Originally Posted by stockmanjr
Actually it isnt the TSA who can do anything but the LEO who decided to arrest you in this particular case.The LEO had the option to allow you to go and just confiscate the item in question or to have the TSA agents do further testing on it as mentioned by someone else.I actually have to say that if I saw a big rubber ball that looked metalic in the middle I would have wanted to examine it further before allowing someone to fly with it.This is just an example of a LEO on a power trip who had zero common sense to just cut open the ball.I do blame the TSA agents for also having a lack of common sense and not cutting open the ball either.
Cheers
howie
The TSAers and LEO could have even done what the TSA does so with so many other harmless items on a daily basis -- that is, just seize the rubberbands and let the traveller go on their way. Instead the TSAers exhibiting poor judgment drag in LEOs and then the LEO too goes overboard and exhibits poor judgment. In this incident, we have yet another example of government authorities, at airports, exhibiting poor judgment; and this includes both the TSA and the LEO.