TSO protects passengers from water, risks the life of a trash can
Was making my way through DCA and forgot to take a half-full (half-empty? whatever) bottle of water out of my bag. The TSO confiscated the water. I asked if I could just dump the water in the trash can next to us and keep the bottle. He said, no, I'd have to go back out through security and reclear after dumping the water land-side.
He then proceeded to toss the bottle in the same trash can in which I had offered to dump the water. How this makes sense to somebody, somewhere is beyond me.
Mike