A blade is a necessary tool for a lot of people in everyday life. It's time to get over the unfounded fear and face reality like adults.
It's especially ridiculous because of how ineffective it is, https://onemileatatime.com/tsa-fails-tests-95-percent/. This is a worthless waste of resources that only serves to inconvenience regular people and give the masses some feel good security theatre.
And any battery can be used to start a fire.
The guy in charge acted all jubilant, like they successfully thwarted a hijacking.
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I'd even gone through the trouble of dremel'ing off the foil-cutter blade on a "double-knuckle" corkscrew in order to comply with the "no blades" rule.
I was able to exit the U.S. with it fine, but Mexico security refused it for simply the corkscrew part (and I wasn't willing to argue about it).
I'd just like to reaffirm pretty much every aspect of his experience and recommendations. It's great to see so many overlaps between my favorite travel-gear and his.
BUT they're really crappy corkscrews and I've sometimes had a lot of trouble getting the cork out and have ended up opening bottles in the bathroom because I was afraid I'd get wine flying everywhere.
And I've even had one of those confiscated in Spain.
I found it, most of a year later, when TSA finally noticed it. I had flown with it "lost" in the bag literally dozens of times.