Originally Posted by
CDTraveler
If you depart from PHL's international terminal and you get the same TSA newbie that we got, all the pages in the world won't give that guy a clue.
Be prepared with the info from the link,
and insist on a supervisor is my policy.
("No, under no circumstances are you going to open that bottle of liquid medication,
prescription medication, and insert your test strip.")
Yes, there are some genuinely clueless people out there. The worst ever in my book was the guy at SLC who told an older female passenger with an infusion pump (chemotherapy for her cancer) she must stop the pump and remove the batteries for inspection
. Amazingly, the passenger complied - if it had been me asked to remove batteries from an infusion or insulin pump the supervisor would have heard my shout even in the airport restaurant or TSA offices in the other terminal building.