Originally Posted by myrgirl

Actually, it is very much our business as well as the business of the others on the plane. How do we know that a pax alarmed the mag because of their shoes or belt or the countless other tiny pieces of metal they insist is the culprit like bras and wedding rings? Because they say so? How do we know there's not a gun strapped to their thigh or a knife in their sock? What about the person waving their medical card in our face and saying they have a metal knee therefore they shouldn't be screened? We have to clarify that the metal is indeed their knee and not a weapon.