Originally Posted by
cynicAAl
I like that. I just cleared security at PDX 10 min ago where TDC made no less than 9 check marks on my BP, then circled my name and added her initials. Their highlighter budget must be huge.
I lined up at the WTMD, then was directed to the scanner, so opted out. Male assist put on new gloves, then swabbed them for explosives. The gloves tested positive and were fresh out of the box. Had to get a supv to clean the scanner and open the cabinet for a new box. He said that these gloves (made in Malaysia) were causing a huge number of positive scans for explosives, and he hoped someone in DC was paying attention, as this was a huge waste of taxpayer money. I bit my tongue rather than pointing out an even bigger waste of taxpayer money standing right in front of me with his hands in my pants.
That is one of the mostly oddly appropriate things I have heard all day and it has been a long day. I wonder if any of the boxes of blue gloves has exploded yet? Glad someone has seemed to figure out that it's the gloves that are causing all the alarms, not all of the passengers.
PDX must have been an awful airport to fly out after that shipment of gloves arrived and was deployed among the work-farce until the source of all the alarms was discovered.
