Originally Posted by ozstamps

In the last months 3 of my $15 bag padlocks have been busted open and ruined by those overpaid morons with TSA on their jackets.

I guess all other UA pax do feel safer that my jeans and tshirts and sweaters are now neutralised and no longer pose a security risk of exploding in mid air or wafting Sarin gas all over the lower 48.

Why the folks in the USA put up with this jackbooted authoritarian cr*p amazes me. In many areas the USA is more of a police state that some of the tin pot 4th world dictatorships they keep warning everyone else about. three goons checking your boarding pass in 10 yards is just insanity.

Common sense security we need to have. This madness no-one needs.

And I bet UA had no say in thr matter, sadly.