TSA changes rules to allow knives!
 

I never thought I would see this, but the TSA has changed its rules.
That means I don't have to remember to take my little leatherman squirt off my keychain any more.

http://www.tsa.gov/pil-sharpobjects

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What about knitting needles?

Oh it's a slippery slope. How long before they allow these?

Fixed it.

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I think they are confused "contoured" with molded. Although, every shape has a contour...

Good God.

Looks like something half my clientele would carry if they could.

"Has wiggly bits".

Uhh, exactly what kind of doctor are you again?:eyebrow:

Hm. Probably said too much ... more accurately, I am at times the bearer of unwelcome news that can result in colorful threats and/or acting out.

I'm thrilled, because when I fly I like to keep myself calm by whittling. They put the kibosh on my chain-saw bears, but a couple whistles or frogs can't possibly bother anybody.

Again, a slippery slope, infi. It's another short hop to linked chains and balls in cages...

I think insanity that obvious would trip a Sky Marshall intervention... hmm... sequestration probably reduces the threat of that. Don't tell Al Q.

What if you whittled a bigger knife, then used that to whittle a gun? They just haven't thought this through.

That'll teach the airlines to not let full planes sit on the tarmac for hours.

Likewise good news for others:

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