Back in 2000, I was in the airport in Berlin Germany awaiting my flight back to Atlanta, having been on a job for the German government for several weeks.
I’m walking around the airport, just killing time, it’s a huge circle shaped building, when I heard MY NAME called out on the public address system to report to room such and such.
I did as instructed and was met at the door by a uniformed policeman who had my toolkit on the desk.
He asked if that was my luggage and of course I replied yes.
He said that the baggage scanner had detected a flammable substance inside.
I immediately knew that it was a small bottle of alcohol that I use to clean electronic contacts and soldered joints and told him so.
I opened the locked toolkit and sure enough the properly labelled bottle had leaked, and he removed it and I was good to go...................
I was questioned a couple times about the Xcelite screwdrivers but they were deeded to be ok because the bits were under than some maximum length for things that could be used for stabbing I guess. Never mind that they were designed to fit into a handle that was plainly visible. Same with Xacto knife, but a pocket knife was a no-go.
Good thing they let you go, though. I wonder what would have happened had you been wearing a MAGA hat though 😆