<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by FliesWay2Much:
I was selected about 75% of the time until I got smart and read right here on FT about the techniques people have used to avoid it. I wait for some unlucky individual to be picked and make sure I time my entry into line so I make it past the gate agent before they are finished. My record of getting through since I've adopted this procedure is 100% non-selection.</font>
I don't know what it is that makes me get picked so often for the "random" screening, but maybe since my ethnic background is an Asian Pacific Island where Muslim (sic) rebels have been turning kidnapping into a growth industry may have something to do with it?
I follow all the "rules". I make sure I am not first in line, I try and time my place in line to make sure that the screeners are busy when I get to the ticket reader, I don't fly one way with tickets purchased for cash etc. I still get chosen and sent over for the cavity search, even when there are already a bunch of people already waiting to be searched. One time, I was just a face in the line waiting to board when the gate agent walked directly over to me, pulled me out of line and sent me to be screened!?!?
[This message has been edited by onedog (edited 09-14-2002).]