Originally Posted by
WillCAD
Of course, the irony in all of this is that the TSA really WILL spend $50 million on knife guarges, when they could spend $50 on a few reams of paper and simply distribute a printable file with a drawing on it, and a colored rectangle 2.36"x1" against which a knife blade could be held. If any part of the blade sticks out of the rectangle, it's a no-go; so simple, even a cave-TSO could do it.
You're talking about the agency that couldn't figure out an expensive way to manufacture a one-page 'cheat sheet' of acceptable IDs (NEXUS included) to keep at the TDC podiums so they didn't have to call for a supervisor to locate the custom-produced, leather-bound, locking binder with the list of acceptable IDs.
Besides, they'd have to hire and train specialists to distribute the paper references to the checkpoints and someone would keep stealing them.....