Can jewelry be worn when going through the body scanners?
#16
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Colorado
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It's a matter of personal choice. Some people find the AIT scanners less objectionable than the "up-close-and-personal" physical pat-downs. Neither alternative is pleasant, and reasonable people will differ as to which of those two unpleasant choices is less unpleasant.
#17
Join Date: May 2010
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I've watched plenty of patdowns done post AIT, and they are just as rude as an opt-out - they'll check your groin and waistband even if you have a nickel in your shirt pocket (??!!) what the heck, save yourself from the future cancers, and join my line.
:-:ALWAYS OPT-OUT:-:
#18
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eyecue, I understood a full patdown after a WTMD alarm - you had no way of being sure where the alarm was coming from or if there were multiple sources that were alarming (coins in pocket and knife strapped to leg).
But why do you do a full frisk when the NoS operator observes an anomaly in the right front shirt pocket area?
#19
Join Date: Sep 2009
Posts: 453
I have also observed this (full frisk to resolve an anomaly like a boarding pass in the pocket).
eyecue, I understood a full patdown after a WTMD alarm - you had no way of being sure where the alarm was coming from or if there were multiple sources that were alarming (coins in pocket and knife strapped to leg).
But why do you do a full frisk when the NoS operator observes an anomaly in the right front shirt pocket area?
eyecue, I understood a full patdown after a WTMD alarm - you had no way of being sure where the alarm was coming from or if there were multiple sources that were alarming (coins in pocket and knife strapped to leg).
But why do you do a full frisk when the NoS operator observes an anomaly in the right front shirt pocket area?
So the SSI is that a full patdown must be performed on all passengers after going through the NOS because the screener in the secret room missed something because they glanced away from the screen. So when one hears the screener tell the frisker that ''The object is on the passengers left right leg above the knee." That is just words to cover his/her behind from having to say. ''Passenger needs patdown because I wasn't looking at the screen."
#20
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Honolulu, HI
Posts: 26
I won't remove my wedding or engagement ring either no matter what they say or ask. My husband tried to throw his wedding ring once into the bins when we were flying out of Norfolk and the TSO told him to put it back on, that he didn't need to take it off. I about kicked him for even taking it off.
#21
Join Date: Dec 2008
Posts: 1,444
I don´t. That was what they had wands for - they could determine body areas that alarmed. Then they decided they no longer wanted to use wands, and the full blown frisking began.