LogFAQs > #929787395

Ugh.

I don't fly very often, so this was definitely a first. And not until I did some Google research....did I realize how common this shit was.

The worst part was that I purchased all these art books, graphic novels, and animation tidbits......and they were all sealed in plastic in my luggage. I didn't even plan on opening them until I got home.

Well, TSA kindly broke my luggage lock and unwrapped every single book. Just left all the plastic in one big ball on top of all my clothes with the books just sitting there.

What the fuck was the point of that? Why did they NEED to look through my books? They could see the cover of the books through the plastic. Did they search it to make sure I wasn't hiding drugs in the pages or some shit? Wouldn't the x-ray machine have revealed that to them?

If they were interested in the CONTENT of the books, what were they expecting to find? Manuals on how to make portable nuclear bombs? Pedophilia stuff? I don't get it.

I'm very upset and feel very violated. They left a pamphlet thing in my luggage saying it 'might' have been searched.

Um. It was DEFINITELY searched. They unwrapped all my damn books and broke my luggage lock.

And I can't even contact them to demand a replacement lock for the one they broke.

Apparently they are "entitled" to break luggage locks to search the contents for any reason, including no reason.

How is this even a thing?

It seems illegal.
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