Originally Posted by Herb687
So assuming I don't want my expensive, just back from the dry cleaners, sport coat to be put in one of those filthy and occasionally smelly gray plastic bins, can I just wear it through the metal detector and opt for secondary screening instead?
Some of those plastic bins are positively disgusting.
I'm not a screener, but my understanding is that you can wear the coat through the metal detector. Then they will make you take it off when you reach the other side.
Additionally, they will touch you whereever they please, even if no alarm beeps. I'm assuming you are male: male searches can involve touching your nipples, feeling your genitals and massaging your backside.
You'll have to make your own call, but it's a humdinger of a catch-22. And I'm not sure that you'll save your coat from the gray bins; they might make you take the coat off and then walk it back and send it through the metal detector themselves.