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Old Feb 22, 2005 | 10:16 pm
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omascreener
 
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Bellevue,Ne,USA
Posts: 164
Originally Posted by FemaleFlyer
I agree with Japhydog (and may be stretching his argument a bit, so please forgive the license, Japhydog) that it would be easier for a young person wearing baggy pants (has the TSA seen how baggy the pants are these days?) to take something inappropriate onboard than for a professional woman in a tailored suit.
I'm going to relate an incident I had last summer at the checkpoint. I'm also going to state that this isn't justification for secondary or not. Anyway I was in the wanding position at the checkpoint and at the time we were under pressure for always having someone being wanded. I selected a young man about 19 years old only for the sole reason he had baggy clothes on. When he came through the walk-through he did not alarm. I started the wanding procedure with him setting down and wanded his feet and lower legs with no alarm. However when I was doing the outline his pants were so baggy I had to have him pull them up and I also had touch the material to get close enough according to our SOP well low and behold when I got down to his ankles the wand hit something. I patted down the area and felt something taped to his leg. I called the supervisor and we took him into the private screening room and found that he had to plastic bottles of wine taped to his leg. And yes we let him keep them. Just thought I would relate the story.
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