Originally Posted by
motorguy
The trouble with this is that you are, after all, at the airport with the intention of going somewhere on an airplane, right?
Yes. But only if I am able to do so without being porn-scanned or sexually molested by another male. As you know this is quite possible. Not everyone is selected for the porn-scanner and not everyone is selected for a secondary inspection. If I make it through the gauntlet of porn-scan selection and secondary inspection then I am perfectly happy to fly instead of driving or taking a boat. I am neither female nor attractive nor dark skinned (I am pasty white), and if I have a beard I always shave it before flying. It's a roll of the dice. If/when they do phase out the WTMDs completely or put them in series with the porn-scanners instead of in parallel then I wouldn't even bother to show up at the airport. But as long as they have them running there is a chance to make it through. Didn't a TSO here say that he guessed the chance of being selected was only something like 1 in 5? Of course even if true that could change at any time.