gentlemen and ladies at T.S.A., easy solution, you break the lock, you stand the jerk for loss/repair of the persons property. no need to pass the buck to the airlines, you made the rule, you live with the results. before you whine about this, think,,before the rules were put in place, why was not ant thought put inrto the implemintatoin and results of the decision? havig been in the military for over 21 years, i guess it just made good scence{sp] to someone to do it in the name of security. sorry about the spelling.