Originally Posted by
TSORon
OK, so now you know. Some boarding passes have the full itinerary listed on them, depends on the carrier. Most will staple all boarding passes together. As we look through them for the information we need to verify at the WTMD we also note final destination.
See above. In those cases where we do not have the boarding pass for the international leg of the trip and cannot know where you plan to finish your trip other than the last destination on the boarding pass in hand, we cant. If a large amount of cash is noted in your bag, or found on your person during a search, we will most likely ask. Or we may not. Depends on the TSO. You can refuse to answer if you like, I’m certainly not going to jump up and down on your chest trying to get it out of you, but then we are back to the point of consequences for actions. If you act like a jerk, my guess is that they are going to treat you like a jerk. There are better ways to answer the questions asked, and there is no need to be offensive. Think about it, I’m sure as someone who thinks of himself as a reasonable person that you can come to an answer, of some kind.
Oh, this is fun. So, thinking for myself, as you so courteously suggested, sure,
if this is an airport where the BP is re-checked at the WTMD, and
if the BP is NW, or
if all BP's are stapled together (never done IME on DL, CO, NW, UA, US, LH, AC, or home printed or kiosk printed BP's of any airline) and
if the crack travel document checker has memorized that, for instance, MEL is not Melbourne, FL,
then the crack travel document checker will know if the pax is slated for an international itinerary. But the crack travel document checker at the WTMD has no idea what's in the pax bag.
If these 3 rather unlikely in toto "if's" do all line up, the crack travel document checker knows the pax may soon leave the country, but how do the people doing the bag check, who subsequently note a "lump" of cash in the bag, know that this is a pax on an international itin?
"If a large amount of cash is noted in your bag, or found on your person during a search, we will most likely ask. Or we may not. Depends on the TSO." I presume you mean ask whether the pax is on an international itinerary. If I co-operate, (unlikely since this search and questioning combo has gone beyond an administrative search and is IMHO, pretty clearly illegal) in all cases but NW,
if the TSO decided to pursue, pax just shows you the BP for my first leg, and they're done?
And how do any of you know that the pax wasn't going to file the appropriate paperwork at this final stop before leaving the country.
Note to TSORon; Need more layers, about 500 of them, given this plan's inherently inept structure. Or maybe, just maybe, you take your own advice, think for yourself, and conclude the TSA does not have the qualifications, the intelligence, the skill, the wherewithall, to enforce currency transfer regs.
Note to self: As someone else here suggested, Need a thick stack of 1's sandwiched between 2 @ $100 bills when I have some spare time. Apparently a butter knife will add to the hilarity. Then I can act like a "jerk" by continuing to insist that the 1st, 4th and 5th constitutional amendments have not been suspended just because some silly blue smurf (oops; sorry; security professional
) with a tin badge wants to know things (s)he has no right to even ask about.