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Old Jul 17, 2008 | 1:27 pm
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Originally Posted by DoubleJ
Ran into a similar situation in CUN a few days ago. The Cancun security officer flagged my teen daughter's bag and wanted to look inside. Turns out the 2-and-a-half inch long pair of tweezers was a no-no. He did a great pantomine of getting stabbed in the stomach by the tweezers to show how dangerous they were.

I felt like pointing out several potentially more lethal non-prohibited items in my own carry on, but fortunately resisted the urge.
A ballpoint pen is just as lethal as a pair of tweezers.
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