Flying with a pool case

skiergirl55

skiergirl55

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How do you fly with a pool cue/case?

My husband is flying with a laptop and carry on bag only. Is it treated like a carry on bag? Do you pay extra? This has never come up before and the rules are all different now.
 
Has to be checked as luggage and go in with the regular luggage. Cannot be carried on, in any form.
 
skiergirl55 said:
How do you fly with a pool cue/case?

My husband is flying with a laptop and carry on bag only. Is it treated like a carry on bag? Do you pay extra? This has never come up before and the rules are all different now.
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A pool cue is considered a dangerous item/weapon by the airlines. You might want to check into a hard case to place it into while it bounces around with the rest of the luggage.
I have my case wrapped in a towel, then I place it in a nylon cover to a lounge chair. The kind you get with those folding beach type chairs. I have never had any trouble with damage. I have a pretty sturdy case for my cue. I would not try this with a soft case. JMHO
 
I use a rifle case. The plane could run over it and my cue wouldn't feel a thing:D.
 
It will get banged around so protect the outside of the case. If the cues are expensive insure the case when you check in your bags.

I lost 3 cues coming back from VF and the airline gave me half what they were worth. I've paid the insurance fees since.
 
I've used the porper travel case over my regular hard case without any issues over the last several years (knock on wood :smile:). I did have a problem once flying into New Jersey in which they took the case from the plane into a room for unusual sized luggage. I freaked out when I couldn't find my case on the luggage return. They told me to check in that room. There were several pieces of luggage, cases, etc. of different sizes and sure enough,mine was tucked in a corner. There was nobody in the room and no one check my ticket/luggage ticket on the way out either :frown:
 
Apparently an electric guitar is not able to be used as a weapon
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Apparently you haven't heard the music the kids listen to these days.
I don't know the name of the genre of music but its where you don't have to have any singing talent, you just scream into the mike as loud as you can.
Not a weapon, I beg to differ with you my friend.
Invade a country. leave the expensive weapons and ordinance at home, send in a regiment of rocker screamers. I guarantee you that the enemies will be on their knees with hands over ears begging them to stop playing.
 
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DoubleD said:
Checked only.

Apparently an electric guitar is not able to be used as a weapon, but a pool cue is.
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I just returned from Florida on a trip and noticed several guitars were carried on, and thought the same thing.

Why is it ok for them to carry on a guitar (not to mention it takes up most of an over head compartment) and we cant take our cues?
 
Funny, theres six strings on a guitar that can be taken off and used as a garote. Not to mention most guitarists carry spare strings in their cases.
A couple of metal dowels with holes in the middle, just tell security that they're finger slides. Wind the strings thru those and instant garote.
 
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Speaking of the ridiculous, I had less than an inch of hand lotion in a Clear 8 oz. bottle. It probably weighed about half an ounce compared to the bottle. I had to throw it out and couldn't take it on the plane.

Logic is a foreign concept to the TSA monkeys running the freak show. :rolleyes:
 
Blue Hog ridr said:
Apparently you haven't heard the music the kids listen to these days.
I don't know the name of the genre of music but its where you don't have to have any singing talent, you just scream into the mike as loud as you can.
Not a weapon, I beg to differ with you my friend.
Invade a country. leave the expensive weapons and ordinance at home, send in a regiment of rocker screamers. I guarantee you that the enemies will be on their knees with hands over ears begging them to stop playing.
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"Rocker screamers"? What "new fangled music" have you been listening/complaining about? Not the stuff I hear being played on the streets -- where you rap into the microphone while a continuous looped irritating sound plays over and over, on top of a simpleton beat. (Or, that of a ripped-off rock classic like the melody from an Aerosmith song played over a rap beat, with some rap lyrics booming over the top.)

Actually, the stuff you're complaining about is now "old school" by today's standards. (And you hear the new crap coming from a mile away, too -- you hear the bass of that simpleton beat, that thumpity-thump of a subwoofer as some jacked-up economy car with its second/fake exhaust pipe air-chiseled out to make it sound like a "lawnmower with headers" comes bouncing down the street.)

You need to "get with the times," Blue Hog ridr! :D

-Sean
 
Maybe the airlines changed their carry-on policy because of bad press. One irate customer had the talent to write this song and posted it on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo



woody_968 said:
I just returned from Florida on a trip and noticed several guitars were carried on, and thought the same thing.

Why is it ok for them to carry on a guitar (not to mention it takes up most of an over head compartment) and we cant take our cues?
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