Lol, actually, all pockets are emptied into the plastic large trays just like you must remove keys from your pockets.

Now days even the metal rivets on Levis freak out the TSA'ers.

But it is not the TSA screeners that care about the weight thing. I have had airline ticket counter staff want to weigh my carryon just twice, but it is those characters at Ninoy Aquino airport in Manila that seem to take great personal delight in haranguing people with heavy carry ons even though Cathay themselves couldn't seem to care less.

So the article was meant to be a guideline for deploying countermeasures