Originally Posted by Bart
Believe as you wish. I know my screeners. I do have some who try to catch everything they perceive as prohibited, real or imagined. Most of the others focus on things like bombs, guns and knives...you know, the stuff that really presents a danger.
I've been very open and honest in this forum by sharing some insights. If you want to believe that we aren't seeing these threats, then I'll allow you this perception.
I was replying to a post you made in which you seemed to imply that specifically banned items were being allowed to pass through, as in from msg #175:
Originally Posted by Bart
but, as with lighters, we are also allowing it
I take this to mean that you are spotting prohibited items but letting them through?
What I was getting at was that (lighters for instance) the only way they were getting through was because people had them squirrled away in non-spottable locations.
That is why I tossed in at the end of the post that perhaps this 'allowing' was in the 'look the other way' mindset.
The point I was trying to make, and I thought I clarified this, was that a prohibited item is prohibited no matter the actual threat. Thus I was questioning the blanket assertion that prohibited items were being allowed.