Originally Posted by Delta Hog

Leaving STL with wife, wife hasn't travelled since the whole liquids thing in 2006. Her backpack has a couple of small pharmaceutical items in them that qualify as "liquid."

After a bag search, the TSA agent says "these are supposed to be carried in clear plastic bags. But here, we have some extra baggies you can use to put them in." Whereupon he places the items in the TSA plastic bag and returns them to my wife's backpack.



If the whole point of placing the liquids in clear plastic bags is to speed up the screening process and allow the screener to see the items without the necessity of a bag search.... what is the point of putting the items in a plastic bag after a full bag search, then letting us go on our way?