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Old Jul 25, 2003 | 10:18 am
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by sowalsky:
I understand that pre-TSA-insanity you can actually take a flight if you do not have ID; you just must submit to a very invasive search. Is this still true?</font>
Yes, they've just expanded the very invasive searches to people with IDs as well

I showed up at OAK a few months ago without a valid ID. At check-in, the agent accepted an old student ID and gave me a "*SSS*" boarding pass (to replace my regular-security one). I got to the front of the security line and tried to explain that I didn't have a valid ID, but the woman there just kept repeating "ID please." So I showed her the same expired student ID. She procedded to chastise me for pretending I didn't have a valid, government issued, ID...

So I could have used a check-in machine, my expired student ID, and skipped the very invasive search.
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