Don't know about Spiff.

A deputy sheriff in CVG threatened to arrest me when I objected to the request of the screener that I undo my belt and open my pants. And we were ARRIVING from Europe, and TRYING TO LEAVE the airport. He even had the wit to suggest that I had "a dangerous weapon" down there... what a travesty!

I was quite reluctantly allowed a private screening (which is my right, but getting them to agree is like pulling teeth) in SDF after another such request.

My wife was threatened with arrest when she expressed the opinion that her "secondary" search was pointless and not "random". For expressing AN OPINION? This threatens airport security?

Some of those employees at airport insecurity have not been trained in their authority, our rights, or the purpose of what they do.

Just last month in Baltimore a restaurant employee insisted to me that a city ordinance required her to charge me a 20% gratuity! It was only after I asked them to call the REAL LIVE city police to confirm this that she backed down. She was definitely TSA material, I would say!

Power-tripping low level bureaucratic types get my goat, especially when they lie about their authority.

Even a couple of bad experiences at airport insecurity makes it unpleasant to anticipate. And those of us who fly often have more opportunities to suffer those bad experiences.

So we give you our opinions when we still HAVE to fly. Consider it a cost of doing business.