Given Todd’s post below, I thought I’d repeat something I discussed in more detail a year and a half ago:
1. Inside the typical piece of glass — whether eyeglasses or a wine bottle — there’s a knife waiting to get out, and one that’s likely much sharper than a pair of nail scissors.
2. If we can’t fight off a hijacker who’s armed with a pair of nail scissors, then we deserve to lose.
UPDATE: I originally said “nail clippers”; reader Robert Lyman points out that the TSA now allows nail clippers, but not “scissors-metail with pointed tips,” which includes the nail scissors that I much prefer over nail clippers. I’ve changed the post accordingly. Also, metal dinner knives (except “round-bladed knives” and “butter knives,” which I think excludes even the usual, relatively blunt, metal dinner knives) are barred, and are therefore barred in restaurants that are within the airport’s security zone.
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