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Old Apr 1, 2010 | 7:12 pm
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AAce_Inthe_O
 
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: DFW
Posts: 81
New TSA ID restriction

Going through TSA checkpoint at DFW terminal C today and handed the ID checker my Texas CHL she promptly informed me that Texas CHLs are no longer excepted as a form of ID. (Just to clarify my CHL meets ALL the requirements for REAL ID and is issued by the TX DPS.)

I asked why and her response was "too many people are making fake ones" I asked for a supervisor who reiterated what the smurf had said so I gave them my TX DL and asked why they couldn't tell the difference between real and fake IDs?

no response just asked to move along.

As I suspected the TSA can NOT tell the difference between a fake and a real ID.

Anyway I proceed through the WTMD and set it off but just keep walking over to my bags and start to collect my belongings. Normally I would stop and turn around but the smurf on duty looked to be asleep so I thought it would be funnier to wait by my bags and see how long it took her to say something(it was very slow no one else was behind me) The smurf was daydreaming and didn't realize I had triggered the WTMD until another smurf came over to "wake her up". Security at its finest.
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