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Last month, an angry man chose to chug his liter of vodka, rather than to surrender it to airport security officials. Although this man made a hilarious—but unwise—decision, it seems as though he started a revolution for liquor connoisseurs. San Francisco Chronicle columnist Mark Morford recently forgot a 375 milliliter bottle of Krohn port in his bag. Instead of making him throw it out, a screener said Morford could enjoy it before passing back through the checkpoint. The lucky traveler even shared his coveted liquid with another passenger. Who knew passing through security could be so—hiccup—delightful?

I'm not all that surprised by these developments--flying out of Madrid two years ago, I arrived to board my flight to JFK and was then told I could not bring my water and the small bottle of Glenfiddich I'd bought to help pass the delay onto my flight (apparently somebody had tried to blow-up a plane in Heathrow a couple weeks earlier). The screeners were reluctant to try any, but the gentleman whose very nice looking writing pen was ordered not to board felt as if he would share a nip, leaving the rest of the bottle to me.

Unfortunately, with my water also exhausted prior to boarding, it was a dehydrating flight.

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