Originally Posted by
SATTSO
If you want to get a pat down "forget" something metalic in your pocket; or get the more extensive pat-down by claiming a pace-maker.
I suggest people not lie during their interaction with federal government staff.
Originally Posted by
SATTSO
Note, the more extensive pat-down will have you remove everything from your pocket, including your wallet. At that point, since you did not send your wallet through the wtmd, it has to be screened by x-ray or a hand check.
Why are TSA staff so reluctant to use the word "search"? Is it an attempt to avoid reminding us of our constitutional protection from unreasonable search? What you're describing, SATTSO, is
searching the wallet. Your process of keeping weapons, explosives, incendiaries,
drugs, drug paraphernalia, and large amounts of cash off airplanes may be "screening" but when you examine the content of my bags or my wallet, you are searching them, not screening them. (Similarly, when you look under my clothes, whether by having me remove them or using a device that allows you to see through them, you are strip-searching me, not strip-screening me, though I don't hear TSA staff using either of these terms.)