Recently at Stanstead as a passenger I had to give up a pair of very blunt-ended scissors which I had inadvertantly left in my crew bag. I felt like pointing out to these very bright secuity men that I could go and legally purchase a couple of glass bottles of say vodka, take them on board, go to the toilet, smash them, light the alcohol to start a fire and use the smashed bottle tops as far more serious and dangerous weapons than my blunt ended scissors.
If I had I would probably been arrested as a terrorist and at the very least missed my flight. So I kept quiet.This so called security is an expensive game to make us all feel more safe despite the fact that 3500 people die on the roads every year and thousands more injured (some for life) ie the equivalent to quite a large number of 747s crashing every year without a concern from anybody. So why is everybody feeling save when it is infinitely more dangerous than flying?