In Reply to: lighter restrictions posted by Denise Perth on Monday, 6. June 2011 at 16:16 Bali Time:
This happened to me on the way back from thailand a few years ago. It was a refillable novelty lighter. I told the airport staff that I would empty out the fuel from the lighter so that it could not be operated until I reached Australia. But this did not change there mind and I lost my lighter.