basically they have the right to confiscate lil ol lady's nailcippers ( with file ) but allow on the 280lb guy behind her, who spent his whole adult life as the ultimate street fighting champion. just converted to another religion/cult and is hell bent to do some serious Grevious Bodily Harm 'on board' --err does that fit in the INVision screener?

Capo, unrelated to the question of this post, but what did you think of the Badia a Coultibono winery? It looks so enchanting, and I would like to do some hiking on the estate. Does it look as well as it does on its website? And the food, the same? Our other possible winery choice is Banfi (or something on that line, south of Siena).

Apologies, Patrick, for squeezing this one in on your post!

my example is my brother-in-law's brass, pointy, collar stays.
His set of stays was confiscated out of his carry-on bag. BIL said to inspector,
"then I'd better give you these," and he started to remove the ones he was wearing. Inspector said "oh, that's not necessary" and waved him on.

I had a small Swiss Army penknife attached to my keychain that made it through security in my backpack on several domestic flights. It was only recently confiscated by security at a Bruce Springsteen concert at Giants Stadium.