Benchmade Rescue Hook on Airplane?

[LooseGrouper]

When they first forbid all knives on airline flights, I felt naked and vulnerable. So I picked up a generic copy of a Cross pen/pencil set that I take with me on flights. No longer feel quite so vulnerable, but I still feel naked.

I've carried a knife of one form or another everywhere but public school since I was 10 years old. Being raised to believe that forgetting your knife is worse than forgetting underwear, I'd like to have some kind of cutting tool with me when I fly. I think I already know the answer to this, but is there any chance that it would be legal for me to carry a "rescue hook" on a plane with me? I mean, I guess I could "fishhook" someones lip with it if I was in a malicious mood, but I honestly can't see a viable offensive use for the cutting edge on this thing.

Does anyone have any specific knowledge of this? I'm not looking to sneak around any laws or regulations. I just want to find some legal means to have a useful tool within easy reach. Barring the rescue hook, I've heard that they will let you carry safety scissors (like they give you in kindergarten) on board. Would it be illegal to sharpen the blades on those to a useful edge?

If this is an old topic, please forgive me, but nothing showed up when I performed the search. If this topic is just plain dumb, well I have no excuse for that.

 

[P95Carry]

LG - not much help but - way I see it is - anything ''pointy'' or anything remotely 'sharp'' and TSA sez - NO!! I confess the Rescue Hook of which you speak is not something I am able to imagine.

That said - chances are TSA will disallow anything they darned well fancy - but oh hey - now all of a sudden it IS OK to have a Zippo - it must tho be new and empty of fuel.

Boy - am I glad I don't have to fly much any more.

Minefield? - probably!!

 

[LooseGrouper]

I've attached a link for those of you who are not familiar with the Rescue Hook. As you can see, its uses are somewhat limited, even if it is (by some miracle) legal.

http://www.benchmade.com/products/product_detail.aspx?model=5

 

[P95Carry]

Haha - what!? With that ground section for cutting?? IMO no way Jose!!

TSA will even have ya if you just cut your finger nails and finished them with sandpaper sticks!!!

 

[RoyG]

I guess you could claim it was a cigar cutter.

 

[45R]

TSA would probably say NO just because it looks evil

 

[BenW]

You could get to the airport early and try, then if TSA says no, you have time to go drop it back off at your car or give it to a friend so it doesn't end up on Ebay.

I'm in Colorado for training this week, and figuring I'd do some evening hiking, brought along my first aid kit, forgetting I had EMT shears in it. The TSA people at my local airport spent a good ten minutes handing them back and forth trying to decide if I could take them. The TSA regs clearly state blunt or plastic tipped shears are okay (I looked it up after the fact). The TSA folks at my small regional airport were nice about it, but I'm worried enough about TSA at Denver that I'm thinking of dropping them in the Fedex so I don't have to worry about being harrassed.

In fact I've actually been thinking that when I have to fly for work, that I might start Fedexing my pocket knife and leatherman to my hotel and then back home again. I'm another one of those people that's been carrying a knife since he was a little kid, and I walk lopsided without one.

 

[sarhog]

In fact I've actually been thinking that when I have to fly for work, that I might start Fedexing my pocket knife and leatherman to my hotel and then back home again.

Are you travelling without checked luggage? If not, why not just put the knives in your checked bag?

You could get to the airport early and try, then if TSA says no, you have time to go drop it back off at your car or give it to a friend so it doesn't end up on Ebay.

Bad idea. Bringing a prohibited item to a security checkpoint - even accidentally - is illegal.

Good luck.

 

[BenW]

Bad idea. Bringing a prohibited item to a security checkpoint - even accidentally - is illegal.

It's not on the TSA prohibited list, so the worst they can do is simply say he can't carry it on the plane.

On the Fedexing, beside's the fact that my office would be paying for it, I don't like to check baggage for short business trips to big airports. If I go on vacation for a longer period, I generally do check baggage and include knives and all sorts of stuff that makes TSA cringe.

 

[ETCss Phil McCrackin]

Allowing an OBVIOUS non-offensive rescue tool onboard an airplane would require a liberal sprinkling of common sense, a trait which at TSA is neither required nor desired.

 

[hso]

Nope, they won't let it on.

Put a small first aid kit in your carr-on and a pair of EMT shears in it and they'll let it on. I've carried such a kit through Atlanta, Oklahoma City, JFK, etc. Just make sure that there is nothing with a point in the kit.

I travel frequently for work and usually less than 3 days and always check a bag and that bag always has more than one knife in it.

 

[Soap]

The last time I flew my bag's lock was cut and TSA searched it. It was the first time that I've travelled with anything bigger than a pocketknife in my bag, this time I had a Chinese Chef's knife, a Spydie, and a Camillus demo knife. I'm guessing that they didn't like the cleaver-like appearance of my fine chef's knife.

Anyway, I wouldn't worry so much about the hardware and develop the software by learning how to fight empty-handed and with improvised weapons like your pen.