Originally Posted by
ORDofcr
You may bring a bottle of contact solution that is over 3.4 ounces if you are saying it is medically necessary. Remove it from your bag, claim your exemption. It will be screened via some sort of liquid screening and if it passes the test you are permitted to take it inside and on board with you. I have only told one person they couldn't take their contact solution, it was over sized and alarmed liquid screening, I told her it was going to alarm and when it did she would be subject to SSSS screening; She said "I want you to test it." There simply isn't enough personnel to do additional screening on every persons water bottle or can of hairspray.
Don't test the system. You will end up like that Hays woman with her civil fine for interference. There are Civil Fines associated with "testing the system."
what you described about declaring the medically necessary bottle of contact lens solution greater than 3.4 ounces is how the system is supposed to work (n.b. supposed to work) but you and i both know that there are tso's out there who, for lack of a better term, "don't play by the rules" and will deny simply based on size and that "consistent inconsistency" by the tsa from one airport to another is what "miffs"
many passengers. it needs to be done the way it is supposed to be done (i.e. per the tsa's own sop) and fixed at those airports that don't do it the way it's supposed to be done.
now i'm a bit confused by your situation with the female pax and the alarming hairspray....did you say "no, it's too big and it will alarm" or did you test it and it did alarm? the way i read it is that you said no, she said test it and it alarmed but i'm not sure. if it alarms, it's a done deal and it gets confiscated but if you say, it's going to alarm and the pax says "test it", don't you have to test it? you can't make the determination simply by looking at the container-you have to test it.