Same has happened to me twice in Austin. The worst. Had to have APD intervene once. Then I (actually my daughter as well who didn’t have a problem with her firearm) - SEVEN months later - get a letter from TSA saying I’ve committed a crime??? , can no longer do pre-check, and if it (?) happens again I will be charged with a felony. And there is no recourse. Hold on here- We waited 25 minutes at the designated place at the end of the SW check in counters - TSA cut my locks - and we both get brutally hassled and later the letter. If APD hadn’t intervened we would have missed our flight and I probably would have escalated the situation. Assholes.
Knock on wood, I've not had this level of issue. I've mostly flown with a Glock case in my checked suitcase with a big scary-looking padlock around the handle of the Glock case which prevents opening the case. I've also flown with multiple handguns in a Pelican case, also without issue. I had issues in Austin back when they hand-searched bags with guns (a LONG time ago now) and a TSO not liking the loaded mags that were secured in a mag holder in the aforementioned Glock case. My suitcase goes on the regular belt EVERY SINGLE TIME everywhere except the few airports that insist upon special handling just because of there being a gun in the bag. Those places I've been to recently are DEN, COS, and PIT. DEN makes you be escorted halfway across the terminal so you can stand there while they CT scan the bag and determine that there is in fact a gun in it. COS hand searched last I was there about 18 months ago. PIT was like DEN just a 100' walk not halfway across the terminal. Aside from COS, once they quit hand-searching firearm-containing suitcases at AUS, I've not even had my suitcase opened and have certainly never had a lock removed. All that to say, what is packed in the Pelican case and how that TSA wants to see inside so bad?
I use PacLock trailer hitch latch locks when I travel with my weapons. The locks are aluminum body, steel shackle bolt, steel pin(s), have replaceable bolts/cylinders and the best part is the bolt is HIDDEN when attached to a case. The locks were stupid expensive off Amazon (over $200 for 4) but they were so tight on the latches that they didn't move at all.
It’s interesting to see just how fast you’re doing that. One read? Last time I tried it on my room keys it took a few minutes and I had to scan the door a few times too. Is that where the SAM plugon helps?
Awesome video. I recently ordered the 1615 Air Case (without locked hatches) because it was almost $200 cheaper than the 1615 Travel. These new locks go for ~$50. So assuming I can actually get these installed, that's a savings of $150. FYSA: Pelican offers military & veterans discount, so that's another $52.04 saved.
From the fire side in regard to the water system around 27 min. I have seen a handful of systems trigger after a fluctuation in the water pressure. Could be water hammer or loss of pressure from old systems past the check valve. The water doesn't flow from the sprinkler heads, but because the pressure fluctuation it triggers a fire alarm.
There was a fire yesterday 6/6/2024 at the Hyatt Place in downtown Knoxville. It originated in a 7th floor elevator maintenance room. It is amazing that because of everything you talk about there were not any injuries. The fire was contained to just that room. 50 years ago, that could have been a devastating fire, now it barely made the local news. The hotel has some smoke damage from where firefighters had to open doors but the multiple systems worked perfectly to allow everyone to get out. You didn't talk about elevators here but that system kicked in and platformed themselves at the lobby with doors open; even with the controls possibly being on fire.
Tangentially related titbit, (and I'm sure this is similar for major public infrastructure facilities all over the world but I don't know about those!) At national rail and London Underground stations in the UK, fire alarm systems have a two-stage response to a single call point being triggered to avoid the absolutely massive kerfuffle that would be caused by having to evacuate for every accidental or malicious triggering. Initially, the system makes an automatic announcement over the PA to alert personnel who either confirm the need to evacuate or cancel the alarm. It's the same for all stations, so if you ever hear "Will Inspector Sands please report to...." in a British train station then you know what that's about! I remember when I worked in one of the retail units at such a place, if we ever heard the announcement outside the normal weekly test time we'd start making a mental list of what we'd need to do if the actual alarm went off. Never did though.
Great talk! I used to be front of house manager in a large museum with a conference centre attached, so I've seen just about every possible way of defeating fire safety provisions anyone has ever come up with. Events staff using a fire exit corridor as a storage closet was a classic, personal favourite was probably when I saw a fire extinguisher missing from its hook, went to look for it and found it propping open a fire door. But the most shocking example was when the museum converted a basement into a brand new flagship gallery (cost in the milliions, fancy architects, etc) and then decided it needed a new gift shop kiosk just outside the gallery entrance. Fine, but then someone (not the architects clearly) OK'd converting the bottom of the stairwell into a stockroom. Apparently nobody realised this was a no-no and I was the first one to express any sort of concern! In the end the "fix" was to designate that stairwell as "not a fire exit" which meant we had to reassess all the building capacity numbers and redo tons of signage, rework our evacuation sweep routes, and on busy days, monitor the visitor numbers in one half of the building to ensure we didn't go over capacity. Absolute nightmare for such a stupid reason. And not even worth it since they ended up closing the gift shop kiosk after the first exhibition because it didn't even take enough money to pay for the retail assistant staffing it.
Cruise ship fire alarms are interesting things in case anyone wants to know. You can set them off just by having the bathroom door open and taking a hot shower so if you need an excuse for that, there it is. Our room attendant stopped in and was like oh this happens all the time! and they ignored it.
Thank you for the update. Have not flown in 10 years and finally getting time to travel, everytime delta shoves there credit card at me and my neck hair quivers. Alaska sounds like a better choice. Customers are king ! Some CEO's need to go back to kindergarten since they never learned one thing in life!
With my bank you can get them to set up your card so that it won't allow you to use tap to pay - but the card always came from the same bin with antennae, and they tend to forget you asked them to have tap turned off after a year anyways :(
My origin of this microniche of life is from the days of addiction. I had 24 hours in my day and I learned to lock pick and I got in trouble. Big trouble. After getting a very heavy-handed spank I got clean and sober 12 years ago but it still kept up the hobby of lockpicking and everything in that genre including your videos. I absolutely love this and everything you've put out. I just watched your last 2 hour video and it was fascinating. I'm a contractor now so building code and fire safety is kind of in my wheelhouse. Keep up the good work
I had this stuff happening with the American carriers back in the late 80's. Watched my baggage get loaded on in Atlanta and then another baggage vehicle came and opened up the compartment underneath and took all my bags! I told the stewardess and pointed to it out the window as she could clearly see I was 100% correct. She forced me to take my seat and shut my mouth. Several weeks later they busted a ring in Atlanta who had houses set up to sell stolen baggage items. It's like phone fraud. No one in government cares to do anything about it.
When will this guy learn that no one cares if the talk is long, or about "boring stuff". Everything he touches and talks about is gold. JUST FREAKING GO!!! Just talk until the sun comes up!
Consider how bad the airlines and TSA are with your freedom and rights. They apparently don’t have consistent policies and procedures but won’t hesitate to make you an example.
1:22:00 Pro Tip: All autofocus sucks. If you are in an autonomous filming situation such as this, *always* manually set focus during your setup, and then *turn off* autofocus.
I would only like to add for the kids in the cheap seats that you *never* want to get the water from a sprinkler system *on* you or anything you care to keep. Even when building maintenance is actually done (which, especially in residential/multifamily facilities, it rarely is)according to proper intervals, that's still an entire *year* where all the water in those pipes (which can be a surprising amount - diameter of pipe X 4 multiplied by the length = volume of water in the pipe)is just sitting around stagnating. In other words, *it is f!!cking *nasty-ass* water*. You will not be wanting to keep *anything* that water ever touches.
There was a situation where the elevator door opened but there was no cab sadly the person stepped into the elevator shaft and fell 15 floors and died. Why did this happen? I thought safety measures are in place so something like this never happens?
> "maybe you think differently of me now" yes i do, i think more highly of you. definitely gonna pick up one of the pride door straps before the next time i need to travel.
WTF, you can't make this spit up!!! How many channels is there to get the weapons through, It's a simple process and they should already know wtf to do.
That's why I prefer international emergency exit signage. It clearly distinguishes itself from regular non-emergency routing signage. The American system mixes those two up, making it really hard to properly sign different traffic flows for emergency and non-emergency situations.
Airline Agent on radio: "I don't know what is going on." Yeah, we established that a long time ago. Hopefully the airline got fined for being late pushing back from the gate.
I would first copy MY NFC data to an RF transceiver device, like a flipper, and then take out the nfc on the card. Then, i can just use the Flipper for tap to pay, and with the added convenience of being able to turn the NFC transmission on when needed, and turned off afterwards. No sneaky sneaky NFC theft.
