After being forced to unload all my valuables into my carryon, TSA frequently will not allow me to keep an eye on my valuables.
At SFO, after years of going through this, I told the TSA agent before the machine, that I'd set it off and that I needed to be able to see my things. And she said that I cannot do that.
I've consistently over the years (after TSA agents insisted on taking my wallet and running it through the xray) taken my valuables out of my pockets and into my carryons.
It is more than a majority of the time a struggle to get TSA to allow me to keep an eye on my valuables while I go through additional screening (I have a medical issue which always results in this).
I have come to simply hate TSA as almost anybody with a medical issue does. It took a long time to develop but the 1) realization that almost all your procedures focus undue interest on those with medical issues and 2) your rules are often at crosspurposes --I was told to keep an eye on my stuff at all times, then TSA employees tell me I cannot (no i don't mean when they are actually in the xray but afterwards).
9 years of this and as a traveler who gets whatever new screening techniques you can come up with (I've flown this month) and I've gone from being happy to fly to dreading TSA --why? Because I have a medical issue which sets off the various detectors (but not explosives one).
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TSORon
And now for the facts…
If someone looses an item at the checkpoint TSA honestly has no responsibility for it. Then again, TSA goes through a great deal of effort to retain and secure lost items, and when contacted about them will go to quite a bit of effort to see that they are returned to their owners.
TSA does not “confiscate” things at the checkpoint. Each and every passenger is offered choices, only one of which would end up with the passenger not retaining their item. 1.) You can take the item out of the sterile area and deal with it as you choose. 2.) You can mail it to yourself. 3.) You can abandon the property here and TSA will deal with it. Claims that the TSA “confiscate” items from passengers is an outright lie.
Absolutely correct. It’s a small issue that we are working on. New x-ray systems are currently going out to all the airports that can accommodate them that provide more than one view of items going through.
The boarding pass can, but I don’t believe the ID will be allowed.