Just wrapped up a three week tour this past Saturday night in Madison, WI and flew home yesterday morning. Originally myself and two of the other musicians were going to ride the tour bus back home, however at the last moment our boss decided to "reward" us by purchasing flights so we could avoid the 2+ day drive.

Long story short, we arrived at MSN very early Sunday morning (about 4:30am) for our 6am flights, and we were the first people to go through the security checkpoint (we actually had to wait about 20 minutes before they opened). As all of our other belongings are riding home on the tour bus, we all were traveling with only one carry-on each. Our keyboardist's laptop bag got called out for a "bag check" after passing through the x-ray. An agent went through it pretty thoroughly (I was standing next to him gathering my stuff), and nothing was found so off we went.

Later as we were sitting at the gate my buddy was going through his bag looking for something and found his rather large Swiss Army knife in the side pocket! We couldn't believe it made it through undiscovered! He was quite happy as he completely forgot it was in there and would've been bummed to lose it, but we were both reminded instantly how big the holes are in the TSA's fishing net.