What to do with luggage key
Oct 13, 2012 | 11:07 pm
#16
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 966
Many (most?) reports have screeners getting pretty snippy if they think you're taking measures to keep them from going through your stuff without your permission, and getting indignant over the implied insult - that they aren't trustworthy. The irony of this goes straight over their heads, as they ignore the proof that many screeners *ARE* untrustworthy, and as they treat each and every passenger they screen as a potential terrorist until temporarily proven not-guilty.
Oct 14, 2012 | 11:40 am
#17
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: LAS
Posts: 1,532
Quoted for relevance, emphasis added: "The TSO was rummaging through my bag with her back to me, without my permission or my ability to observe her, at a table about 8 feet away from where I stood on my side of the X-ray belt."
Many (most?) reports have screeners getting pretty snippy if they think you're taking measures to keep them from going through your stuff without your permission, and getting indignant over the implied insult - that they aren't trustworthy. The irony of this goes straight over their heads, as they ignore the proof that many screeners *ARE* untrustworthy, and as they treat each and every passenger they screen as a potential terrorist until temporarily proven not-guilty.
Many (most?) reports have screeners getting pretty snippy if they think you're taking measures to keep them from going through your stuff without your permission, and getting indignant over the implied insult - that they aren't trustworthy. The irony of this goes straight over their heads, as they ignore the proof that many screeners *ARE* untrustworthy, and as they treat each and every passenger they screen as a potential terrorist until temporarily proven not-guilty.