Atlanta refuses Opting Out?
Nov 23, 2010, 2:33 pm
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Atlanta refuses Opting Out?
Flyer in Atlanta claims TSO told her she had to leave if she didn't go through the NoS.
Haven't found this reported anywhere else.
http://wewontfly.com/kris-in-atlanta...ve-the-airport
Haven't found this reported anywhere else.
http://wewontfly.com/kris-in-atlanta...ve-the-airport
Nov 23, 2010, 2:41 pm
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I suppose it is possible that a clerk was THAT misinformed or THAT much of a bully. Amidst all this uproar, there is no way the opt-out policy has changed in that regard.
Other option is that the woman was mistaken. Or possibly lying.
Other option is that the woman was mistaken. Or possibly lying.
Nov 23, 2010, 2:46 pm
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Nov 23, 2010, 2:54 pm
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If it's true (and no pat-down option permitted), and the pax had the time, I'd have requested an LEO for the escort out. At that point, doesn't the LEO have to take a report, and the subject of the report would have been "pax refused mandatory AIT"?
Yet big "if it's true" caveat.
Yet big "if it's true" caveat.
Nov 23, 2010, 2:59 pm
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Nov 23, 2010, 3:05 pm
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Amen. I have a shoulder injury where my shoulder does pop in and out of my shoulder if I raise it above my head. Guess what - I trust my doctors more than I trust TSA and their medical geniuses working the checkpoints.
Nov 23, 2010, 3:09 pm
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I think this was a rogue supervisor - the subject of the article should have escalated.
I won't let my blood boil over the next TSA move. I'm smarter than they are. If they make NOS mandatory, I will buy a fabric arm sling and get a doctor's note from my other half - no NOS, no shoes. Let them do the extra work and I'll just budget an extra 10-15 minutes of airport time for the privilege of giving them the finger.
Sling will go on when I enter the airport, and will come off after clearing the checkpoint.
I won't let my blood boil over the next TSA move. I'm smarter than they are. If they make NOS mandatory, I will buy a fabric arm sling and get a doctor's note from my other half - no NOS, no shoes. Let them do the extra work and I'll just budget an extra 10-15 minutes of airport time for the privilege of giving them the finger.
Sling will go on when I enter the airport, and will come off after clearing the checkpoint.
Nov 23, 2010, 3:47 pm
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Nov 23, 2010, 3:58 pm
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I'm not willing to assume she was lying as a first line of refutation.
I am wondering, if she's that regular a flyer, why she would not, in preparation, have brought a copy of the TSA policy with her that says opting out is permissible, to show that supervisor.
I'm also wondering why she did not ask to see that supervisor's supervisor, instead of submitting herself to an as yet unestablished level of radiation risk, in order to travel through her country as befitting her Constitutional right as a U.S. citizen.
I am wondering, if she's that regular a flyer, why she would not, in preparation, have brought a copy of the TSA policy with her that says opting out is permissible, to show that supervisor.
I'm also wondering why she did not ask to see that supervisor's supervisor, instead of submitting herself to an as yet unestablished level of radiation risk, in order to travel through her country as befitting her Constitutional right as a U.S. citizen.