This is the one thing I hate more than the shoe carnival or great pointy object search (right up there with the groping, though I haven't personally encountered that yet).

Having to remove my precious PowerBook G4 from my Targus case is an asinine policy. My case isn't made of lead. If you can't sort it all out on the x-ray display you need better training. Perhaps some cross-training time with our friends across the pond at LHR would do the TSA well.

Ultimately, few things make me madder (at the airport) than seeing my G4 bounce down the rollers in an unpadded plastic bin and get bumped by other people's oversized rollaboards.