Originally Posted by
svenskaflicka
It sounds like the young heavyset girl with the bun in her hair that my husband had to deal with last fall. She went through my husband's briefcase soooo slowly asking him what each item was. She looked like she would kill her own mother. They tried to say that because we were on the golf course the day before, that his briefcase was alarming. Huh? Why would his briefcase alarm and not the shoes he wore on the course, which were in his carryon? Typical LIH TSA!! We won't be going back there for a long time.
DING DING DING. We have a winner. When she was proven wrong, she practically threw a fit. It all led to a retaliatory gate search of just me and my friend.
I wrote to the TSA and was given the standard boilerplate response about highly trained professionals, heightened state of alertness, etc. Pretty much a kindly worded "we don't give a flying rat's hiney" answer. As with you, I will not be returning to LIH anytime soon.