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youbuyshirt Explorer Member

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I haven't flown in a long time, so I'm not familiar with the regulations. Can you bring bug spray in your checked baggage? I have a medium sized 300 ml can that I like to take in case I have roaches in me cheapo hotel room.

Also, in Thailand, for international flights, do they do the same Naked Body Scanner routine that they do in the US? And can you opt out and elect to be groped instead?

Goompa Advanced Member

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You can take bug spray in you stowage , that is in checked baggage .

I regularly send my wife with a couple a cans of kill-em-dead , bug sprays from the land down under.

never had a problem , yet .

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Farma Platinum Member

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Aerosols and pesticides are considered dangerous goods and shouldn't be carried in checked or hand luggage but check with your airline on their policy. Bug spray is cheap and readily available in Thailand so why bring it.

Body and metal scanners are in use at Suwannaphum but with a medical condition I am sure you could request a grope. The last time I passed through Suwannaphum I had no choice of scanner as the official manning the scanner queue directed passengers to one scanner or the other.

David48 Star Member

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It depends on the propellent.

Certainly not in the carry on.

If it's got this symbol

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Could get pulled up if it's in the check-in luggage.

riclag Diamond Member

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Why bother when you can buy them everywhere?

A bottle of "Repel" 40% deet content,cost $4.50. I haven't seen anything as strong on the shelves in 7.I brought 5 plastic bottles of the pump spray from the states. I enclosed them in a sealed plastic baggie in my checked luggage.I must spay myself in the house and outside.It sucks but its better then getting dengue fever and a 20,000bht fee for a short term stay in the hospital here since I stay for as much as 8 months.

harrry Star Member

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It depends on the propellent.

Certainly not in the carry on.

If it's got this symbol

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Could get pulled up if it's in the check-in luggage.

I was going to post this too but read the IATA dangerous goods regulations and find that they are permitted in hold luggage but not carry on.

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transam Legendary Member

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I just had a non aerosol spray deodorant removed from my carry on bag. Guy said it had 200 ml written on the bottle. I said it is near empty, ....in the bin sir...sad.png

Ajaan Silver Member

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I just had a non aerosol spray deodorant removed from my carry on bag. Guy said it had 200 ml written on the bottle. I said it is near empty, ....in the bin sir...sad.png

He was doing his job. Don't break the law and expect us to feel sorry for you. You can carry one quart plastic ziploc bag filled to the brim with containers not exceeding 100ml capacity. This is international law. Deal with it and don't be a crybaby.

transam Legendary Member

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I just had a non aerosol spray deodorant removed from my carry on bag. Guy said it had 200 ml written on the bottle. I said it is near empty, ....in the bin sir...sad.png

He was doing his job. Don't break the law and expect us to feel sorry for you. You can carry one quart plastic ziploc bag filled to the brim with containers not exceeding 100ml capacity. This is international law. Deal with it and don't be a crybaby.

Sorry I upset you today........have a beer............rolleyes.gif ...................smile.png

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David48 Star Member

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It depends on the propellent.

Certainly not in the carry on.

If it's got this symbol

49.jpg

Could get pulled up if it's in the check-in luggage.

I was going to post this too but read the IATA dangerous goods regulations and find that they are permitted in hold luggage but not carry on.

I got pulled up maybe 18 months ago.

Before Air-Asia allowed through bookings from Australia to Thailand, you had to collect your luggage and 're-check in' at KL.

I had two canisters of the stuff that to spray into your tyre if you get a flat.

Had that symbol as the propellent.

Aussie customs didn't bat an eye lid, but the lady at KL ... 'No Sir, can not'.

Like anything ... some say yes, some say no.

David48 Star Member

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I just had a non aerosol spray deodorant removed from my carry on bag. Guy said it had 200 ml written on the bottle. I said it is near empty, ....in the bin sir...sad.png

Yep ... I got caught with that.

1/2 empty sunscreen lotion 125ml bottle.

... in the bin. My skin hasn't been the same since!

transam Legendary Member

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I just had a non aerosol spray deodorant removed from my carry on bag. Guy said it had 200 ml written on the bottle. I said it is near empty, ....in the bin sir...sad.png

Yep ... I got caught with that.

1/2 empty sunscreen lotion 125ml bottle.

... in the bin. My skin hasn't been the same since!

My problem was at check-in, AA said my luggage was 2 kg over weight rolleyes.gif , so put my hand in my case a drew out my soap/toothpaste bag and put it in my carry on. Still a bit over weight but they said OK. My next connecting flight hand luggage scan picked up the spray. sad.png

Dare not tell you about the .44 Magnum round on my key ring, that has been there for 20 years w00t.gif . They took that too. sad.png

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HeijoshinCool Platinum Member

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I just had a non aerosol spray deodorant removed from my carry on bag. Guy said it had 200 ml written on the bottle. I said it is near empty, ....in the bin sir...sad.png

He was doing his job. Don't break the law and expect us to feel sorry for you. You can carry one quart plastic ziploc bag filled to the brim with containers not exceeding 100ml capacity. This is international law. Deal with it and don't be a crybaby.

And here is exactly why I stopped posting for a few months, to take a break from people like you. First day back reading, here you are, waiting.

Shoulda waited another day or two.

Sure would hate to be one of your students.

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el jefe Gold Member

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I just had a non aerosol spray deodorant removed from my carry on bag. Guy said it had 200 ml written on the bottle. I said it is near empty, ....in the bin sir...sad.png

He was doing his job. Don't break the law and expect us to feel sorry for you. You can carry one quart plastic ziploc bag filled to the brim with containers not exceeding 100ml capacity. This is international law. Deal with it and don't be a crybaby.

Sorry I upset you today........have a beer............rolleyes.gif ...................smile.png

@transam -- you should expect that answer. What was the point of your initial post?

transam Legendary Member

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I just had a non aerosol spray deodorant removed from my carry on bag. Guy said it had 200 ml written on the bottle. I said it is near empty, ....in the bin sir...sad.png

He was doing his job. Don't break the law and expect us to feel sorry for you. You can carry one quart plastic ziploc bag filled to the brim with containers not exceeding 100ml capacity. This is international law. Deal with it and don't be a crybaby.

Sorry I upset you today........have a beer............rolleyes.gif ...................smile.png

@transam -- you should expect that answer. What was the point of your initial post?

If you don't understand it then I think you should forget it eh.rolleyes.gif

harrry Star Member

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I just had a non aerosol spray deodorant removed from my carry on bag. Guy said it had 200 ml written on the bottle. I said it is near empty, ....in the bin sir...sad.png

He was doing his job. Don't break the law and expect us to feel sorry for you. You can carry one quart plastic ziploc bag filled to the brim with containers not exceeding 100ml capacity. This is international law. Deal with it and don't be a crybaby.

It is not international law. It is US law although many but not all countries apply it.

xen Gold Member

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I just had a non aerosol spray deodorant removed from my carry on bag. Guy said it had 200 ml written on the bottle. I said it is near empty, ....in the bin sir...sad.png

He was doing his job. Don't break the law and expect us to feel sorry for you. You can carry one quart plastic ziploc bag filled to the brim with containers not exceeding 100ml capacity. This is international law. Deal with it and don't be a crybaby.

Sorry I upset you today........have a beer............rolleyes.gif ...................smile.png

Transam, I could see the humour in there. Thats the type of thing that would happen to me and i never intensionally break the law and i respect all the authorities.thumbsup.gif

Jay Sata Platinum Member

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Why haul all that stuff halfway around the world?

You can find it everywhere in Thailand.

Duty free shops always amuse my.

People paying twice as much in King Power for whisky they can but cheaper in a 7-11.

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riclag Diamond Member

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Airline?

My spray can of WD-40 got confiscated by MRT security.

They probably had a use for it.

Yes, Personnel Lube in Thailand! Some people are too shy to ask for the KY at the Pharmacy IMOP (lol) .

Gonsalviz Platinum Member

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Airline?

My spray can of WD-40 got confiscated by MRT security.

They probably had a use for it.

Yes, Personnel Lube in Thailand! Some people are too shy to ask for the KY at the Pharmacy IMOP (lol) .

KY? They have a whole array of personal lubes in Thailand if you look.

crazyguyinthailand Senior Member

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This is what I like with Thailand, something goes here if you just smile. back home they are very strict no mater what, but here sometimes its OK with liquids over 250ml or what the legal amount is. shaving kit and all those small things It has been OK so far for me. but my gf had to give away her little metallic pimple needle. so its about luck I think smile.png

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youbuyshirt Explorer Member

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Aerosols and pesticides are considered dangerous goods and shouldn't be carried in checked or hand luggage but check with your airline on their policy. Bug spray is cheap and readily available in Thailand so why bring it.

Body and metal scanners are in use at Suwannaphum but with a medical condition I am sure you could request a grope. The last time I passed through Suwannaphum I had no choice of scanner as the official manning the scanner queue directed passengers to one scanner or the other.

Did we go to the same Suwannaphum Airport? I did not have to go through any naked body scanner, nor was I groped, on my recent international flight. Just went through a metal detector. (unless it was not a metal detector but a body scanner, I'm not really sure what those scanners look like, but I'm pretty sure it was a metal detector because I just walked through, did not have to stand still like I was getting x-rayed)

Also, the bug spray in checked baggage was no problem.

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