(Now wondering if fishferbrains and exbayern are the same person....)

If this had happened on UA or most other US carriers in the US I believe that some of the responses would be different here. The OP again was NOT removed from the flight for having nail clippers. He was removed for a different reason. We only know his story, but apparently he represented enough of a risk or a disturbance to be removed from the flight.

- exbayern (who besides all the rest happens to be AAExp, but admittedly has not stepped foot onto an AA plane in more than 2 decades)