Penny had half a small tube of toothpaste, some hand sanitiser and a bottle of perfume in her hand luggage. Going through security at Guatemala Airport, the man picked on her to search her bag.
He took out those items, and insisted they must be in a zip-lock plastic bag. Of course we’d have been happy to ditch the toothpaste and sanitiser, but not the perfume. We were not allowed to simply carry this in our hand.
Now, I always thought the plastic bag rule was simply to help the security staff but putting all your explosive lipsticks together for easy cursory glances.
But apparently not: it seems the zip-lock bag is a super-strong barrier which will contain any explosion from deadly hair wax.
The security man insisted we leave the items behind and go through to the departure lounge where we could purchase a zip-lock bag to put them in.
We went back with our bag, put the items in it, then put the plastic bag straight back into Penny’s hand luggage. Safe in the knowledge that should her toothpaste ignite, zip-lock will save us all.
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