Originally Posted by
I-Like-To-Bike
What do you think will happen if the people who ask about the contents of your package are TSA or some other personnel acting in official capacity and you get caught in the lie? BTW, what is there to argue about? A bicycle is a bicycle and a tariff is a tariff.
In all my travel, I've NEVER been asked by TSA about anything in my
checked luggage. You never meet the TSA people who examine checked baggage, those examinations happen beyond closed doors, or in separated areas where passengers aren't encouraged to watch, much less participate.
In any case, what you tell an airline baggage agent isn't passed on to the TSA, unless possibly you tell them something related to security. Airline personnel don't even ask about the contents of bags that conform to the size and weight limits, so unless you volunteer that it's a bicycle, they have no reason to think about that.
In any case, your question is a hypothetical not grounded in reality. It's a classic ILTB ploy whereby you raise BS arguments simply to derail threads.