Well, I am not advocating what that particular TSO did. Said passenger shouldn't have left his/her items unattended on the divesting table/x-ray rollers and walked away. How many times have we seen on here the "I wait for all my items to disappear into the x-ray before I go to the metal detector." Which you should! People are so worried about us touching their things but they don't ensure that their items are properly through the machine.

The other day, a horrid horrid day, (weather at ORD=mass flight delays/cancellations) I was running the x-ray and someone left their items just sitting on the table like they were going to sprout legs and walk themselves right in the machine. I looked at the bags, and looked at the x-ray, then back at the bags, and asked the woman if she could push them on. She said "they aren't mine." So I said "OK." and we waited until the owner was saying "where's my stuff?" The woman I asked to push the items in yelled loudly, "right here were you left it!!" I could only laugh to myself because I rarely see passengers "schooling" other passengers.