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Old Nov 10, 2006 | 12:52 am
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GUWonder
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Originally Posted by SNA_Flyer
Now really, why did you go through the trouble of alerting them to their mistake? I would have breathed a sigh of relief that I didn't need to get groped.
Bolding added by me in the following to show why he did what he did:

Originally Posted by PhlyingRPh
F this i thought and went through the metal detector, picked up my things and began to leave the checkpoint when I thought my actions might cause a terminal dump, and while I would like to make a monkey out of the fake security measures, I don't want thousands of people to be delayed/inconvenienced on my account.
He alerted them because he didn't want a terminal dump (aka "another knee-jerk overreaction") that would delay/inconvenience thousands of people.
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