Originally Posted by dwsnc

I was bringing back some lighters for friends back home as cheap little gifts, there were 8 as I recall. I had put them all in my carry on. So after the personal interrogation, your carry ons are x-rayed again before entering the gate area. The gate area is completely inspected also before people are allowed to enter. Anyway, the guy working with the crew on the x-ray machine says to me, "you have 8 lighters in this pack back". I said, "yup". He said, "that is too many" and I said they were gifts. Of course, unable to decide on his own (Dutch trait, call in the supervisor at any sign of non-conformance) They talked for a moment and the supervisor said, "put 4 in the back pack and 4 in the duty free bag"