Originally Posted by Cholula
I witnessed something today that didn't seem quite Kosher but maybe it was within the scope of the TSA.
A dude lit up a cigarette in the smoking room in Terminal C at LAS today. And he lit it with a lighter rather than a book of matches.
Two TSA folks were burning cig's in the smoking room when this happened and observed the lighter. One of the TSA folks stood up and, in the loudest LEO-esque voice he could muster, said "SIR, I MUST CONFISCATE THAT LIGHTER IMMEDIATELY"
The guy turned over the lighter sheepishly but it made me wonder where the TSA authority at an airport starts and stops.
Apparently, you aren't the only person to have seen the LAS lighter police:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showp...9&postcount=13
Two weeks ago, I was thrown out of T-9 at JFK (American Airlines) at 2:30 am after arriving on a very late flight - I had a connecting flight at 6:00 am and had a BP for it and had decided to simply sit and wait for my connecting flight.
Nevertheless, the TSA employee yelled at me, telling me that it was a "Sterile Concourse" and that unless I was departing on one of the delayed European flights (that had yet to depart), I had to leave the concourse immediately.