counter attack.