Last week, a 120ml bottle of contact lens solution (with tamper-evident seal still in tact, to boot!) was stolen from me by the security droids at BRU. I must have flown hundreds of times with identical bottles since liquids supposedly became dangerous a couple of years ago with never a problem. The security droid in charge claimed that this was a "new rule" and that I should buy 98ml bottles and just refill them.

It was a one hour flight and I couldn't be bothered (and didn't have time) to argue, but tomorrow I get to spend the day on planes and I'd prefer to do so in reasonable comfort.

Is there really a "new rule"? Is contact lens solution no longer exempt like other liquid medical supplies? Or did I just have an unfortunate encounter with a stupid/misinformed/... person? (Possibly a shareholder in a large company manufacturing contact lens solution).

I'm fine with rules, even if they're ridiculous, but arbitrariness really sucks.