I was going through airport security in San Francisco. Mind you, I'm in a wheelchair and the TSA screener looks at my kilt pin (which is in the same of a sword) and starts to tell me that even though it isn't sharp, has no real point and is too flimsy to be used as a weapon it could be perceived as one and that he'd have to confiscate it. I started to raise a fuss, since it had been perfectly fine for the flight to San Francisco. A supervisor came over, and the TSA screener explained what was going on in not so glowing terms. She then looked at the screen, rolled her eyes, shook her head, apologized to me and told him that jewelry is not a weapon. She also told him to do a risk assessment and that a man in a wheelchair with an obviously visible weakening of his leg (one leg in a brace and smaller than the other) is not going to a threat on a plane.

Of course, she's never been around me after beans otherwise she might have quarantined me!