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Maybe they were celebrating the new budget?

First was when I was in line at the D checkpoint. All of a sudden, the smurfs all engage in a cult-like chant (the only way to describe it.). The stop everything in the checkpoint. I thought about hitting the deck and playing along, but I decided to snap a few cell phone pictures instead.

Self-selected opt out was easy and I began the long trek to the gate.

I grabbed a coffee and bagel and looked back towards the D-25 checkpoint and saw another BRAVO in the corridor right behind the checkpoint. A cop on a Segway was allowed to proceed. She stops near me and a clerk wearing a spiffy pink TSA golf shirt comes over to the cop. She asks him what's going on. The clerk says that it's an exercise. I butt in and say, "It's one of those silly BRAVO exercises we joke about on Flyertalk.com." He gives me a cold stare and the cop just shakes her head. I expected retaliation, but he walked away for the BRAVO hotwash with a gaggle of other golf-shirted clerks.
I will post about the self-opt out technique after I get back home and will update TSAStatus.net.