Originally Posted by
cbn42
A few moments later, I put my wallet and phone in a doggy bowl and put it on the x-ray along with my carry-on. The TSO pointed to the bowl and asked me "is this yours?" I assumed that the x-ray showed an anomaly, so I just nodded. He opened my wallet, took out my driver's license, shined it with the black light, and put it back.
Holy crap. If this had happened to me, I'm fairly certain that I would have gone ballistic and probably been arrested for disorderly conduct after spewing every four letter word in my vocabulary at angry redneck volume.
What he did was treat you disrespectfully because you failed to yield to his authority like all the other sheep. To h*ll with Homeland Security and law enforcement and whatever else, what he did probably deserves a punch in the mouth in the land of good manners and decent human conduct, even if it would probably land you on the list and in jail. Holy crap that was bad. I just assumed that they had rifled through it during a secondary. Oh man I'm glad that wasn't me.
Originally Posted by
Houston.Business
Putting the wallet in the bowl was a major mistake. It should go in one of your carry-on pieces.
FWIW, this is my answer. Everything I carry goes into my briefcase when I travel, except for my passport card and my BP. If they want to go through my bag (and my wallet), I'll be standing there the whole time.