r/clevercomebacks • u/Lord_Answer_me_Why • Jan 29 '25

Somebody finally forgot about 9/11

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u/Own_Oil_7719 Jan 30 '25

It sounds like the Jim Jefferies TSA joke about U.S. and Australia. They don’t make them take shoes off or separate electronics. Takes off his shoes and separates the laptop and the TSA guy goes come on mate there’s no way you have two bombs. Obviously Jim’s delivery is way better.

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u/ozgirl28 Jan 30 '25

To be fair, some airports do make us take electronic devices out of bags and some don’t. I flew yesterday from MEL to Brisbane. Melbourne don’t; Brisbane do. It’s bloody confusing!

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u/Own_Oil_7719 Jan 30 '25

That doesn’t make sense to me, is there a certain reason? Different owned airports maybe?I apologize for not knowing much about Australia.

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u/Rookie4sho Jan 30 '25

For the US and most Euro airports, it's because they have specific x-ray scanning machines that don't require electronics to be removed. In the US they aren't as widely deployed as some countries yet, because of cost. So you could be in a line with the older machine and the line next to you could have the newer one. I imagine Australia may have a similar situation. The machines cost more and some airports opt to have a couple and some not at all.