Bart: Here are a little more facts for you. My friend was travelling on standby for his vacation, as he is a purser with a major North American carrier.
When he did not make the flight (it was full) he returned to the counter to try with another carrier, and was subjected to the exact same treatment a second time around -the same night, by the same very rude screener. Tjhis person even wanded his bare legs a couple of time with the pants on the ground!! I mean- Isn,t this a bit much?

I can assure you that there was absolutely NO provocation on his part, precisely because he works for an airline ( and he has a reputation as being one of the most easy-going polite persons around). He knows the drill and was, as I stated, very cooperative from the start. In fact that is why he was afraid of commenting or complaining: since he must go through this sometimes several times a day, he is ( as many flight crews I know) very afraid to cause any type of incident which could bring him difficulties at work in the future.

Thank you for the information about bringing a supervisor etc, but that is precisely the situation he would avoid at all cost for fear of being tagged in any way and encountering further harassment when he is working and on thigh schedule. It is clearly a no win situation, but it still needs to be reported somehow. Where can one write about this, now that it is after the fact and he did not get anybody's name?
Thanx- (edited for clarification)