A woman has vowed she would "never come back" to the UK after airport security forced her to throw away £236 ($300) worth of toiletries<br /><br />Chloe Jade Meltzer, 29, was transferring through London's Heathrow Airport when she said she experienced the "brutal" rules of the country's airport security.<br /><br />Travel blogger Chloe was forced to get rid of half of her toiletries because they would not fit in the standard plastic bag.<br /><br />Chloe, who was travelling from San Francisco, California, USA, to Cotonou, Benin, West Africa, said: "London Heathrow has a history of losing bags and I could not risk not having my bag.<br /><br />"So I had to take all of my toiletries, which were all within the 100ml limit.<br /><br />"However, last time I connected through Heathrow, I had the same exact toiletry bag and they allowed me to fill up multiple bags with all of the same toiletries that I had on this day.<br /><br />"But this time they gave me one tiny bag and I was required to only fill that one bag."<br /><br />Chloe said she had to quickly make a decision and keep her most valuable products. <br /><br />During the chaos, Chloe also lost her sunglasses, which she says were valued at £173 ($220). <br /><br />She said: "I had to pick and choose which were most valuable to me and which I needed the most because unfortunately. <br /><br />"My connections were pretty quick and I knew I was not going to have time to re-purchase any of the items."<br /><br />Things worsened for Chloe when she tried to take a video of the incident, but claims she was told she was a security threat and asked to delete the video.<br /><br />She said: "I tried to take a quick video, considering I am a travel blogger, and when I did that a random employee came up behind me. <br /><br />"I think he was in charge or overseeing and said that I was a threat to national security and force me to delete the video and then go to my deleted as well.<br /><br />"I totally understand this but the way that he did it was very abrupt and it was pretty dramatic and scary considering I didn’t realize there was an issue was filming since there are no signs around saying do not film while getting your bag scanned."<br /><br />Although Chloe has vowed to never come back to the UK after her latest experience, she acknowledges that her reaction was over the top.<br /><br />She said: "Please note this was recorded on zero sleep and is incredibly dramatic.<br /><br />"I do take responsibility for this but It does not make it any less of an unfortunate situation."
