Originally Posted by
Boggie Dog
If I write one of my representatives it would be to suggest that all people are screened using Pre Check standards as a starting point. Conventional WTMD's and X-ray of carry on items is adequate for 99.999% of all travelers. If an individual alarms then address that situation.
Pre Check is a sucker bet if there ever was one.
One pays to be trusted but TSA doesn't honor that agreement or even offer the service all the time. If people would stop carrying water for TSA then TSA would be forced to either extend the program to everyone or relax regular screening.
Don't forget the whole purpose of TSA's Pre Check was to reduce the screeners workload.
This.
Sounds like the TSOs in the OP were lazy and resented a fully-utilized Pre lane.
It's also time to start actually asking TSOs to focus on
threats. Not water bottles, not 1/3 full tubes of toothpaste, not frosted cupcakes or nitro pills or Buzz Lightyear Grip Toys or Harry Potter wands: actual threats. TSA need to acknowledge that on an average day, other than guns or (possibly) large knives or machetes, TSA's 'bonus bins' should be completely empty - because other than guns or large knives/machetes, nothing they are throwing in those trash bins could be used to take down a plane or even to harm another person. (Of course, if you are a Monty Python fan, you will know the dangers posted by a banana).
They're failing the Red Team tests because they're looking for 'l-shaped' objects with handles ("gun replicas") and expensive perfume bottles. They find what they're told to look for.