<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">While security officers were confiscating the repellent at a checkpoint in the international terminal, the spray went off and forced a half-hour evacuation of a couple hundred people from the area surrounding the checkpoint...</font>
You would think that the TSA would have a clue about bear spray. I've seen several references to bear spray on FT so I can't imagine it's unknown to the pointy heads at the TSA.
[This message has been edited by xyzzy (edited 09-29-2003).]