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Old Jul 27, 2011 | 6:59 pm
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Originally Posted by TXagogo
He said "I'm pretty good at this cause I must have done thousands of them by now." I replied "If everyone loves the scanners so much as your agency constantly claims, then why are you doing so many gropes?" He gave some lame answer and realized he'd said the wrong thing.
He only thinks he's done a lot of gropes. Just wait until the Nude-O-Scope software upgrade triggers more since the machine won't be able to figure out what it sees.



Originally Posted by cottonmather0
Some of my best TSA stories are from Terminal A. Quite often there is a barker there who looks a little like Dave Chappelle with a fuller beard. He doesn't like it when people bark back, but if you bark louder he eventually backs down and looks for someone else to pick on.
Dave Chappelle, really? Holler back "WHAT? WHAT? WHAT? YEEAASS!"



Originally Posted by spd476
I'm thinking about grabbing a credit card out of my wallet and reading off of it.
That's awesome, do it with a Costco card (unless the Trained Document Checker accepted it as your ID.



Originally Posted by SATTSO
No, you will not be required to pronounce your name. You may be asked, but not required. Yes, you may run into stubborn TSOs who get the STSO if you refuse to answer, but you will be allowed through the checkpoint. The purpose of the procedure is not to have you say your name.
So what is the purpose?
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