Twiggs,
These fanciful scenarios with pilot seductions and shoe substitutions belong in airport novels, not in planning airport security.
All these poeple who are outraged by so-called pilot arrogance just do not get the point.
First - Airport security is a joke. It is a let's pretend show. An illusion. Anyone who works airside knows this and knows ways that circumvent security when it gets to be more obnoxious than usual. Even now I imagine UK airport workers have developed sophisticated scams to get their currys airside.
Second - Pilots do not need a penknife, nail clippers or a bottle of water to miss-use an airplane. The can do it any time they damn well chose. They could do it nekkid if they had to.
Personally, I never give security a hard time, other than the odd muttering when having to remove my shoes again. However, I think the whole thing is expensive timewasting nonsense, and I avoid it whenever I can. Does this make me arrogant, or does it just show I am better informed and have a realistic view or the current situation.