Originally Posted by cur

It's because they want to avoid the automatic secondaries given for a 100ml liquor overage.
If I had NEXUS, I would take great pleasure in using the machines in an empty hall with 20 agents at pil.


1) you have way too much time on your hands. maybe you should take some ot on your days off.
2) little has changed. controlling the flow of pax at a dinky airport like YYC is important. however, the YVR style of getting up from PIL in the middle of a flight is abhorrent. i wrote that post before i was stood up twice in a week by YVR BS officers during the azn flight rush, right in front of the superintendent and chief.
3) i'm not anti BSA. i'm anti dimwit BSo. unfortunately, the proportion of those in this agency higher than other agencies. CBSAguy likely knows (and dreads) these people. like the Jamacian woman at YYZ T1 who becomes hostile when you can't understand her incomprehensible accent, the guys behind the counter in YYC in the early afternoon who automatically send questions to the BIS line, the 20-something BSOs in YVR who never smile. There are many great BSOs out there, and I see them frequently. The dimwits, however, I only run into once. Funny how that happens.


I have no issue with authority. I have no issue with someone carrying out their duties as defined within the law, and I am together with BSOs who promote a model of responsible enforcement.
I do, however, have issues with yappy dogs who carry batons who see me as a threat or who take great pleasure in enforcing the rules irresponsibly. I don't automatically engage with a BSO. The smart ones would put me in my place. The stupid ones are just way too easy to have fun with.