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Old Jul 31, 2006 | 3:39 pm
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gre
 
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Originally Posted by Spiff
If you brush against the side of the WTMD as you pass through it, regardless of your size, it will alarm.
Is that how the TSA's set it off when they want to? During a discussion about my shoes recently aTSA said "hold up your foot" (into the WTMD);
the TSA pointed down as if at my shoe and the detector went off. I'd be willing to bet he actually brushed the side.
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