Knowing the attitude problems that I have had with BWI TSA over the years, I follow a standard routine. That routine includes placing the electrician's snips (scissors in question), rescue squad credentials and cellphone alongside the laptop in it's bin, clearly separated from each other. Even with that method, my laptop bin gets pulled out, every time, so that they can validate the length of the snips. Every time, some TSO attempts to claim that will allow them "just this once" since they have a serrated outer edge (electrician's snips have two notches to permit easy stripping of wires). When I advise them that they are of legal size, they then proceed to tell me that they have to ETD the contents of that bin...

It's kind of amusing and gets a deadpan reaction (along with the requisite complaints for retaliation to the usual places) from me. I know it's going to happen and arrive 2 hours before every flight I take out of BWI.

Many of us have done that over the years. Just about every one of us that has mentioned it here has also mentioned that the standard TSO response is that the "rules have changed," "that web page is obsolete," or the old standby "do you want to..."

Some folks have gone as far as to pull it up on their smartphones and been told that the information does not apply to that particular airport. To paraphrase something TSORon has posted several times: some airports do, some airports don't, every airport is different. But, TSA has also "standardized" the security experience...