I happened upon another crown jewel in the TSA arsenal today in Atlanta. There were four pre-check lanes open on the south-side. Two lanes went into the old screening area, so I avoided those to avoid the scanners that lurked there (granted - I saw most people going through WTMD). Two lines went into the area that has been used for pre-check most of this year. I always avoid the right lane, as they had another scanner on that side. That one is now dedicated to the sky-priority lane that had been moved there for the last couple of weeks.

Anyway, I noticed the left lane (which I was in) was going very slow. When I got to the front, I found out why. TSA was putting all ID's into a machine that beeped in a high pitch (which I guess was pass) or a low pitch (which I guess was a non-pass). A gentleman two people in front of me got two lot pitch beeps, but he still went through. The gentleman in front of me and I both recevied one high pitch beep, so they let us through. The math was this: the lane to our right which had the old process was scanning two people for every person scanned by the ID machine.

The machine had one single striper manning it. There were two vendor-looking people watching, and a double stripe was watching them. The two stripe followed me through the WTMD. I asked him why they would put that slow machine on the pre-check lane, and he said they were getting lots of fake ID's in the pre-check lanes. Whatever.

Did anyone else have the joy of experiencing the ID scanner today in Atlanta?