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Old Aug 17, 2011 | 2:35 pm
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Originally Posted by SATTSO
There seems to be a little you do not know about the WTMD. Do you know the trick of holding your hand over your belt buckle to prevent it from alarming the WTMD? It works pretty well....

Now hold a child, and between that child and your body conceal an item. That actually would work well, too, to defeat a WTMD.

But ignoring that, other things you do not seem to understand about the WTMD: I have been there when knives, bullets, and even BLASTING CAPS (metalic detonators with the explosive (non-metalic) removed) have cleared the WTMD.

Technologies have limitations. Hoping they do not does not make it so.
I was once told by a TSA screener to move the buckle into a plane parallel to the floor. Don't know if that really works or not but I didn't alarm when I did as instructed.

Would a screener let me hold my hand over the buckle nowadays?
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