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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: LAX
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Heard a loud beep as I walked through the metal detector at LAX this morning. It was different sound than the alert the when metal is detected.
I was asked to step aside. Another TSO came and asked me if I had a computer in my carry on bag. I replied that I did. She instructed me to let her know when my bag comes out of the x-ray machine because she needed to swab my computer. No problem. My bag was already out. I got it, took the computer out and informed her that I was still waiting for my jacket with my wallet in it; it was a few bins behind my rollaboard. She went and got the jacket for me and then proceeded to swab my computer and test the strip for explosives. The whole process added perhaps 90 seconds to the screening procedure.