Originally Posted by
TSORon
BTW, how do you like the PreCheck system? We are slated to get it soon at my airport and I have not heard from a regular human what they think of it.
Works for me very well, except it's not deployed at nearly enough airports and I doubt my home airport #2 will ever get it. And I've had a 100% selection rate, so my thoughts about it are a lot more positive than some other people. The only negative is the nasty looks from the people waiting 45 minutes in line behind you while you waltz straight up to the ID checker and through the side door (at least at DFW).
Originally Posted by
TSORon
Sweating? Really? I don’t work with the scanners myself, but nothing I have read on them says anything about sweat causing an anomaly. Was this an ATR system or one of the older systems where there is someone in a booth somewhere reviewing the image?
I'm not up on my terms, but it was the one with the yellow boxes right there at the scanner. They
were mostly under my arms, so I have reason to believe they were ultimately wrong about what set it off. He did ask at first if it was raining outside, and when I said no, he said it must have been sweat.
Originally Posted by
TSORon
As for retaliation, as I have said before (and I believe you have not read), when you hear hoof-beats think horses, not zebras. Retaliatory screenings honestly do happen, but nowhere near as often as most in this venue would claim. If there was an anomaly then there was an anomaly, and it needed to be cleared, hence the pat-down.
If they anomalies were under my arms and the supervisor had already made the comment about a false positive, what was the point of touching me between my legs? Additionally, most of what I've read here said enhanced patdowns take around 30 seconds. Mine took four minutes (yes, I was counting) and less than 10 seconds was spent on my armpits. Why the discrepancies?
By the way, you know rape isn't about sex, right? It's about power and humiliation, and I think being threatened with arrest unless you consent to your genitals being touched is getting a little too close.