Originally Posted by
tigerstraveler99
I fly out of MCO every other week or so to DC. This morning I was on the 6:30 am departure to ATL and the TSA was at the gate. When boarding they were pulling people out of line that had a starbucks in their hand and waving a stripe of paper over the opening of the cup.
While many FT'ers speak very lowly of TSA "stuff", and it certainly is a "rubber stamp" type of operation, I feel they at least are much better than the bare minimum wage x-ray'ers from years ago who most of the time looked like they were falling asleep while watching the screen!
That said, are you sure you're talking about MCO? Orlando, McCoy int'l airport? In Florida? Near Disney World? Are they also waving the "strip", as you call it, over all of the jars of baby food stored in all of the diaper bags and strollers? And when you say Starbucks, were they checking ONLY Starbucks, not McD's coffee, or any other vendor's drinks? Cold drinks - or only hot?
Originally Posted by
Crazyhotelguy
Maybe they should go back to playing with the trains.
I was at MCO over Labor Day, and I did see something really wierd with the trams. It's a little hard to explain, but, people would exit the tram landside, then they wouldn't allow ANYONE to board until another TSA official did a sort of "sweep" thru the tram, as though they were looking for something! They had ropes on poles - kind of like in a bank - keeping people off til they were finished with their visual sweep, then they opened them up. What's that all about?!?! <shhhh - maybe it's top secret - along with the coffee & strip routine!>