Originally Posted by venice4504
What's it called when they scan your bag and then ask if they can go through it? I got that yesterday LAX-SEA. Lady said that they had to "check something". Ended up that my electric toothbrush accidently was pushed on and she thought that it was a ticking sound...uh...nope...kinda sounds like a toothbrush. They even sent it though the scanner again...so dumb.
It means they weren't quite sure what it was. When we look at your bag, its not like we get a 3-D picture. Say you had a camera and the electric toothbrush was lying on top of it. We can't distinguish that there are 2 items. So a manuel check is the way to go. That's why you'll see screeners showing the x-ray person different items. They obviously weren't really worried about it or it would have been swiped for explosives. But I must say, all of the vibrating things I've come across have NOT been toothbrushes.
