Originally Posted by stockmanjr
This is quite different than what occured with the other person who was arrested.I'm kinda lost why they didnt cut open the thing right away to see what was in it?I mean that would have made everyones life easier! Sometimes these cops cross the line and dont think and certainly this is the case here.I'm sorry this happend to you eastwest and hopefully you can go after the idiot cop in the way of a lawsuit.I find the cop even more at fault than the TSA here..I'm not sure why it looked metalic on the xray I'm sure someone who has more expertise here could comment on that.
Cheers
howie
This may not be applicable to TSA-used x-ray machines, but a densely packed ball of rubberbands will be seen by some x-ray operators to look indistinguishable from a dense metallic solid on some x-rays. Same thing for a densely packed stack of magazines of certain paper stock.
Last edited by GUWonder; Oct 29, 2006 at 8:27 pm