Originally Posted by Gargoyle
There was a section of a
thread about this and Bart explained it. Essentially prohibited tools are those which change things- cut, attach, slice, dissassemble, pry, etc.
My concern about the items I need to carry doesn't come from them being tools, but more from them being metal objects.
Given that reasonable people (including those here) can argue whether a tape measure is a tool, couldn't a screener decree that a tape measure (or level) is a tool and give one the choice of losing it or not getting on the plane? What would the OP do then? We all can say that, of course, a tape measure is not a tool for the purposes of TSA screening, but if a TSA agent decrees it to be, we're SOL.
I find it amusing that "Tools" under the category "Tools" are forbidden (on the TSA list), except some tools. Of course they never define what it tool is.