Originally Posted by
RichardKenner
Sure. But what does that have to do with what I said? Of course, the alarm has to be resolved. But it can be helpful to give a hint as to how to proceed. In the most common case, the passenger forgot about some metal. So the first procedure is to ask the passenger to check for metal and try again. But if the alarm is due to an implant, there's no point in wasting anybody's time with that step.
In general, it seems quite reasonable to me for the passenger to be involved in a discussion of the various possible ways of resolving an alarm, so long as all options would properly resolve it. I'm surprised that you seem to be against letting the passenger have options.
Originally Posted by
Caradoc
And when the clerk demands proof of the implant, says the implant card is forged, and demands to see the scar?
What then?
Originally Posted by
RichardKenner
Obviously, the card is useless and any person who alarms the WTMD needs a pat-down. Yet again, the only value in asking the question is to skip the step of having the passenger go through the WTMD multiple times. If the person lies, no harm done since all that's happened due to that lie is that time will have been saved.
The most stoooooooopid part of this entire conversation is that, prior to the deployment of AIT, WTMD alarms were resolved with Hand Held Metal Detectors (The Wand). But since the wand was forcibly retired after Scope and Grope was deployed, the ONLY way to resolve WTMD alarms now is with a full body rubdown with genital contact (which TSA laughably calls a "pat-down").
What was the motivation for ridiculous idea of actually taking away one of the most useful tools in security screening, one which only cost a few hundred bucks per unit instead of a few hundred thousand, and could be used by almost anyone, with no special training? I haven't the foggiest...