Spif,
What I was thinking, and again this may have wound down as of now, is that say you did the refundable ticket bp. Say you presented your real bp with SSS, but it did not have initials, stamp, or whatever on it. Airline agent gets paranoid, calls the police, and the police bring you back to the security checkpoint and ask if any of the screeners recognize you. Then what if they search your bag (can they sarch your person w/out a warrant?) and find you have these two boarding passes. The authorities might be suspicious that you are trying to evade security checks by getting this second boarding pass without the SSS. Maybe they would let you go, or again maybe in this paranoid way they do things now, they would take you in for questioning. There have been a lot of people detained by Ashcroft's justice department for less things than trying to get two boarding passes to avoid extra security screening. Just imagine the paranoia if they found you with two boarding passes for two unrelated flights. Is this scenario ever likely to happen? No, in all likelyhood they will assume you got screened properly at the checkpoint. The airline or the authorities will probably never even figure out that you got two boarding passes for different flights to avoid the extra SSS prompted screening. But if in the remote chance they did find out, it would be very suspicious that you went through all sorts of trouble to avoid the extra screening. Think like a cop, they have to wonder, what the h**k is this person trying to hide from us not accepting the SSS screening, and why would he go to such trouble to avoid it. Surely because there is criminal activity of some sort. It is like if you ran the other way when you saw a cop, they would get suspicious no matter if you were doing anything wrong or not because the action seems suspicious. Again I am not saying this will happen, but if it did, I could see them taking someone in for hours of questioning.