Originally Posted by
hgdf
I've been subjected to the ridiculous wallet inspection as well. Did it go something like
this?
I assume they're checking for either "contraband" or what they deem to be an inappropriate about of money. They best way to avoid it is to pace your wallet in a carry-on that goes through the x-ray and hope they don't decide to do a bag check.
TSO: "I can't believe that worked!"
And I'm sure that's how it works at the checkpoint..
In any case, I would bet that if they find you are carrying a large amount of cash, specifically foreign currency, which I do on all of my trips, then that is grounds for being suspicious
Originally Posted by
AngryMiller
Would like to stop all air travel, but my job requires it. Before saying 'find another job' remember that I am over 55 and good paying jobs are hard to find when you are that old. Got the wallet check once and I told the TSO doing it that I trusted him as much as he trusted me. Said 'you think I am a terrorist and I think you are a thief.' Got the D.Y.W.T.F.T from him over that.
Just because we want to travel doesn't automatically make us suspects. I would expect things like this out of Nazi, Germany or Stalinist, USSR, not out of the US. Some of us have personally witnessed TSOs stating that the checkpoint is a Constitution free zone. What's up with that? I never signed away any of my Constitutional rights by needing to fly somewhere.
+1
I am still amazed that we have to have conversations like this. You would think that somebody higher up would have grown a pair over the last ten years, and kicked TSA and their Hawaiian counter parts to the curb.