Originally Posted by
canadiancow
When I left PHX a while back, there were so many people taking shoes off, rearranging bag contents, etc. I walked to the front of the xray line, dumped my bag ahead of the 10 people standing around, and walked through the metal detector.
The first time I did this was at MCO when the obviously frustrated TSA agent just motioned for me to bypass the amateurs. Any time I’m in the same situation with a US flight, I do the same and have never had an issuse, at least with the TSA.