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Aug 21, 2006 | 6:20 pm

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Join Date: Oct 2004

Location: DFW

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Originally Posted by TierFlyer

I refuse to release my laptop through the x-ray machine until I'm clear to go through the metal detector.

TSA sometimes insist and have tried to grab it. I keep ahold of the gray bin and just look at them and say: "Someone tried to steal my laptop at DFW last year during screening and now I never let it get ahead of me. Luckily TSA grabbed them, but I would have lost my job. See, it's free now, thanks and have a nice day."

I do the same thing. I will not go through the metal detector until my possessions are safely in the xray machine. Along with a laptop I wear an expensive watch and I have a new Treo 700 that wasn't cheap either.

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