If you thought only in the US have they become hyper-sensitive to the issue of security, taking it way too far to the extreme, you are wrong.

As well, if you thought everyone must know what tefillin are, you are also wrong.

We have become familiar with the stories of airplanes being grounded because of bomb scares due to passengers laying their tefillin.

Now a guy on a New Zealand ferry created a bomb scare when he laid his tefillin while on board the ship. Again, a passenger got scared after seeing the fellow handling a small box with wires protruding from it..

The man was taken in for questioning and released when he was cleared with no further charges.
(source: Haaretz)