Originally Posted by mad1

I'm in YYZ, taking a flight to europe. saw a guy in the security line in front of me. He slipped a shoeshine bottle into his back pocket, walked thru the metal detector, and then put it back in his backpack. smooth.

I freaked a bit and snitched on him - i.e. I pointed him and his shoeshine bottle out to the security guys manning the checkpoint. They just looked at it from afar and said it's ok, no worries. the guy noticed that i'd pointed this out and said ok good job or smth else to me. I said it's nothing personal. I hope he's not sitting next to me on the flight, that'll be awkward.

I feel bad, cuz I didn't want to get him in trouble on the one hand. But on the other hand, this did look a bit suspicious to me. I guess he was just trying to get the shoeshine through security even though it looked like it was over 100ml.

I also feel weird cuz I don't even agree with the 100ml limit and a bunch of other security theater we are put through. Yet here I am snitching on this most likely completely harmless guy.......

What do you guys think? Was this the right thing to do?