TSA "Pilot Program" re: Paper Products
Sep 18, 2017, 8:45 pm
#136
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I just went through security 15 minutes ago in LAS.
My bag was flagged and removed from the belt. The officer said he has to look in it to find something. When he opened it up, he said that he found the problem.
I was a soft-cover book about an inch thick.
I feel much safer now.
My bag was flagged and removed from the belt. The officer said he has to look in it to find something. When he opened it up, he said that he found the problem.
I was a soft-cover book about an inch thick.
I feel much safer now.
Sep 19, 2017, 10:30 am
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I just went through security 15 minutes ago in LAS.
My bag was flagged and removed from the belt. The officer said he has to look in it to find something. When he opened it up, he said that he found the problem.
I was a soft-cover book about an inch thick.
I feel much safer now.
My bag was flagged and removed from the belt. The officer said he has to look in it to find something. When he opened it up, he said that he found the problem.
I was a soft-cover book about an inch thick.
I feel much safer now.
Sep 19, 2017, 2:20 pm
#138
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I just went through security 15 minutes ago in LAS.
My bag was flagged and removed from the belt. The officer said he has to look in it to find something. When he opened it up, he said that he found the problem.
I was a soft-cover book about an inch thick.
I feel much safer now.
My bag was flagged and removed from the belt. The officer said he has to look in it to find something. When he opened it up, he said that he found the problem.
I was a soft-cover book about an inch thick.
I feel much safer now.
The same bag passed through security at ORD and CLE without further inspection (the cookbook was gone by the time that we left CLE). I finally caught up on my reading on the flights home, but now I have another stack that accumulated during that trip.
Mar 4, 2018, 11:11 am
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Came through DTW today. Sign at TSA checkpoint said all electronics larger than cellphone need to be removed from bags and put into bins. I ignored it and kept my portable wifi router and other non-laptop electronics in my bag (spoiler: TSA did not flag them). However, TSA was VERY FOCUSED on books and food/snacks. My books had to be hand-inspected (not swabbed, surprisingly) and other people's bags of chips, containers of nuts, and candy bars had to be swabbed and rerun through the X-ray scanner.
Boy, flights from DTW today are REALLY safe..... what a joke.
Boy, flights from DTW today are REALLY safe..... what a joke.
(kidding, I hope)
Mar 4, 2018, 5:30 pm
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(About 8 years ago, when the scanners were starting to become so pervasive, my bag was flagged because it had a book in it -- about 800 pages, hardcover. As the TSO fanned through that book, I made a comment about how she would not be interested in the book because it didn't have any pictures in it. She apparently thought I was insulting her (!) and made a remark back to me, but I don't remember what it was.)
Oh and they had about 10 TSOs at the one checkpoint lane open today at that DTW checkpoint, but only ONE TSO apparently was allowed to do bag checks. We all had to wait in line for that ONE TSO to get to us. Even dumber.
Mar 5, 2018, 10:41 am
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I think it's curious that TSA says they are rifling the pages of my books to check for contraband between the pages. not to read my material.
Yet each time my papers have been searched, the screener has turned them facing upright (reading position) before flipping through them.
Yet each time my papers have been searched, the screener has turned them facing upright (reading position) before flipping through them.
Mar 5, 2018, 11:37 am
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I think it's curious that TSA says they are rifling the pages of my books to check for contraband between the pages. not to read my material.
Yet each time my papers have been searched, the screener has turned them facing upright (reading position) before flipping through them.
Yet each time my papers have been searched, the screener has turned them facing upright (reading position) before flipping through them.
Mar 5, 2018, 9:33 pm
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Mar 6, 2018, 9:58 am
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Mar 6, 2018, 10:09 am
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Mar 6, 2018, 11:07 am
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Mar 6, 2018, 12:43 pm
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Mar 6, 2018, 2:01 pm
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Mar 6, 2018, 6:54 pm
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