Originally Posted by TSAJohn
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.
And how exactly would a passenger know an incident report was written up?
There are many, many stories of people being fined who had no idea they were at risk of getting fined until the notice showed up in the mail.
I would be willing to bet that the vast majority of the travelling public has no idea that one can be fined for packing a cheese slicer in their carryon.