Up until about five years ago I flew pretty regularly between DC and Denver. I quit carrying a Swiss army knife as the "anchor" for my keys because of the hassles with security. I understand that the things the hijackers had were not metal and thus did not set off the metal detector.

Interestingly enough, when I went to Ireland ten years ago, not even the Irish security people, who patted me down at Heathrow, made a fuss about the swiss army knife.

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