I had the same thing happen on my way home from England this winter.
BGB had some really cool stones that the former homeowner had left behind, so I wanted to take them home- mostly because I have a friend who's crazy about getting rocks from distant places.

No, they wouldn't let me take them onboard. Three pounds of rocks. Idiots.

And yet if I wanted I could take a chunk of fiberglass reinforced nylon- say, a chunk of a car's fan blade- file one edge of it to a really nasty sharpness, and have a truly wicked knife that would go through security easily.

Useless fuckers, the lot of them.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Mon 21 Jul 2008, 13:13, Reply)