I was traveling back from a retreat in Washington State last week and dang it TSA took my 14 year old Gerber multiplier. I forgot to take it out of my EDC backpack and put in my checked baggage.

As soon as the lady pulled me aside I knew it had to be an EDC item I'd forgot, I was thinking, "Please, please, please, don't be my Mk1."

I was hoping it'd be a lighter but alas my trusty Gerber got binned.

What prized possession has TSA taken from you?

I was travelling from Toronto to Vancouver, and had a 4 inch cold steel tanto voyager folder tucked into some hidden zippered compartment in my messenger bag. Didn't even know it was in there. I asked the security lady to keep it but she was kind enough to suggest I mail it back to myself, which I did.

Maybe they should open up a small post office in every airport so that people can have the option of mailing their stuff home, or mail it to their destination, instead of having it taken away.

See I thought that to. For a fee they could pretty easily set up a station for someone to box up items, copy info from your boarding pass and then have a runner take it to the counter.

Watch eBay. Assuming no one takes it from the bin, it will end up there.

They sell on ebay.... but in large lots I`ve seen.

My copy of "War of the Worlds". I used my boarding pass as a bookmark and forgot about it. Then when I realized what had happened, I gave the security guys the whole book. The line was so busy and hands were changing so quickly I got the pass back, but not the novel written by Wells.

I was stuck watching a really, really bad in-flight movie on the way to Chicago. Sucked to be me that day!

Keep a padded self-addressed stamped envelope in your travel or EDC bag (yes I know that the postage keeps changing). If you forget to leave something at home, stick it in the envelope and mail it at the airport.

I was boarding a plane to go to a fire and had my work tools with me(knife,light,sharpener and a SAK. both of the knifes have been with me through the Air Force a bunch of years ago. they were found by TSA and went into the bin, If I was not on an assignment I would have missed the flight and recovered my knifes.
but thats not the way it happened. one of the knifes was a german Cat knife that I got when I was over there, not expencive but a lot of memorys.

They've pretty much taken away my will to fly.