Originally Posted by LessO2
I've had the same thing happen to me at YYZ. All that is based on whether your bag comes out of the chute when there's an available inspector. The only difference was how they made me stand in front of the inspector. I folded my arms in front of him, not even saying a word, and that bothered the inspector. That made me very happy. He didn't even bother seeing what was at the bottom of my bag, which bothered me, because why bother searching if it's only going to be a quasi-search? Then, when he tried to zip up my Travel Pro bag, he noticed one of the zipper tags were missing. I told him that tags was there before my last open bag inspection.
They too have a stupid boarding pass requirement coming into the USA. Once before you even think about entering Customs, then to the Immigration guy for stamping, then again at the WTMD.
YYZ has outsourced security. I heard they stopped the "random" gate inspections, which I am happy about too.
In fairness, I was talking LAX TO YYZ, not the opposite. But sounds liked your only problem above was once they decided to search your bags, they didn't do as good a job as you thought they should?
Sounds like you had some issues above which I'm not going to get into because I'm not in a position to address.
However, I will address the boarding pass requirement - welcome to the USA. Exact same stuff is required flying w/in most airports in the US - duh. At least at YYZ you have the excuse of int'l.
BTW - in other countries I've been in they take this stuff even more seriously - you need to explain some of your stamps, which is ok w/ me. Means they're paying more attention than our (somewhat) token efforts at terrorism.
I actually feel more secure going through overseas (Europe) security than I do in US. YMMV. Cheers. Sharon