TSA Asking Idahoans Not To Pack Bludgeoning Tools For Air Travel

The Transportation Security Administration recently released a comprehensive list of the most common and forbidden Idaho carry-on items. I'm still in disbelief over one of the items that people in the Gem State are finding a need to take with them when traveling.

I never packed anything that would have held me up at inspection. I remember having small bottles of hot sauce poured out by airport officials one time.

I try not to fly. Flying scares the hell out of me, and I require loud music in my headphones and a few beers to numb me if I'm flying over three hours. After all of these years of post-September 11th reminders of what not to try to take on an airplane, apparently, a lot of people still aren't grasping the message.

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When I do have to fly, I usually am not going anywhere that requires me to stay long enough where I need to pack a suitcase, unless of course, I'm going somewhere with my wife and kid.

There was a time in 2003 and 2004 when the company I worked for required me to travel extensively in the United States, and this was still a time when people were extremely paranoid about flying due to the terrorist attacks just a couple of years earlier. I never packed anything that would have held me up at inspection. I remember having small bottles of hot sauce poured out by airport officials one time.

The TSA just released a list of some things that people flying out of Idaho keep packing and having to turn over to security. Knives, BB Guns, folding saws, AR magazines, slingshots, and sledgehammers--yes, you read me right--all made the list of recurring No-Nos for air travel.

Why on Earth are so many people trying to bring sledgehammers with them on airplanes?