What Does Aiport Security Do With All of Your Confiscated Beauty Products?
Ever wonder what happens to your expensive face wash once the TSA confiscates it? That's what a Q&A in The Atlantic made us think about when a reader wrote in about an airport security person deeming her L'Oréal Studio Line Invisi-Gel too cool for the school that is domestic travel. She documented the fate of her product, writing: "I'd rather lose the $5 gel tube than pay a $40 bag-check fee. 'Enjoy it,' I said, concealing my irritation. She [the worker] replied, quietly, looking away from me: 'I will.'
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Do TSA employees get to keep this stuff?" The answer is, yeah, kinda sorta. While the official word is that, of course, it's all "disposed of," the street version is, heck yeah, we pocket the stuff. Ethical? Not so much. Then again, it beats your $200 eye cream going in the trash can. That's a relief, right? Um, right?
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-- Erin Flaherty
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