Originally Posted by jar
I have no problem with bags being opened, but I do think TSA could take more care resealing bags. I have one of those hard shell ski carriers. It's a pretty simple mechanism, just a hole that has to be lined up on the two halves of the shell and a simple hook put in. On two trips in the last year the bag was not closed correctly. I never have lost any skis or poles, but the bag has come in almost open in one case.
What they could possibly think was in there after an x-ray is beyond me, but that's a different question.
If you have read any of the "please stop bashing TSA" threads, you will see that many of the TSA personnel who post here believe that their only job is to "protect us from terrorists", and not to be accountable to the public for acting appropriately as public servants. Thus, when they finish rifling through your stuff, they don't care one whit what happens afterward (oh and you might recall that not only do they not care what happens afterward, some of them might just 'disappear' some of your stuff in the bargain). (And no, I'm not accusing ALL TSA of doing this.)