Originally Posted by FliesWay2Much
If you do this, they will have your personal information and essentially a confession of your infraction. You would really leave yourself vulnerable to a fine.
You're joking right? You must really think we're all a bunch of *******s? (No need to answer that) If we really wanted to fine somebody for a Swiss Army knife, we'd make an incident report before they left the checkpoint.
Unfortunately, we drop all surrendered items into lock boxes. The key at our airport is held by an Admin guy that we never see. We couldn't give stuff back if we wanted to.