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Oct 27, 2010, 11:06 pm
#497
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: SYD (perenially), GVA (not in a long time)
Programs: QF PS, EK-Gold, Security Theatre Critic
Posts: 6,794
You don't need to remove your watch, unless, of course, you do need to remove it. As in the case of the Florida woman who was ordered to remove her watch before going through the checkpoint at Norfolk. Or any time a random TSA screener, making up rules randomly, says "you have to remove your watch." RadioBloke has been told at LAX that he had to remove his watch before going through the WTMD.
But by all means, please continue pretending that all screeners everywhere use the same rules.
Oct 28, 2010, 6:58 am
#499
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: IAD 19L
Programs: IHG; DL, JB, SW, UA, US, Ch, Crl, HzG, EmC, AmtGR regular; TSA Disp Tinfoil
Posts: 292
Oct 28, 2010, 7:00 am
#500
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: OOL/DOH
Programs: QF LTS WP, Avis Pres Club, HH Diam.
Posts: 3,192
Oct 28, 2010, 7:05 am
#501
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: RDU
Programs: OnePass
Posts: 772
Neither the Fossil watch I wear 95% of the time nor the Movado have made the WTMD alarm.
I don't recall any TSO asking me to take it off, and even if they did I'd have told them no.
Oct 28, 2010, 9:54 am
#503
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Posts: 418
Why do you advise people to do something that will result in their being invasively searched by a poorly trained, unprofessional TSA clerk?
Oct 28, 2010, 10:37 am
#505
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 3,004
Oct 28, 2010, 10:55 am
#506
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: PBI
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Posts: 1,746
Oct 28, 2010, 11:11 am
#507
Join Date: Sep 2009
Posts: 3,702
You don't need to remove your watch, unless, of course, you do need to remove it. As in the case of the Florida woman who was ordered to remove her watch before going through the checkpoint at Norfolk. Or any time a random TSA screener, making up rules randomly, says "you have to remove your watch." RadioBloke has been told at LAX that he had to remove his watch before going through the WTMD.
But by all means, please continue pretending that all screeners everywhere use the same rules.
Actually, I've never removed my watch and have never had a problem. And it's not like I hide it either, because I wear short sleeves 99% of the time when I travel.
Neither the Fossil watch I wear 95% of the time nor the Movado have made the WTMD alarm.
I don't recall any TSO asking me to take it off, and even if they did I'd have told them no.
Neither the Fossil watch I wear 95% of the time nor the Movado have made the WTMD alarm.
I don't recall any TSO asking me to take it off, and even if they did I'd have told them no.
Last edited by Kiwi Flyer; Oct 29, 2010 at 5:37 pm Reason: merge consecutive posts
Oct 28, 2010, 11:18 am
#508
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Nashville, TN
Programs: WN Nothing and spending the half million points from too many flights, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 8,043
As far as FT members go, you are usually one of the more intelligent, so I am amazed at your blunder here. I never said, implied or pretended that TSOs do not break or know their own procedures. ALL I did was to state policy when asked eariler in the thread. Please just stick to what I wrote. Thanks.
You know, if we could just see a copy of the rules, it would help us a lot. It might even help you. We really, really want to avoid hassles in the screening. If we knew the rules we could.
I know, SSI.
Oct 28, 2010, 11:20 am
#509
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Posts: 418
No, we know what one person claiming to be a TSA clerk says the policy is. And since TSA's poorly-trained, unprofessional clerks are empowered to make up any policy they wish at any time for any reason, that doesn't really help matters any.
Oct 28, 2010, 11:20 am
#510
Join Date: Sep 2009
Posts: 3,702
And generally, when I run across screeners that disagree with what the folks here have told us trying to be helpful, they are adamant that it is they that know the rules as well.
You know, if we could just see a copy of the rules, it would help us a lot. It might even help you. We really, really want to avoid hassles in the screening. If we knew the rules we could.
I know, SSI.
You know, if we could just see a copy of the rules, it would help us a lot. It might even help you. We really, really want to avoid hassles in the screening. If we knew the rules we could.
I know, SSI.
Last edited by Kiwi Flyer; Oct 29, 2010 at 5:36 pm Reason: merge consecutive posts