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i had to take my rig out of its stashbag a while back, because upon xray scanning, they asked what in the hell that metal thing was inside the stashbag. i had to tell them about how i secure my rig into place because i had forgotten about the 8 inch metal spike that was in my stashbag. of course, i told them to please keep it because it was an innocent mistake and they obviously did so, uneventfully.

anyone have any weird stories of airport antics, up to and including banging out desert-trash sluts in the airport bathrooms?

getting out of a red mozda, blasting the titanic song and singing along at the top of your lungs while wearing sunglasses and a 3' sombrero at midnight in lax will get you some odd looks. side note, a 3' sombrero WILL fit in the overhead bin, despite what the flight attendant tells you.

674 has a great story about making the loves to a crack heads arm pit while on a 24hr layover in lax (dont worry, he used protection), those were the weirdest pics he's sent me to date. spoiler alert, moral of that story is "never go to mcdonalds sober"

Years ago on the way to Bridge Day I carried my two rigs on board with me, on the first leg of my flight no one asked me about my peculiar "backpacks." On the second leg I sat down next to this lil ol lady that was nosy, so I let her have it. She asked, "what are those funny looking backbacks." In a very serious manner I replied, "these are my parachutes, if and when the plane goes down, and those funny little yellow oxygen masks drop and your putting your head between your legs, I'll be jumping out that door!" She shut up immediately, and I laughed inside trying to keep a straight serious look on my face!

Try it, true story!

I act very scared, look around, and say
my shrink says it is the only way to fly.

I was carrying my rig inside of a backpack. At the check point they asked what i had in the bag. "Its a parachute, be careful because it might pop out and I will make you repack it." , they were convinced the backpack was the container lol. Never even opened it, just did a swab test and sent me on my way.

After spending the weekend in Twin, We were at the airport in Boise, and My Buddy wanted to pack his rig and we had time so he moved the seats around (down in the baggage claim area)and spread out his chute and started packing, This nosy lady walks by then just stops and looks, she looked like she just saw a terrorist packing up for a hijacking, The look was priceless, I was half expecting a visit from airport police, And with his Russian accent it would have been funny as hell.