Originally Posted by
exbayern
In Canada selection for WBI is truly random, use is optional, the opt out pat down is usually professional and different from the 'new' TSA pat down, and CATSA is generally much more professional than TSA. Nor is WBI in use as much as in the US, and domestic and international flights do not follow all the TSA mandated rules for US bound flights.
Hence the reasons I suspect why it hasn't raised the same level of anger. Many of us have said it here - if TSA were at the same professional level as screeners in Europe or Asia most of the problems would not exist.
Yes. I pass through YVR a few times per year. You step on a pad and the arrow points one way or the other. I just missed the bad one the last time. The person in front of me stepped off and back on and got the bad arrow. But from everything I have observed, the process is a bit less dreadful.
I am so outraged. I could hardly sleep last night as I thought more about how disgusting it was to have a TSO stick his hand inside my pants on Friday night, followed by the run up the inside of my thigh. I hope I can avoid this on Saturday by using a different checkpoint to enter the secure area. Otherwise, I may be in the news myself because I am not setting foot in that machine and I am not letting a TSO do that again. Hell, I'll take off my pants and shirt and walk through the metal detector in just my shorts and socks. Of course, that wouldn't be good enough. Sick.