I was at PHX yesterday. As soon as I went through X-ray gate, the woman said to me "Random check." Well, my laptop just came out on the conveyor and just sitting there. There were so many other passengers around me - I wanted to pick it up before someone takes (by mistakes) or grabs and run away.

I said to the woman quietly - "OK, Give me 2 seconds - I would like to pick up my pc and put it aside, then I don't have to worry about losing it." She did not listen to me at all and started screaming at me - she might have not understood my explanation or was simply not smart enough?

It is a sad fact that some not-that-smart people are in charge of airport security. Terrorist people would be much smarter than them...

I managed to ask my colleague to pick up my PC - there were like 5+ other PCs just came out of the conveyor and 10+ passengers around.

Sigh...