Here's a story for your perusal. I work in a suit job now where carrying knives etc is frowned on. I still carry a hidden urban kit but a young relative (knowing I llike adventurous travel / expeditions etc) bought me one of those credit card sized mini work - tools. Mine is by BCB:
http://www.bcbin.com/store/comersus_viewItem.asp?idproduct=132
Anyway to cut a long story short, I didn't know where to keep it so I shoved it inside my mobile phone case behind the phone. <img src="images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />The case is leather with a sprung steel clip. Well, I forgot that it was there and I travelled from the UK to Luxembourg by air with the mini-tool with me. This was post 9-11 and the phone was put through the x-ray scanner on its own by the security staff in the UK and Luxembourg coming back. <img src="images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />I suspect that this was illegal but no-one picked it up. I can only think that the tool was 'lost' in the x-ray as it was sandwiched between the phone and the clip. Its also not knife-shaped. Worrying isn't it?