Actually, you do. It's *so* over the top. Designed to scare the pants
off
nervous fliers. I wonder, is it legal to carry a laser pointer on a
commercial flight?

No. All commercial passengers must be completely naked, must check every
single item they wish to travel with (including their pacemakers, insulin
pumps, and Epi-Pens) into the cargo hold, and must be encased completely
within a lucite "security pod" for not only the duration of the flight, but
for two days beforehand and 6 hours afterwards. Anal probes are still
optional at this stage, but they will become mandatory of the beginning of
the next fiscal year. All 12 of the people who flew commercially since
these regulations were introduced (not counting the four or five who
asphixiated in malfunctioning security pods) chose to walk home rather than
fly the return leg of their round trip.