Originally Posted by
RichardKenner
Originally Posted by
OldGoat
Ron, you've crystallized the entire problem with TSA screening. To the TSA, something can be "dangerous" even though it poses no threat.
You misread the quoted text. I believe he was saying that explosives were dangerous, not the detected chemicals.
What he said was this:
"ETD alarms indicate that there is a chemical present that is also present in explosives. In other words, something dangerous."
I don't think I misread that at all. Read in isolation, you may have one of two possible interpretations. Read in the context of the thread, he's saying the chemicals are dangerous. Recall that ha started the banter by saying that ETD systems are particularly good at identifying something dangerous, and now he apparently wants to justify the statement by saying that because an ETD identifies chemicals present in explosives, it identifies something dangerous.
But the fact that we read the text differently does highlight his lack of clarity.