Excessive swiping: common retaliation or just more ABQ stupidity?
May 30, 2012, 8:25 pm
#16
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Join Date: Dec 2010
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Fortunately, it was only my 50mm f/1.8 that had the polarizer on it, so it was a few minutes of pure entertainment - like watching a raccoon try to wash the stickiness off of a marshmallow.
May 30, 2012, 9:03 pm
#17
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Nashville, TN
Programs: WN Nothing and spending the half million points from too many flights, Hilton Diamond
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At the inevitable bag check:
TSO: So, what kind of tools are these?
INK: Vibration analysis.
TSO: What kind of work do you do?
INK: Vibration analysis.
TSO: What does that involve?
INK: Analyzing vibration.
[Then comes the inevitable question that has a certain wrong answer. It must be in their training films. You know, the ones they did not sleep through.]
TSO: Oh, you mean like explosions? [Insert curious look here.]
INK: No, machines.
TSO: [Disappointed look]. Thank you.
TSO: So, what kind of tools are these?
INK: Vibration analysis.
TSO: What kind of work do you do?
INK: Vibration analysis.
TSO: What does that involve?
INK: Analyzing vibration.
[Then comes the inevitable question that has a certain wrong answer. It must be in their training films. You know, the ones they did not sleep through.]
TSO: Oh, you mean like explosions? [Insert curious look here.]
INK: No, machines.
TSO: [Disappointed look]. Thank you.
May 31, 2012, 9:20 pm
#18
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Northern VA
Posts: 1,007
At the inevitable bag check:
TSO: So, what kind of tools are these?
INK: Vibration analysis.
TSO: What kind of work do you do?
INK: Vibration analysis.
TSO: What does that involve?
INK: Analyzing vibration.
[Then comes the inevitable question that has a certain wrong answer. It must be in their training films. You know, the ones they did not sleep through.]
TSO: Oh, you mean like explosions? [Insert curious look here.]
INK: No, machines.
TSO: [Disappointed look]. Thank you.
TSO: So, what kind of tools are these?
INK: Vibration analysis.
TSO: What kind of work do you do?
INK: Vibration analysis.
TSO: What does that involve?
INK: Analyzing vibration.
[Then comes the inevitable question that has a certain wrong answer. It must be in their training films. You know, the ones they did not sleep through.]
TSO: Oh, you mean like explosions? [Insert curious look here.]
INK: No, machines.
TSO: [Disappointed look]. Thank you.
May 31, 2012, 10:17 pm
#19
Join Date: Dec 2010
Posts: 2,425
At the inevitable bag check:
TSO: So, what kind of tools are these?
INK: Vibration analysis.
TSO: What kind of work do you do?
INK: Vibration analysis.
TSO: What does that involve?
INK: Analyzing vibration.
[Then comes the inevitable question that has a certain wrong answer. It must be in their training films. You know, the ones they did not sleep through.]
TSO: Oh, you mean like explosions? [Insert curious look here.]
INK: No, machines.
TSO: [Disappointed look]. Thank you.
TSO: So, what kind of tools are these?
INK: Vibration analysis.
TSO: What kind of work do you do?
INK: Vibration analysis.
TSO: What does that involve?
INK: Analyzing vibration.
[Then comes the inevitable question that has a certain wrong answer. It must be in their training films. You know, the ones they did not sleep through.]
TSO: Oh, you mean like explosions? [Insert curious look here.]
INK: No, machines.
TSO: [Disappointed look]. Thank you.
Jun 1, 2012, 4:06 am
#20
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: ZRH - Zurich Switzerland. I like my local Airport. Wake-up at 0500uhr. Airside and through Security 80 minutes later after Shower, Breakfast and 10km Train ride. That is good!
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Posts: 53
Jun 1, 2012, 11:03 am
#23
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 729
First time poster here.
At EWR a couple of weeks ago, I got pulled aside at the checkpoint because I had "too many coins" in my bag. I cannot blame TSA for wanting to investigate the mass of metal they had detected, but a TSO proceeded to swab each of the coins. This was quite scary! What if TSA had detected traces of explosives on one or more of the coins? Coins pass through thousands and thousands of hands. I might very well have received the offending coins in change at a shop in EWR minutes earlier. Could I really have been detained based on such weak "evidence"? I fear so. The "evidence" would not hold up in court, but I don't think TSA is concerned with that. TSA has to make sure that I am not a terrorist, so I would certainly have been detained.
At EWR a couple of weeks ago, I got pulled aside at the checkpoint because I had "too many coins" in my bag. I cannot blame TSA for wanting to investigate the mass of metal they had detected, but a TSO proceeded to swab each of the coins. This was quite scary! What if TSA had detected traces of explosives on one or more of the coins? Coins pass through thousands and thousands of hands. I might very well have received the offending coins in change at a shop in EWR minutes earlier. Could I really have been detained based on such weak "evidence"? I fear so. The "evidence" would not hold up in court, but I don't think TSA is concerned with that. TSA has to make sure that I am not a terrorist, so I would certainly have been detained.
Jun 1, 2012, 11:11 am
#24
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Vancouver, BC
Programs: AA EXP 3MM, FB Plat, AS Gold, Marriott Gold, Fairmont Plat, BA wannabe
Posts: 684
First time poster here.
..... What if TSA had detected traces of explosives on one or more of the coins? Coins pass through thousands and thousands of hands. I might very well have received the offending coins in change at a shop in EWR minutes earlier.
.......Could I really have been detained based on such weak "evidence"?
..... What if TSA had detected traces of explosives on one or more of the coins? Coins pass through thousands and thousands of hands. I might very well have received the offending coins in change at a shop in EWR minutes earlier.
.......Could I really have been detained based on such weak "evidence"?
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Jun 1, 2012, 11:51 am
#25
Join Date: Dec 2010
Posts: 53
I've been fortunate so far in that the only 'full bag swiping' has been when the preliminary swiping had a false positive caused by a dirty machine. (When she wipes the machine after my positive, and it alarms - it's pretty obvious it's NOT me or my stuff causing the alarm!)