Originally Posted by goalie

try this one......and it happpened this past memorial day w/e

i was returning las-sfo and took a bump from the 4pm to the 6pm and guess what-i got ssss'd on my "new flight". the gate agent was dumbfounded and couldn't figure out how to remove it-which i told him not to as he would probably get in big trouble. he made a phone call to find out what to do and he was told to tell me that i had to return to the tsa check point for screening. neither one of us could believe that so i had him tell the person on the phone that i very politely (seriuosly-not sarcastically) refused and that i would surrender my i/d and bags to the g/a and wait for tsa to come to me but i was not, as a previously screeded pax who was now inside the sterile and secure area, going to return to the checkpoint unattended.

the result, 5 tsa folks and 1 leo showed up (after 40 minutes ). the tsa folks were b/s because i didn't follow procedure by returning to the checkpoint and the leo had to keep himself from laughing at the whole situation. afterwards, he joined me in the smoking room for a quick one and he said i was absolutely correct as if i was now "deemed a security risk" because of the "aftermarket ssss", i needed to be kept/politely detained where i was.

so given my situation and the others mentioned above, the sugestion that bart made of having a way to remove "aftermarket ssss", is the right, and most logical way to go