Originally Posted by
iluv2fly
I just went through security 15 minutes ago in LAS.
My bag was flagged and removed from the belt. The officer said he has to look in it to find something. When he opened it up, he said that he found the problem.
I was a soft-cover book about an inch thick.
I feel much safer now.
I had a similar experience at LAX last week. My bag with about a week's worth of The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and a hard bound cookbook (approx. 250 pages) was flagged for inspection. The TSO took no further action once she noticed the amount of printed material in the bag.
The same bag passed through security at ORD and CLE without further inspection (the cookbook was gone by the time that we left CLE). I finally caught up on my reading on the flights home, but now I have another stack that accumulated during that trip.