Originally Posted by n5667
A fatty won't set off the machine, it depends on how hard and forceful the "brush" is.
Sorry, there is plenty of documented evidence and a bajillion more anecdotal events posted here that say this is not correct.
I am a tall guy with wide shoulders - I have to walk through with my hands glued to the side of my thighs to make it through without setting off the scanner. 6'4" 225# with a 36" waist. I'd like to see someone a little larger in other places make it through without setting off the scanner. When a very slight brush of my hairy knuckles
do it, what about a little more heft from a cheek or something else?