Originally Posted by
chollie
Maybe they were confiscating his heart meds.
I can honestly see someone gasping and begging for a lifesaving med and a TSos standing there denying the meds because they think the pax is faking and about to do something dastardly with the meds.
Although I can't find it now, there was a report yesterday of a passenger fainting at a checkpoint and TSA screeners basically doing nothing about it other than to harass other travelers.