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Old Sep 13, 2011 | 7:06 am
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T-the-B
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Originally Posted by Lara21
It sounds like they are testing someone to see if they are doing the patdown and the glove test correctly.
That's what I would have thought if it just happened once or twice. However; I've hit a string of 4 or 5 in a row. I guess it could be the law of averages, but it does seem odd. Also this has happened in multiple airports.


Originally Posted by Drince88
Did the explosives detector alarm for the first set of gloves?

When I had a (false) positive on the explosives detector, I basically just got a second patdown and full inspection of all my carry on items. (Fortunately using a DIFFERENT machine, since the first machine alarmed when a clean swab was swept over the machine itself and alarmed.)
I've never had an alarm.
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