Originally Posted by
RadioGirl
Thanks for your efforts to educate them, but it's true about "many more to go." The Australian airport model is certainly based on "as soon as you've finished with one victim, pick the next person who comes through."
In one* airport I use a smaller checkpoint where I know that I won't set off the WTMD with my metal hip, but there's usually only a few other passengers there. I'm getting very good at adjusting the rate of repacking my laptop bag, while watching the ETD person in my peripheral vision, to let someone else get "randomly" selected for the swab.
Security at the international terminal in AKL used to do this, but switched to "as soon as you've finished with one victim, pick the next person at the x-ray". The difference being if you are selected no fumbling or other tactics will disuade the screener from testing you. There are still ways around this, but much harder.