Originally Posted by myrgirl
I guess the way they figure it a tool is something used to manipulate something else, like drill a hole, screw a screw, pound a nail, turn a bolt etc. Looking at it that way, a tape measure isn't a tool - it's a measuring device.
I guess that makes sense. Terrorists wouldn't use non-tools to do manipulative things like that. You couldn't, for instance, pound anything the way you could with a hammer, using anything but a hammer.