Originally Posted by
Trollkiller
I'm sorry the snow globe prohibition is all my wife's fault. When she went to visit her birth mother for the first time, she bought a couple of snow globes. She could fit one in her Freedom bag but could not fit the other. The TSO that prevented her from boarding with the second globe was kind enough to take it from the screening area and give it to my wife's sister.
I am guessing a higher up saw that TSO's kindness as an inconvenience that needed to be Kipped in the bud.
That is the only explanation I have ever heard regarding the snow globe thing, and I think that, given all other TSA rules, it is a very believable one. Unless a TSO here can come up with a more logical explanation why snow globes are prohibited regardless of size, I am going to stick with TK's explanation.