Kermit Chair & TSA

I am flying to yellowstone next week. Anyone know if my Kermit chair will get through TSA?

Thanks,
Tom

If it were me, I'd send the chair via FedEx or UPS or do without. I would not try to check the chair as luggage or try to carry it on the plane.

Tom
Check with airline also TSA website
I had people returning from Alaska with 5ft hiking sticks, somehow they got through

Your Kermit chair should pose no problem with security screening. I'm assuming that you are transporting in the standard Kermit chair nylon bag. The TSO on the line may ask what it is, but it's not something that's on the prohibited item list. Believe me, people bring, or try to bring some really crazy things through the screening line. A Kermit chair should be of little or no real concern.

I am planning on putting in my carry on. Maybe I should put an old Swiss Army knife next to it or sprinkle it with tampons?

My question is, why shouldn't it get through? What is it about the Kermit chair that causes you concern?

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Kermit chair &TSA

Just pack the ammo in a separate bag if you're really worried about clearing TSA with a CHAIR !

Friedle

Airport security, especially in foreign countries, pretty much make up their own rules - some of which are not posted on the extensive list of prohibited items. Last year I had a Bic lighter confiscated in Cuba.

Best idea is to have the measurements of your folded chair and then phone ahead to ask if you can carry it on the plane or have to check it. Having stuff confiscated because you broke the rules is a real pain in the ass - and your Kermit chair is worth a lot more than my Bic lighter.

@tsa

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Airport security, especially in foreign countries, pretty much make up their own rules - some of which are not posted on the extensive list of prohibited items.

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True story, no "ethnic posturing" involved.

Three weeks ago, checking luggage through TSA station in San Luis Obispo, California, I observed two gentlemen of obvious middle eastern origin (by appearance and language), check camping gear through to the passenger waiting area. Included in their camping gear were a number of 18" long knock-down tent pole sections and metal tent pegs.

Passed right on through with nary a blink of the TSA officers.

And I can't carry on my pocket knife.. .. . ..

@askTSA

LOVE it! I've had great results from asking travel questions to airlines via Twitter. MAkes perfect sense to also be able to ask the TSA, and any other entity via Twitter and/or social media. Let alone simply check a website and look for FAQs or search the site.

Then again, a great general rule of thumb: when in doubt, send it in your checked luggage. I've had my checked luggage ransacked, but never once had any problems with anything I'd packed in there. Personally, I'm of the mind to reduce, as much as possible, the gak I tote around in airports and while distance traveling. Less is more.

But if you just HAVE to tote that kermit chair (or whatever else) along.... there's a handful of ways to figure it out. Including asking on a forum, which is, by now, a sort of "old school" "social media" thing.


Have a great trip!