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"If you actually believe that 3 oz is a magical high-danger threshold, please consider adding a delightful, hallucinatory element of science to your pseudoscience by putting an Archimedes tank at the checkpoint. It would be a lovely counterpoint to your other scientific tests, such as the ducking stool and the spirit-rattles."

Loved this comment:

as well as this one:

I think a better question is why does the TSA hate freedom and the Constitution?

Disney Stores have a little sign by their snow globes warning people they can't carry these onto an airplane. Yet they continue to sell them by the gross.

I wonder if the stores past security sell them?

The conundrum continues.

Now that you mention it I seem to recall recently seeing snow globes for sale on the 'secure' side of the airport. Those must not look like explosive devices on the x-ray machines otherwise how would they get onto the shelves airside since everything is checked and double checked.

Do all snow-globes have a Christmas theme?

The rules say dont bring them through the checkpoint. What is so difficult about that to understand?

And you wonder why a large section of the population want you and your fellow TSA employees, along with your families, living out of shopping carts for the rest of your existence.

Sorry, but your comment is not helpful. Why is it that some people just can�t follow the rules? They are not difficult, at least this one is not. "Don�t bring them." What�s so hard about that? Most of the rules in our lives have reasons behind them, most for safety. This is no different.

Admittedly there are people out there that just don�t like rules for no reason that they can articulate, but this one is not difficult. We would rather you pack them in your checked baggage and deliver them to your friends/loved one�s at the end of your trip than be forced to leave them at the checkpoint.

I certainly don�t want your snow globe from Vermont or Switzerland, and I would think that if it is important enough to you to actually lay down your hard earned cash for it that you could read and attempt to understand the rules concerning them. The words are not all that big.

Which rules? Where are they located? Where can a citizen find an authoritative list of all of the rules that apply to citizens and screeners at checkpoints?

Oh, wait: There isn't one.

No definitive set of rules? How un-American.

I am sure there is a rule book somewhere, and I am convinced that it was based entirely on Joseph Heller's book Catch 22.

Why is a Snow Globe not safe in carry on luggage but safe in checked luggage?

Don't ask.. Too dangerous to carry-on, fine in checked luggage.

Internally inconsistent rules aren't based on logical thought. I am surprised that snow globes don't have to be locked in the equivalent of a gun case, however. @:-) At the least, that would provide some consistency...

Just for the record, CATSA does allow them, the general rule being if it is the size of a tennis ball, it is allowed, size of a baseball or bigger it is not allowed.

Softball? Leave it to the Canadians to make sport of a TSA rule.

On a side note, I dislike Christmas because people bring wrapped presents through security which means when I do a bag search, I have to rip open the presents which leads to dealing with hostile passengers.