Originally Posted by
FriendlySkies
I still find this to be a stupid policy-- I had a tiny bit of water left in my Nalgene several years ago at MCI and they made me exit the sterile area (I didn't get the bottle back until I was outside the sterile area), drink the tiny bit of water and re-enter. This still makes no sense because they seize liquids all the time and just throw them into bins in the checkpoint as well as let folks ditch liquids in big bins right before the WTMD and "scanners". TSA security theatre at its finest.
Right: I can dump it out in the trash before the metal detector; I can go back through the metal detector if my shoes beep; they can put my bag back through if they find two laptops in my bag and remove one. But dump out the liquid and send a bottle back through (with or without the passenger)?
That is a non-starter.
So... It might force some bad actor to get extra scrutiny. But why not do that with two laptops in a bag or any other mistake that forces a rescan?