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GasCase Luggage Is a Hip Traveler's Worst Security Nightmare

January 15, 2010 at 1:05 PM | by | Comments (0)

Via If Its Hip Its Here, we discover German company Ivorilla's new line of metal gas can luggage. The GasCases come in two designs with the "diesel" version opening from the side and the "fuel" version opening from the top. The product page, when run through the magic of Google Translate, seems to indicate that the luggage line is targeted toward hipper-than-thou DJs, who can use them to pack around 50 vinyls.

Very clever. We'd even go so far as to say "neat." And for a certain niche customer who knows never to wheel these things into an airport, a nice little personal statement. But we're afraid that there are a few hipsters out there who might be tempted to take their free-stylin' ways into a civilian aviation center, and that's when things will inevitably go awry. Try to stand in line in an airport with a GasCase, and we anticipate things will go one of two ways...

In the best case scenario, you will be calmly approached by security and asked to explain why it looks like you're wheeling around a container full of fuel. Then you'll show that it's actually a piece of luggage. Then security will think think that you're intentionally trying to screw with them, maybe for your own fun or maybe to distract them. Strip search and 90 minute interrogation to follow immediately.

The second scenario is somewhat similar, except replace "calmly approached" with "shouted at from a distance" and "asked to explain" with "taken out by a sniper." Also there's no strip search or interrogation at the end.

Let's put this another way: if you had a piece of luggage shaped like a bomb, would you bring in into an airport? And if not—and please tell us your answer was "not"—do you really expect airport security to appreciate the subtle distinctions between "fuel" vs. "explosives?" Nonetheless: nice conceptual art.

[Photo: Ivorilla eBay Store]

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