<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Spiff:
Both of my flights yesterday were plagued with disgusting random harassment at the gate. Thankfully, I was not selected for this abuse either time.
My patience with James Loy is wearing very thin. He has acknowledged how stupid this procedure is and how much the passengers hate it but it has still not been eliminated. 
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Though they have eliminated the routine gate screening, someone in their infinite wisdom decided that "random" gate checks would be a good thing. I call them drive by shootings. Regardless, I think it is a part of the seeming desire to be unpredictable so possible bad guys can't figure out the system.
I know that the screeners doing it, for the most part, are not real eager to be on the hit squad. They too seem to think it is an annoyance and would rather not be so intrusive. You'd be surprised what some of the screeners will tell you if you ask the right question.
