Hey all,

On my way home from ICN and I got secondaried at security. Thought I'd share my experience.

First off, I'll say there's a selective shoe carnival in force for US flag carriers. They saw my UA boarding pass (ICN-NRT) and made me remove my shoes. Other pax weren't removing shoes. At least they had slippers and the place seemed clean.

I sent my backpack thru security. It had a camera bag, books, my Kippie bag, and a bunch of power adapters. Apparently something caught their eye and they sent me to secondary.

I was quite surprised to see that it was rather pleasant for being a secondary. No body massage or anything. Quick hand wanding and only felt where the HHMD alarmed (found a pen). When searching my bag, he went over it thoroughly, but the x-ray image was clearly viewable so I could see what concerned them. He found what he was looking for ... a USB memory stick.

Here's the kicker though. He repacked my bag. Completely. Everything he took out he put exactly where he got it. I think he even did a better job repacking it than I did the first time lol. I thought "wow, TSA never would have done that." Not without a fight anyway. Bonus was that he was polite, apologetic, and I was able to clearly watch whatever he did.

It was kind of funny to see his puzzled look when he saw I wrote Kip Hawley is an Idiot on my Kippie baggie.

They're doing a gate bag check as well, but they only checked one bag. The guy in front of me was SSSS'd but that didn't seem to mean much there.

On another note, NRT was quick and painless. No shoe carnival. Did have remove my laptop bag. Don't know if there's a gate check or not as I haven't boarded.

The general theme I get from ICN, NRT, and YYZ is that they get security a lot better and without as much kabuki as TSA. Granted, you can see the influence of American and British stupidity (selective shoe and kippie carnivals) but overall, it's nice to go thru a checkpoint that the screeners at least seem to be happy, are polite, and aren't barking.

Makes me dread going thru security at ORD later today ...

Just thought I'd share.

Super