Originally Posted by
oneofthosepeopleyouloveto hate
The similarity to an IED when viewed on the X-ray.
The TSA's philosophy in recent years seems to be to prohibit things that LOOK like bombs, apparently in the hopes of making real bombs more recognizable.
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So the "typical" IED is spherical?
Or are cubic snow "globes", if there is such a thing, permitted?
And prohibiting such alleged benign look-alikes stops the real IED makers (whenever they do start challenging TSA style security) how exactly?
Brings up the laughable concept of a TSA policy maker with a cartoon vision of an IED actually thinking, well, if we ban snow globes, no-one will try and bring one through the check-point, and the spherical IED will be obvious even to the X-Ray operator chatting on their cell phone. These guys would give the addled a bad name.
You
know the rules are idiotic when an honest attempt to explain them makes them appear even more moronic.