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Old Sep 1, 2012 | 7:40 am
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T.J. Bender
 
Join Date: Oct 2011
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Originally Posted by littlesheep
What are the various types and what do they mean?

I know SSSS is bad. What do the rest mean? After scribbling something a TSO waved me purposefully towards the cancer machine lanes but I moseyed on over to a metal detector lane, and walked through unscathed.
AFAIK, aside from SSSS, none of them mean anything. In fact, more often than not, they've never even looked at again. It's not at all uncommon for screeners to wave you into a specific lane. I was pulled out of the WTMD priority lane at DEN and told by the screener that I had to go two lanes over to an open scanner based on "random selection" of passengers. I just told the lady that my belongings were on this line and in the X-ray, and I was not leaving them that far out of my sight and control. She shrugged and grabbed the guy behind me (the poor sap whose belongings weren't in the X-ray yet) instead.
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