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Old Feb 3, 2010 | 3:30 pm
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Originally Posted by Trollkiller
I will need to fly soon, unfortunately it is a short turn around trip so I can't risk fighting about IDs. I feel bad about that and one of my co-workers has already guilt tripped me about it.

Instead I figured I would have a bit of fun with the TSOs or "provoke" them if you will.

Any ideas would be appreciated, let your imaginations run wild.
MCO is a tough airport to do anything because it's so busy with a lot of touristas most of the time. On the other hand, a large airport will invariably have some hair-trigger SPOTNiks running around. Some ideas:

1. Somebody already mentioned taking a copy of the unredacted SOP with you. You could perhaps figure out a way to discretely leave it at the checkpoint as you walk away. Unless you can figure out a way to hang around the checkpoint (maybe take a long time to put your shoes back on or something), you won't be able to see the fruits of your labor.
1 (a): Is it too late to make up a tee shirt with the cover page of the SOP on the front?
2. Take a big bottle of bath powder hoping to trigger the new War on Powders by getting the bottle inspected. I read somewhere (a screener posted this) that they are interested in containers of powder bigger than 12 ozs (I think). Regardless, I know that my 15-oz bottle of bath powder breaks the threshold. You could talk to the screener like a Kettle and suggest that inspecting containers of powder would be a great way to find people carrying drugs. Your reward would be to bait the screener into admitting that they do, in fact, search for drugs. Who knows where that conversation would go.

3. This one would work better with checked luggage: Take a blank DVD and write "My Best Porn" on it or some other phrase to draw attention to it as being some sort of porn DVD copy. Put on a video file, title it "porn movie" or something like that, and have a slide show with a few powerpoint slides telling the screener just what you think of him for taking the bait. This is a long shot. I'm not sure you could easily get it stolen at a checkpoint.

4. Eat lots of chili and hope you get a frisking. You could release some pretty lethal chemical weapons.
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