Originally Posted by
Boggie Dog
I cannot accept that TSA does not require its employees to change gloves after rummanging around in someones bags or after touching another person since TSA does stick their hands in our pants, in our hair, and on bare skin.
If there is no hazard then why do TSA screeners need gloves?
It's for their protection, not ours...
Back before there was an in-line baggage screening system in T4 @ LAX, which admittedly was a few years ago now, while standing in line to drop my bag, I watched a screener sneeze into his gloved hands, pick his nose, & then go right back to rummaging thru someone's bag.
Just a few weeks ago, while waiting for a flight out of DFW, I watched the screeners @ C21 do their thing (I was bored, plus I wanted to see how many pax still got groped after being scoped-was running 50+%). At one point, female screener decided that scoping wasn't enough & wanted to swab the hands of a pax coming thru. She pulled the swab out of a baggie that was hanging wide open on the rope w/her grimy gloves that had been who knows where, swabbed the pax hands & then the fun really started. For more than 5 minutes (remember, I was bored), she & 2 other screeners traded that swab back & forth while going from one side of the check point to the other trying to find a machine that would actually work to 'analyze' it. I am still stunned that after all that the thing came up negative & the pax was finally allowed on her way.
What's even more amazing, of course, is that there are people who still believe the only reason planes aren't falling out of the sky is because of BS like this
