Originally Posted by
hiltonhead
Bringing a prohibited item into a secure area, especially when it is posted that the item is prohibited, and having it taken from you is not theft.
Debatable when the prohibited item isn'ta threat. It's more like confiscation. 6 of one, half a dozen of the other.
BTW...the definition of theft has nothing to do with the final disposition of the item...but other than that, you were right on.
You're right. This is theft with intent to sell and it's much worse. If TSA were confiscating and disposing of it properly (after all, most of this stuff IS hazmat right? :rolleyes), I'd have less of an issue with it. Confiscating and then having others profiteer off of something that TSA really has no business taking is just wrong.