Originally Posted by
WhyNotKnow
I can tell you why they were put at LGA. Mostly it is for the Central Terminal Building where stores pre-security will sell you a globe and not tell you they are not allowed through the checkpoint. When people go back to the stores they can't get a refund.
The policy is nationwide so I'm not going to argue it. The signs were put up as a service to the passengers.
This policy may indeed be nationwide, and I suppose its arguable that it is helpful to some domestic passengers, but those of us transferring from an international to a domestic leg that are forced to undergo tsa scrutiny on return to the US don't really have the option of rechecking a bag if a snow globe is found in our cabin baggage. All in all it's an idiotic rule and just one of the reasons why the dhs and tsa must be eliminated by any means necessary.