Originally Posted by
RadioGirl
Yet TSA requires that people walk through a WTMD without considering people who rely on canes, walkers or wheelchairs. They require people to stand in the NoS with their arms up (or for a patdown with their arms out) without thinking about people who can't stand at all, who can't raise their arms, or who have poor balance. They expect everyone to be able to remove their shoes while standing. Confronted with an ostomy bag or an adult diaper or a defibrillator (which turned into a back brace and then into a money belt) or someone with autism or Alzheimer's, far too many of TSA's finest stand there frozen, not knowing what to do next. And that is clearly because TSA HQ has not considered (or has not adequately communicated) a procedure for dealing with these things which are, in fact, not all that unusual.
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TSA does not require people to walk through a WTMD. Nor require those who can not to stand in the positions you describe for AIT screening or pat down screening. We have some FT members who know this for a fact, people who hate TSA. But they wouldn't agree with your statement.
We do not expect everyone to remove their shoes. And again, there are some people on this site who are no friends of TSA but always leave their shoes on while screened.
As far as medical devices, we actually screen thousands of people with such devices as you describe every day. It is actually rare the screener who doesn't know what to do - but that does happen.
But it seems the only real mistake what what you claim in your post, as I have pointed out.