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Old Mar 4, 2018, 11:11 am
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zitsky
 
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: RDU
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Originally Posted by KDS
Came through DTW today. Sign at TSA checkpoint said all electronics larger than cellphone need to be removed from bags and put into bins. I ignored it and kept my portable wifi router and other non-laptop electronics in my bag (spoiler: TSA did not flag them). However, TSA was VERY FOCUSED on books and food/snacks. My books had to be hand-inspected (not swabbed, surprisingly) and other people's bags of chips, containers of nuts, and candy bars had to be swabbed and rerun through the X-ray scanner.

Boy, flights from DTW today are REALLY safe..... what a joke.
It's slow because they have to write down what you're reading.


(kidding, I hope)
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