Originally Posted by the_happiness_store

I was at ORD on the morning of 11/03/2007 trying to depart on an AA flight. The security lines were not that long but they were infinitely slow. All the lines in Terminal 3 were slow with very few customers. I would normally have expected to clear security in 5 minutes, in 25 minutes I have moved about 10 yards and there are still 20 yards to go. A gentleman behind gets called over for extra screening. He gets screened and he is through all of security in about 3 minutes.

What a lousy system.