Originally Posted by
jkhuggins
The OP confirms it in a later posting.
But she didn't say it in her original post. You made the assumption that the screener offered to test it. You got off lucky with that one.
Shall we recap all of the FlyerTalk postings where a TSO tells a passenger "Oh, gee, sorry, you can't take this item with you, I'll just throw it away for you out of your sight", and then we accuse the TSO of simply stealing the item instead of throwing it away?
I've been reading FT for years and don't recall an instance of a commenter stating that a screener took an item out of sight of the commenter in order to throw away that item. I do, however, recall a couple of posts wherein a screener put an allegedly forbidden item on a shelf or storage area under the belt but did so in full view of the passenger.