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On Nov 24, 4:00 pm, wrote:
On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 11:34:43 -0800 (PST), "Jack."

wrote:
. A few minutes later, a guy empties his pockets and has a pair
of
nail clippers. Nail clippers. TSA informs the Soldier that they re
going
to confiscate his nail clippers

My BS detector just went off

TSA says
Items permitted in aircraft cabins:

* Pets (if permitted by airline check with airline for procedures)
* Walking canes and umbrellas (once inspected to ensure prohibited
items are not concealed)
* Nail clippers with nail files attached
* Nail files
* Tweezers
* Safety razors (including disposable razors)
* Syringes (with medication and professionally printed label
identifying medication or manufacturer’s name)
* Insulin delivery systems
* Eyelash curlers

Might be BS, I can't say for sure. Nail clippers being on the allowed
list doesn't mean the story isn't true. Children weren't supposed to
be aggressively patted down, but they are. Besides, I have seen the
confiscated items at an airport, and have seen nail clippers among the
items. Maybe the list changed?

Personal story... on a trip to Napa Valley a few years ago, they
confiscated a souvenir corkscrew at security when returning. It was
in my wife's purse. They did let us mail it back home. When we got
home and were unpacking, my wife reached into her purse to get
something, and her pepper spray fell out. She had it with her on the
plane out there and back, through security twice, and no one noticed.

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Nail clippers and cuticle scissors are now ok whereas the were prohibited
for the first 5 years or so.
Butane lighters are also allowed now and this is because it was costing too
much to dispose of them due to hazmat classification. When lighters were
prohibited you could carry 5 books of paper matches?


Reply:
Is show. Most of the TSA people are stupid. Could not make the cut at
McDonalds from what I observe. We went to Rome, about 6 years ago. SFO to
Rome, via Cincinnati. Reach in the backpack while in the secured area
having lunch. A 5" folding knife is in the backpack. Would have been nice
to take it out to cut the hard bagel, but just left it in there and got back
on the airplane. Look at how many weapons were smuggled aboard for
hijackings before 9/11. 9/11 the hijackers used the FAA rules to take over
the plane. Flight crews were told to go along with the hijackers. Will
never happen again. People will die, while the hijackers are overpowered
and most likely killed aboard the airplane. I think they should not only
allow knives aboard the planes, but if you do not have one, you get issued
one. You think a hijacker(s) will survive more than 45 seconds? May be a
crew member or passenger hostage killed, but probably at the most one.