Originally Posted by TierFlyer
Reallly? So by having thousands of "I know better" people clog the security lines at the airport and making me miss my daughter's choir practice you think that you can make Congress do a better job?
Look, I wouldn't want the job of trying to design security around the way that (not so) modern airports are designed, with dozens of carriers, different regulations governing behavior, different unions involved, and, of course, people trying to blow up airplanes WITH US IN THEM every day.
Prior to 8/10, TSO routinely delayed pax when water bottles and other liquid contraband was NOT a concern. Believe me, if it wasn't water, it'd be something else, and you wouldn't get to your destination any more quickly.
Look at it this way: this type of "absentmindedness" allows pax to score a moral victory against a stupid rule while allowing TSO to feel good about the fact that they're doing their jobs by seizing "contraband".