Originally Posted by gooselee

Yeah, the BDL screening has always seemed ridiculous to me, especially because there is a perfectly functional belt behind the check in counters. But...this was also part of the BDL TSA incompetence I referenced in my OP. After getting my bag tagged by DL, I went to the TSA drop area where all four TSA agents were just standing around talking. I offered them my bag, and they told me to just leave it on the mat in front of the scanner (said mat being basically in the middle of the walkway in front of the ticket counters). I plopped it there next to another bag and started to walk away, then realized the TSA guys had no intent of actually doing anything with it. So I just kind of hung out across the way for a good 2-3 minutes watching my bag and others sit ignored and unattended.

Eventually one of the TSA guys started collecting the bags and dragging them into the screening area, but at that point I was done watching them so I never saw if they actually sent the bags through the machine. I wouldn't put it past them to have just slung the bags straight down to sortation because they couldn't be bothered to start up the scanner.