Hopefully, they took away his fingernail clippers.
I flew from Phoenix to San Jose to visit my uncle and his family over New Years holiday. I am a nurse and have a work tote. I grabbed my pen case from this tote at the last minute and put it in my purse. Got to San Jose w/o any problem. Towards the end of my trip, I go to get a pen out of said case. Come to find out I had left a 6 - 7 “ hemostat in there. Ooops! How it got through x-ray, I’ll never know. I put it in with my checked luggage.