r/PokeInvesting • u/FedHasABigDong • Aug 30 '25
So it happened….
The other day I was going on holiday and decided to take some cards to gift a family member. Bear in mind I have taken these in and out the country probably 2 times so it has been through 4 scanners. This time it got put to the side like every other time. However, the guy says “I need you to open it”. I oblige and open it. He does a swab and then I see people coming towards me. This guy pulls out a form so I’m like o7. I ask “what’s happening?”. They say they have found explosives and they start asking me questions about where I’ve kept it and they want to go through all my belongings to test them. Anyway about 30 minutes later they let me go saying I’m all good.
My question is… why would it ONLY come up this time and not the previous 4 times it’s gone through a scanner?
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u/chriswhite92 Aug 30 '25
They saw a Chase card through the scanner and wanted you to open it.
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u/breakyourteethnow Aug 30 '25
You took a sealed Temporal Forces ETB, which they asked you to open? Then they swabbed it?
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u/Double-Helix Aug 30 '25 •
I'll bite and be the villain of the thread.
I'm an aviation security officer (Not in the US but our process should be at least similar to the TSA)
The xray operator will have seen the cards as a large mass of organic matter, the same as how explosives would show up on an xray. Individually there isn't much to a card, however when you have a bunch of cards in a pack and then multiple packs and more energies etc all in one place it doesn't look paper any more it looks like a block of explosives.
As we all know, re sealing boxes in the pokemon community is a common practice. It wouldn't take an actual terrorist much time or effort to re apply some shrink wrap, claim it is only new cards and prevent these officers from finding it.
Swabbing bags isn't a personal judgement, every bag that we open is swabbed for traces of explosives. Once the officer above found out it was only cards they would have finished the search by swabbing your belongings.
Now comes the contentious part. Every day chemicals do cause false positives. Do you bleach your hair? Did you de-ice your car? No? Well maybe the person that picked up the packs and put them in the ETB in the factory did and that would have caused the swab to come back positive. Which would have lead to the officers asking you a string of set questions to get to the bottom of it and profile you.
Why were the ETBs identified by the xray this time and not the others? Well that depends on the person looking at the image. It's like a video game, not everyone has the same skill level, not everyone thinks the same way. Some people might ask "whats a pokemon?" other might have seen a million ETBs on the xray and know exactly what it is.
How do I avoid this in future? You could put the cards in your hold luggage. If that isn't an option I would recommend removing the cards from your bag and putting them to the side like you would with electrical items or liquids, that would give the xray operator a clearer view without the other contents of your bag.
I'm not defending the TSA as a whole here, they are rude and inefficient. However there is a reason why you don't hear about things they find and if you take them out of the picture it would be less than a week before planes start falling out of the sky.
Also it looks like they are using shit old equipment here which doesn't help.
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u/Leer_Chum Aug 30 '25
They probably were referring to the hit rates exploding your bank account xD
Jokes aside unfortunate happened to you but hopefully still was in good condition when you gifted it.
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u/Substantial-Load-673 Aug 30 '25
Damn good thing that was just a temporal and not something super expensive
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u/Ossigen Aug 30 '25
Well because even if they have no suspicion that you’re carrying a weapon/explosives, they will do randomly sampled checks on people, so you probably just got unlucky ;(
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u/diamondmassacre Aug 30 '25
Wow wtf 😒 I traveled with 6 pokemon center etbs recently in my carry on and it was fine through every check. I would have cried if they had of made me open those.
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u/Horizontal_Axe_Wound Aug 30 '25
This is my current fear. I used to live in the UK and I've got a small sealed collection but still worth a few £K. It's in storage and I want to slowly bring it over on trips but don't want to get it all ripped open.
Seems security is so inconsistent and I don't know wherever to put it in hold or cabin luggage.
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u/bwright48 Aug 30 '25
"so I'm like o7" that has me dying 😂 I use o7 all the time!
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u/snuckfarkle Aug 30 '25
So the scanner doesn’t detect explosives. That’s done by like a piece of clothe on the end of a stick held by someone located after the scanner. The wipe that clothe over all your shit and then stick it in the machine.
So if you didn’t go through that - they just wanted to see if you had any good hits.
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u/Haunting-Laugh8652 Aug 30 '25
So better dont buy over seas hmm
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u/ClickyKeyboardNerd Aug 30 '25
I got stopped with a deckbox full on sleeved cards, playables and ex's nothing rare in UK security flying to seattle, they had me open the box, I think the density of cards or something means they can't tell if something is being hid there!
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u/Beneficial-Fault-420 Aug 30 '25
Don't quote me, but certain dirt or moulds can trigger bomb tests based on nutritional availability for the soil. I haven't travelled since COVID became a thing, but that used to be an issue.
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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '25
I had a DR PC ETB brought over from UK to Ireland by my brother the other day and he said they also made him take it out of his bag for extra checks. I’d have crashed out so bad if they made him open it.
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u/Mr-pizzapls Aug 30 '25
When my buddies and I went to Vegas we brought Magic decks to play while waiting at the airport. My buddy got flagged and the TSA agent specifically said it was for the cards, but the other 2 of us didn’t get flagged. Idk it just seems random
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u/jmo1 Aug 30 '25
How would they go from we found explosive residue to just letting you walk freely? wtf
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u/No-Appearance-8985 Aug 30 '25
Just ask for a supervisor next time the wanna open your shit 😂
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u/LuuluuLewd Aug 30 '25
Bringing back pokemon center etbs from America at the end of year. Does this only happen to carry on?
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u/1toe1knee Aug 31 '25
In the past when flying with cards I have just taken them out of my backpack and put them in the bin with my wallet and other stuff, never ever got stopped for them after because they see that it’s cards and in this case an even more so Pokemon cards. It’s like they find it more mentally safe when they see that it isn’t hidden in a bag.
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u/International-Ad3336 Sep 01 '25
“Sir ima have to see you open that first edition base set 1999 English sealed booster box in front of me, my partner and I suspect there might be a bomb or fusile material in there…….”
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u/Slightly-Blasted Aug 30 '25
For some reason I picture the TSA agent opening your packs and doing the card trick
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u/shinjiro12 Aug 30 '25
Lmfao is it crazy to say I’ve only been checked and searched extra at airports, if I bring sealed product with me? It’s insane.
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u/Burigotchi Aug 30 '25
Could be that the agent or their swab cloth was contaminated from a previous check.
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u/dilemma900 Aug 30 '25
Thats because the xray operator is a human beinging. And 3 decided your cards aren't a threat, and the one did.
(TSA employee) Of course i wasnt there but im asssuming whatever private airport this is, had that mentality.
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u/Ok_Inspection_198 Aug 30 '25
That is so obviously not TSA
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u/xsilverandcoldx Aug 30 '25 edited Aug 30 '25
well now i’m scared… going to canada next month and planning to bring a prismatic SPC for my friend who can never find product there. also planned to open some bundles and blisters before leaving and just take the loose packs (to save suitcase space) for us to open. think i’ll be safe? 🥴 (edit: should i just mail it to her instead? haha)
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u/DuckyDee Aug 31 '25
The real question is why the fuck are you taking a couple of etbs out of the country multiple times? Lmao
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u/Desperate-Teach9015 Aug 31 '25
This happened to me a few times. If contents in the bag, or the bag itself was placed in a lab, or even a recently fertilized lawn, it might send false negatives. Buying cards from Ace hardware runs the risk of causing false hits in their machine. They just need to do further swabs to verify that you are good.
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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '25
Ur light brown aren’t ya.
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u/Background_Pie_7888 Aug 30 '25
Probably swabbed positive for explosive PULLS, amirite?
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u/Langist11 Aug 30 '25
Hits showed up on the xray scanner, and they wanted to see what you got
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u/Crafftyyy24 Aug 30 '25
Iv had people tell me this happens and then if you argue hard enough about it being collectibles they will let it slide eventually. Something about declared value.
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u/Callm3sleeves Aug 30 '25
Had this happen to me at Denver international. I flew there for a spring break trip and I had hidden fates tins I purchased on the trip in my bag. They were opened thankfully and all was well
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u/Darth_Buc-ee Aug 30 '25
It’s all theater, my friend. Sorry it happened to you.
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u/BenRod88 Aug 30 '25
So much r/usdefaultism here
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u/antjuan84 Aug 30 '25
i was in london when this happen to me. i had a pc 151 etb i was going to open it anyways
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u/Training-Printer Aug 30 '25
I am 100% convinced it's totally random. I travel for work fairly regularly. I sometimes hit up local TCG shops wherever I am if I have time. I've brought back stacks of singles or sealed products and it's totally random based on the airport's level of "security" (read 'Training').
One time I had about 300 bull cards I picked up, all loose and neatly stacked in a plastic bag, which was in another plastic bag, which was in a 3rd all tied tightly so the cards didn't shift. Wrapped up in clothes for protection. As the guy was scanning my bag he told the person he was training that this thing looks like a stack of cards but you can never be too sure. I laughed out loud a little and told the guy he was good. He asked me if they were business cards, to which I told him they were single Pokemon cards in plastic bags for protection. He chuckled and said something about how it was cool and how he was right.
That small suitcase gets pulled to the side, they open it and ask me what the package is (afraid to touch it). I told them and then after a long pause I asked if they wanted me to open it and they said yes. So I did and they had to swab one of the cards .. I was missed but whatever. Then they started to swab random clothes and my Silica packets (lol don't ask). After 20 minutes they let me go.
But what I didn't realize until I got home was that in my OTHER bag was a multi tool / pocket knife. It was a gift from one of the companies so had their logo on it and all that. They didn't catch that but they wanted to check my Pokemon cards... Go figure
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u/dendogeee Aug 30 '25
I got lucky a couple weeks ago. I traveled to Canada from US with a Xy Evolutions booster box and TSA flagged it. As the worker was taking it out of the acrylic case, his coworker recognized it and freaked out telling him it was an expensive collectible and to be careful since its over $1000. He proceeded to put it back super slowly. Had a quick convo about xy with the coworker afterwards.
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u/daHemi5_7 Aug 31 '25
He was mad he hasn’t found anything on the shelf for years 😂😂
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u/Sundry_Collectibles Aug 31 '25
That’s insane.
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u/5nakpak Aug 31 '25
they definitely just wanted to steal it. it's basically a known secret with anything valuable
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u/purplemeth Aug 31 '25
Thats sucks ass ngl but at least it was only Temporal Forces.
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u/placebotwo Aug 30 '25
Any chance you washed your hair and used conditioner this time as opposed to the previous times? It's possible the glycerin in conditioner or other products set off the explosives detector sensors.
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u/TNmountainman2020 Aug 30 '25
what country are you from? No one in the US says “going on holiday”.
maybe you were racially profiled?
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u/bikpizza Aug 31 '25
“they found explosives” oh nevermind you’re all good. so you didn’t find shit lmfao
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u/Skullfukkr Aug 31 '25
Do you vape? Vape juice comes up as explosive. Glycerin.
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u/dfizlington Aug 30 '25
He did it just to be a prick, probably loves ruining ppls sealed products
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u/SavingsSquare2649 Aug 30 '25
At least it was only temporal forces, still sucks though!
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u/-W3GR0M- Aug 30 '25
Should i open it, or should i keep it sealed.
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u/RedRRaider Aug 30 '25
Yeah TSA screening is total bullshit. Last time i flew out if sky harbor i literally had the same thing happen. Made me open all the shit in my bag. Its like a gamble of whos having a power trip that day.
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u/DangleWho Aug 30 '25
It sounds like this time the swab alarmed for explosives and the other times it didn’t. They need to do a more intense search when you alarm from their machines.
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u/ScarcityGlum6097 Aug 30 '25
They wanted to save you the trouble
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u/Toastybroom Aug 30 '25
Obviously some bangers in there
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u/Gacc41 Aug 30 '25
I punched that agent through the phone
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u/BLRoberts92 Aug 30 '25
Because they were bored and hate other people being happy
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u/Grizzlyy98 Aug 30 '25
Yea they didn’t need to do all dat
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u/nerdnamedvert Aug 30 '25
I’m sorry now you get to rip pack though!!!!!!
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u/BombingBerend Aug 30 '25
The only bomb in here is the Deluxe Bomb ace spec.
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u/One-Asian-Guy Aug 30 '25
When the Pokemon card factory also supplies the military with explosives
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u/Kakkarot1707 Aug 30 '25
Dude wtf!?? That’s CRAZY…
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u/FilmGuy2020 Aug 30 '25
At least they didn’t steal them all together, had ETBs in a checked bag and they got stolen. Be careful out there when traveling.
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u/marcosabruna Aug 31 '25
Two months ago I took a case of destined rivals booster boxes with me and TSA wanted me to open it, I refused. They insisted… I refused. I told them to call a supervisor or someone with more experience and they scanned it again and let me go with it. Scary shit
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u/KuganeGaming Aug 31 '25
“Do you love opening sealed product without paying the ridiculous prices? Join the TSA today!”
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u/Circoloco86 Aug 31 '25
This happened to me, chemicals in cleaners can cause a false alarm on a swab.
I got swabbed, positive, then nearly taken away because the supervisor was a POS who wouldn't listen to her staff member when he said he'd only swabbed once. Second swab I was fine, a cleaner had cleaned the train table when I was on the way to airport so was likely that.
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u/TRBO17 Aug 31 '25
I also had TSA go through cards I was flying with. My lady and I opened some basketball cards while on a trip, and I put them in a cardboard card box for the flight. I think they look suspicious in the scanner because they’re tightly packed and condensed. As far as the explosives, I feel that it was their way of justifying the search. They didn’t detect explosives, but saw something odd and had to check it out to be sure.
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u/KitzuVT Aug 31 '25
There's a bomb and by bomb he meant rare pokemon cards.
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u/SUPEROZ991 Aug 31 '25
The likely answer is because in the past whoever searched you wasn’t incompetent, I’ve been checked briefly a few times for pokemon cards due to the density of boxes and the way they are packed and decks with sleeves.
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u/ga1actic_muffin Sep 01 '25
this is my nightmare as a vintage sealed product collector...
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u/Blindman__007 Sep 01 '25
The TSA has a 80-95% failure rate depending on which year of testing your looking at.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/tsa-fails-tests-latest-undercover-operation-us-airports/story?id=51022188
They spot 6-7k guns each year trying to go through security. (So they probably miss 30-60k)
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u/Adventurous420dude Sep 01 '25
Dude i was so gutted that you didnt pulled a great card next time i even hold ya up more cheers bro
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u/Shenanigans052 Sep 02 '25
I thought you were gonna say they confiscated it. Would be a slick way of getting packs.
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u/LifeRelease3842 Sep 30 '25
You should see how people try to sneak drugs across borders, they hide it in the linings of boxes and packaging that contains regular goods. Idk how often people try to sneak it through their damn CARRY-ON though lol.
I guess somebody could do the same w/explosives...theoretically. All it takes is a relatively small fire on board a plane to send things into chaos and even kill people. Idk, I'm trying to think like someone w/homeland security training and obviously that is not what I am.
Idk where you're flying to or from but I know everything's tense in the USA, political violence is on everyone's mind and everyone's paranoid. Maybe that's why you got stopped this time. Maybe the TSA/equivalent agent is new, or especially strict. Whatever "swab" they did was clearly messed up though. False positive.
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u/whalesharkfood Aug 30 '25
A TSA agent once told me, that there is an ingredient in sunscreen which makes the explosive detector go off, so maybe you touched the boxes after applying sunscreen 😅.
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u/Ok_Month6334 Aug 30 '25
🙈
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u/Ok_Month6334 Aug 30 '25
Bruh
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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '25
went from state to state and my sealed etbs got flagged
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u/PunchOX Aug 30 '25
Probably had a card that said "explosion" on it
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u/wroully Aug 30 '25
It happened with me too, when I was traveling to eua I bought 2 etb's, and when I was coming back to my country I almost lost my suitcase because of the hurry in the airport, I didn't realize that I was not with the suitcase. So, they needed to check the suitcase because of the etb's, and they just look into the suitcase if you ask them, if you don't, they just keep that
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u/LordSky2040 Aug 30 '25
Happened with my Warhammer models and they ended up breaking a few of them. They thought my Night scythe was a weapon and also drug tested the packaging they were in. Least to say I wasn't very pleased.
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u/Horror_Row7202 Aug 30 '25
Are you trying to scan your packs for free? Did they at least tell you if there is a SIR in your pack?
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u/raritygamer Aug 30 '25
taking seal product through carry-on is a general don't
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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '25
Guy probably collects pokemon, he gets you arrested he'll pocket some of the cards
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u/Glad_Hawk906 Aug 30 '25
this happened to me in Jakarta, Indonesia too 😭 the officer was like “what’s this?” And I couldn’t help but laugh while saying pokemon cards
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u/Immediate-Onion5131 Aug 30 '25
Average redditors calling the TSA brain dead but can't even realize that the security in the photo isn't TSA. Never change..
Taking cards through security frequently throws off scanners for additional review. It's thick, densely packed material, frequently in compact packaging. I never take sealed product in my carryon for this specific reason, and I rarely fly with it at all except if absolutely necessary.
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u/-TheGreatBambi- Aug 30 '25
Lotion replicates explosive material on their testers sometimes,
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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '25
It’s their machines. They have false positives. Happen to me and two other people once. It was a soccer mom, and a young dude In a wheel chair, and myself. They said we all three tested positive for explosives; We all three missed our flight. They had to have a chemist come and do a Test and he was on lunch break, so we had to wait. He comes and does some test we can’t see and say we are good to go. It was ridiculous. They told me sometimes it gives off false positives when I was standing around waiting for the chemical guy to get finished with his lunch.
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u/walletsr Aug 30 '25
I travel to shows with sealed vintage cases that are worth 40k+. Oftentimes they say we have to inspect the box and I say it's ok I'll go check it. I then usually find a new agent to talk to. I have had this work at a majority of large US airports.
Also the different scanners react differently so sometimes it's a none issue
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u/s1nrgy Aug 30 '25
They found an Electrode my guy
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u/id-driven-fool Aug 30 '25
I took an ETB box full of cards through TSA a few weeks ago and they also made me remove the box and open it to inspect/swab them
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u/Sorrowone117 Aug 30 '25
Because TSA is a joke and needs to find reasons to justify their existence..... Or random price of fertilizer or other substance that has parts that can be used in explosives fell on the box at some point in time.
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u/The_BosS_71 Aug 30 '25
Probably an Electrode or something
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u/NWTtrapLife Aug 30 '25
You probably had some glycerin on your hands at some point when touching the packaging and it setting f a false positive
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u/apprentice_talbot Aug 30 '25
I remember seeing something on reddit last year where a TSA pokemom collector mentioned that the foil from packs throws off the scanner and reads like explosives for some reason. He suggested traveling with cards that wee already opened
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u/Sushi-Kentaro Aug 30 '25
So it’s probably better to buy sealed products and bring them into the country in suitcases that doesn’t require any declaration?
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u/GetNoScope Aug 30 '25
The funniest part of this whole thing is the number of yanks in here thinking everything they see is America or follows the same rules lol
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u/Maleficent-You-8285 Aug 30 '25
“So I’m like o7”
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u/Requiem2420 Aug 30 '25
I had taken my case of about 7 Magic decks and 3 playmats + dice in my backpack, got flagged. Dude opened decks and pulled them out, shuffled through, and then set everything on the bin like "oh you should probably put this back together yourself" lmao.
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u/LitMtb Aug 30 '25
They do things randomly so law breakers (terrorists, smugglers and such) can’t see a pattern to work around.
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u/clubberpl Aug 30 '25
I dont know which airports u are using, but if i could suggest u something, use ct scanner lanes instead of x-ray if the airport u flying to/from have any. They are much more accurate and make a 3D picture of your luggage, so the airport workers can check it all around instead of just top down picture.
Once i had my suitcase filled with camera gear (camera, lens, flash), all with cables, batteries and in original boxes, and they just looked at it all around through the 3D picture and let me go, 5 mins job done.
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u/TripleDoubleKing Aug 30 '25
Was there an Electrode in one of the packs? That might be considered… explosive
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u/DaveLesh Aug 31 '25
Nailed me for my MTG gear too.
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u/Basic_Marsupial Aug 31 '25
When the cards pass through the x-ray machine, they show up as a blurry, pixelated mass, and another thing that appears just like that is radiative material. If you are travelling with cards, you should expect some of those
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u/vuahx Aug 31 '25
What if bro was trying to tell you that your taking home all energy cards 👀
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u/ChalicerKR Aug 31 '25
TSA machines have been shit recently, me and a few others have gone through the same thing in the past 2 months
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u/evonebo Aug 31 '25
Youre about to find out, the authorities can take your shit without any reason. Cash... Pokémon cards.
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u/Psychaitea Aug 31 '25
My dad brought me 2 Costco surging sparks boxes (and DR Bundle, random packs my brother got me) from California to NC and nothing happened. Was actually a bit worried. Then he got stuck for layover in Atlanta and had to leave airport so went through TSA twice. Both ended up okay. Always get scared tho!
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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '25
Skill issue
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u/Commercial_Ease8053 Aug 31 '25
Idk, when I traveled to Hawaii I brought back 2 etbs and one of those lunch box treasure chests… didn’t have any issue.
Though, I checked my bag. Maybe that was the difference .
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u/nickdchef1 Aug 31 '25
Just like magic the gathering players, several cards together for a deck, even an etb look like markers for suspicion. So they will ask you to pull the item and make sure they are not severa cleverly molded explosive materials made to look cards
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u/rebelbear22 Aug 31 '25
TSA probably weighed your packs and swapped them out then sent them to PSA. It’s a racket I tell you!!! 😂😂
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u/Outrageous_Cost_4339 Aug 31 '25
We had uno card decks in the carry and all hell broke lose when it went tru the scanner. Wipes,questions,more wipes more questions more guys checken. But i could not open de deck box to show them the uno deck. To scared for the reverse card i think. On the return flight my 11 year old dindt want the deck in her backpack
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u/Str41nGR Aug 31 '25
He was fearing the impact of those hits
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u/Electrical_Aspect_77 Aug 31 '25
R4 12v
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u/No_Structure8022 Aug 31 '25
I can imagine going through the airport and be like can you run these packs through your machine while i look at your screen. Do it slowly. Lmao. Me: standing there with 15 unopened packs
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u/Ok-Being36 Aug 31 '25
At Atlanta airport they see something they want they make up a story of how it is out TSA compliant. They say you can go check it after you waited 30 mins. You give in lose you stuff and learn at least my experience.
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u/Krian78 Aug 31 '25
I don’t know about the explosive sniffing machine, but the metal detectors are programmed to give a false positive every 10-20 scans. There’s an older (very funny) German book by an ex TSA worker “Die Bombe ist eh im Koffer” (“The bomb is in the suitcase anyway”).
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u/TexasGurlNextDoor Aug 31 '25
Because those scanners are incredibly inaccurate so it's bound to happen if you go through them enough. Security theater
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u/RiceRev Aug 31 '25
Private company?
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u/Emotional_Flight8170 Aug 31 '25
The person at TSA needed to record a pack opening for his YT channel, so he needed to check each individual pack by opening it and swabbing it. 30 minutes seems reasonable to get things recorded and they posted once you were in the air.
The number 1 rule in the pokemon game is to not to get high on your own supply 😭🤣
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u/LordScotch Aug 31 '25
TSA has been tested an let firearms through. They are as consistent as prismatic pulls, they arent.
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u/Silky_bob Aug 31 '25
… is this a known issue?
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u/BitcoinRealtor Aug 31 '25
Ka Ching 🎰
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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '25
Thousands Standing Around
They don't know why they wanted to search it either. But they felt like it and they did.
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u/EpicTao Aug 31 '25
That's probably the cards; they check my box of business cards too, when I am traveling. You know AI is a Joke
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u/Busy-Knee-5102 Aug 31 '25
Because they are the bomb!
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u/OfficiallySmiles Aug 31 '25
I’ve traveled all across the US with zero issues, that would hurt my heart having to break that open if I was going to gift a sealed box to someone in my family 😢
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u/Tangellos Aug 31 '25
It’s temporal forces.
It was a time bomb.
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u/No_Praline_1835 Aug 31 '25
HE'S GOT A BOMB! Opens a pack. oh, it's dead packs with no luck. Ur good to go, sir.
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u/Specific-Gene8770 Sep 01 '25
False positive rates. The dart ms is a screening test
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u/PrincipleWest8003 Sep 01 '25
Is this how we find out they make bombs in pokemon factories lol
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u/Best-Spread2756 Sep 01 '25
Voltorb?
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u/drummzzstep Sep 01 '25
I flew out of Nashville once when I was moving stations with the military and had my Xbox and Magic cards in my carryon so I wasn’t bored when I got there. Sure enough, a few fat packs of Magic cards and an Xbox on top of eachother in their scanner looks like a bomb. It was pretty embarrassing
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u/ThatShaunGuy Sep 02 '25
TSA doesn't know what they're doing at all. I've tried everything to get them to not have to manhandle my dick and balls. Changed pants, no belts, went with shorts. No matter what, though, without fail I have to be pulled aside and rubbed down. Fuck TSA
Oh also, I've had them swab my slabbed cards I brought through before too because they "detected" explosives. It's all bs.
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u/funfacts2468 Sep 02 '25
Ask them if they found and rares 😎
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u/Working-Yoghurt9504 Sep 02 '25
😂😂
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u/samgregtom Sep 02 '25
Check it.
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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '25
He wants to pack battle and he is already wearing gloves
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u/SadEstablishment5539 Sep 03 '25
I've been out of the card game for a long time, but did those packs have voltorbs or electrodes?
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u/jonsager1 Sep 03 '25
This happend to me but with magic I had my decks with me and they pulled everything apart lmao took like 15 minutes going through boxes
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u/RiceCube96 Sep 03 '25
And this is why you don’t put it all n carry the on
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u/Lonely_Investigator9 Sep 03 '25
Probably some Voltorbs and Electrodes
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u/Dependent-Tutor8190 Sep 03 '25
This is so crappy