Originally Posted by Ghery

Rather than bash TSA (which is sort of like shooting fish in a barrel) I thought I'd point out a humorous incident with a screener at SFO yesterday. My wife and I had just cleared customs after arriving from Sydney and were going over to terminal 3 to catch our flight to Seattle. TSA people (rather than contractors) were checking ID and boarding passes, and the screener checking my wife's ID spent a lot of time flipping through the pages of her passport. Nothing on the pages, but they had her attention. Seems the brand new passports have nice illustrations of scenes of the US and each page is different and this screener hadn't seen one before. My ratty amost 5 year old passport with added pages didn't rate a second glance. Some of them are human, too.