Originally Posted by exhayern
Most here have seen pictures and video or experienced themselves a front of hand pat down on breasts and/or buttocks. It exists, even if it isn't trained that way. And that must speak to poor training or poor reinforcement of skills amongst your agency. Both of you tend not to tell us 'it didn't happen' or insinuate that we are lying, and many of us truly can report such things are happening to us.
Probably because GSO and myself are more tactful and polite than to do something like that? Besides, I never imply anyone's lying for the same reason I can't comment on anything related to the AIT — I'm not there. For all I know, some TSO
did grab a lady's breast and give it a grip, squeeze, and row. It
could happen, and the most I can or will say is that the TSO involved shouldn't be employed by the TSA after that point.
Again, just because things are done a certain way in GSO and HSV doesn't mean that they are done that way in ORD, or SAT, or DEN or any number of other airports.
Obviously. But, like I pointed out to someone else in another thread, I can only speak to what happens in Huntsville. I saw that SATTSO told someone in one thread that his iPad has to be removed from carry-on bags and be put through the x-ray separately. Clearly, this is an SAT thing. We in HSV go by the baseline rule from TSA, in that they can stay inside so long as we can still reasonably screen the bag in spite of its presence (or, in other words, that it and everything else in the bag doesn't create a cluttered mess through which nothing else can be seen).
Masking poor training and poor leadership under the guise of 'planned inconsitency' is just insulting to your customers.
I've said the same thing.