Originally Posted by
JohnMacWW
I think that ignoring an "official" whether they are airport-based contractors/employees or airline-based contractors/employees, is something you should do carefully. If you get away with it ( walking by them muttering Icelandic) fine, but if they say something very clear that is an order like
"Sir, stop where you are and come back here and size your bag" and you ignore that, you are taking a good risk of having a bad travel day. If that person is angry/difficult/ annoying enough, they might drag someelse into it that has clear authority. And that person is very likely to side with the contractor/ employee at least on the point that you should have obeyed their orders.
These are not "officials" - if a cashier at the airport Burger King yells at me that I can only take one ketchup packet and I take two, they have the same authority as the line dragon contractor.
I don't mind dealing with someone official - a bona fide employee of the airline is the person I would order the line dragon to summon if we had an escalating disagreement - and that is what I did when I ignored two LAX dragons guarding the line for Delta. I am 99% certain an airport police person is going to defer to the airline in a dispute over bag size - it's not their job to get involved in something like that unless you become verbally or physically abusive to the dragon.