Originally Posted by
DErg
It was a rare and fleeting moment of logic for TSA, it did help that I was telling them to call the seattle police which contributed some credibility.
I think it helps that you were at SEA, so they probably had some understanding with the local PD. If this was LAX or JFK and your explanation was something about the Seattle PD, they probably would just throw you into a strip search room still. Heh. I could imagine that getting scary say if you ran into this on a return flight.