Family visiting USA !
May 21, 2014, 4:02 pm
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Family visiting USA !
My sister is coming to USA for a visit. Her kids are a female born 91 a son 95 and a dughter 98. I told het what can happenen in airports. She told me she and her kids are blonde white so she thinks they are safe no touching. I told her not to count on it. She did dont like my answer and that she should pretty much not approve of it. Sad and scary that people have to be causious of not being touched. They are spending money here.
May 21, 2014, 4:47 pm
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No need to fear-monger your sister and her kids. Depending on where they are traveling from, they may find the security procedures much more invasive than in the US. As a practical matter and presuming that they've each got a BP and their passport in hand, they will most likely fly through the checkpoint and may even well be selected for random pre-check.
May 21, 2014, 4:57 pm
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No need to fear-monger your sister and her kids. Depending on where they are traveling from, they may find the security procedures much more invasive than in the US. As a practical matter and presuming that they've each got a BP and their passport in hand, they will most likely fly through the checkpoint and may even well be selected for random pre-check.
also not putting fear in her. My sister wants to know how to protect her kids from touching as her self.
May 21, 2014, 5:29 pm
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She told me she and her kids are blonde white
If TSA wants to do a pat-down, any resistance could be viewed as a threat to their authority and could escalate. As uncomfortable as it might be, failure to comply might mean - at a minimum - no flight. However, that being said, the chance of a pat-down is very remote, as Often1 said, especially for children (although it can happen).
May 21, 2014, 7:22 pm
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Why would this matter?
If TSA wants to do a pat-down, any resistance could be viewed as a threat to their authority and could escalate. As uncomfortable as it might be, failure to comply might mean - at a minimum - no flight. However, that being said, the chance of a pat-down is very remote, as Often1 said, especially for children (although it can happen).
If TSA wants to do a pat-down, any resistance could be viewed as a threat to their authority and could escalate. As uncomfortable as it might be, failure to comply might mean - at a minimum - no flight. However, that being said, the chance of a pat-down is very remote, as Often1 said, especially for children (although it can happen).
A lot of people think it is just stories that TSA would get "personal" with visiting tourists. Until it happens to them Those are the people who always say that they will never come back.
May 22, 2014, 10:45 am
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No need to fear-monger your sister and her kids. Depending on where they are traveling from, they may find the security procedures much more invasive than in the US. As a practical matter and presuming that they've each got a BP and their passport in hand, they will most likely fly through the checkpoint and may even well be selected for random pre-check.
The TSA groping sexual parts of passengers' bodies is unfortunately a daily and routine occurrence, and it is something passengers should expect as a substantial possibility of hitting themselves or a member of the travel party when going through screening at an airport where the TSA is generally in charge of the screening show.
May 22, 2014, 1:51 pm
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The irony of mentioning fear-mongering.
The TSA groping sexual parts of passengers' bodies is unfortunately a daily and routine occurrence, and it is something passengers should expect as a substantial possibility of hitting themselves or a member of the travel party when going through screening at an airport where the TSA is generally in charge of the screening show.
The TSA groping sexual parts of passengers' bodies is unfortunately a daily and routine occurrence, and it is something passengers should expect as a substantial possibility of hitting themselves or a member of the travel party when going through screening at an airport where the TSA is generally in charge of the screening show.
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May 22, 2014, 1:59 pm
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But also is this the way we great tourists/ yes I know that is how we do it.
But it is sick. Very sick. Her daughters would not do good at all.Neither would their parents. Last time USA would see this family.
Very remote? I got that everytime I travel. Also I do think females are more uncom. with this. Me if they would have been a inch more my VOIVCE would have been heard accross the whole airport. And I am mean the words "you just touched"... Would I be shy about not really. But pissed off big times i am even planning to leave USA with my uS family Cause they cant stand see it..
But it is sick. Very sick. Her daughters would not do good at all.Neither would their parents. Last time USA would see this family.
Why would this matter?
If TSA wants to do a pat-down, any resistance could be viewed as a threat to their authority and could escalate. As uncomfortable as it might be, failure to comply might mean - at a minimum - no flight. However, that being said, the chance of a pat-down is very remote, as Often1 said, especially for children (although it can happen).
If TSA wants to do a pat-down, any resistance could be viewed as a threat to their authority and could escalate. As uncomfortable as it might be, failure to comply might mean - at a minimum - no flight. However, that being said, the chance of a pat-down is very remote, as Often1 said, especially for children (although it can happen).
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May 22, 2014, 2:47 pm
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Why would this matter?
If TSA wants to do a pat-down, any resistance could be viewed as a threat to their authority and could escalate. As uncomfortable as it might be, failure to comply might mean - at a minimum - no flight. However, that being said, the chance of a pat-down is very remote, as Often1 said, especially for children (although it can happen).
If TSA wants to do a pat-down, any resistance could be viewed as a threat to their authority and could escalate. As uncomfortable as it might be, failure to comply might mean - at a minimum - no flight. However, that being said, the chance of a pat-down is very remote, as Often1 said, especially for children (although it can happen).
May 22, 2014, 3:41 pm
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There is nothing very remote about the TSA patting down or even groping teenage children who are born in 1998 or earlier -- those being relevant to the age of the children indicated by the OP -- when at a an airport where TSA is in charge of screening, especially as gropes are part of the TSA routine for even such passengers. While the TSA's rump grabs and groin rubs of diapered infants and toddlers has dropped off big time, the pat-downs and groping of even teenaged minors is still very much a real possibility and part of the TSA's routines.
May 22, 2014, 3:51 pm
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Maybe it time the whole family grows up a little then..... It's not a great experience but nothing to be shocked about either. Just act maturely or stay at home.... And please spare us the hysterics.
When flying a patdown can happen anywhere, just got my latest a few days ago in FRA. And I got over it.
When flying a patdown can happen anywhere, just got my latest a few days ago in FRA. And I got over it.
May 22, 2014, 4:28 pm
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Maybe it time the whole family grows up a little then..... It's not a great experience but nothing to be shocked about either. Just act maturely or stay at home.... And please spare us the hysterics.
When flying a patdown can happen anywhere, just got my latest a few days ago in FRA. And I got over it.
When flying a patdown can happen anywhere, just got my latest a few days ago in FRA. And I got over it.
Are you a female comfortable with random strangers playing with or around your mammaries/breasts/labia in the name of "authority"? A lot of women aren't used to this kind of "security" garbage at airports, and I don't welcome it happening to any ordinary passengers either. The patdowns that are normal at airports in say Asia or Africa or much of Europe are quite mild compared to the TSA's gropes and breast and groin examinations of ordinary passengers.
May 22, 2014, 6:21 pm
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I'm surprised you even invited them to visit. I know you've been adamant about telling your family to avoid the United States. Why don't they fly from the Sweden to Toronto, then drive across the border down to Miami, and do the reverse on return? Or they could do a trans-Atlantic cruise.
May 22, 2014, 7:51 pm
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I'm surprised you even invited them to visit. I know you've been adamant about telling your family to avoid the United States. Why don't they fly from the Sweden to Toronto, then drive across the border down to Miami, and do the reverse on return? Or they could do a trans-Atlantic cruise.
I have not invited them at all. They are going for a week to Miami. I live in CA. I am not going to go there since I dont have the time.
And no I have not told my family to avoid USA. I have just told them about security when they ask. But most things they can read on internet.
They dont have the time to do all what you suggest above.
May 22, 2014, 7:54 pm
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Maybe it time the whole family grows up a little then..... It's not a great experience but nothing to be shocked about either. Just act maturely or stay at home.... And please spare us the hysterics.
When flying a patdown can happen anywhere, just got my latest a few days ago in FRA. And I got over it.
When flying a patdown can happen anywhere, just got my latest a few days ago in FRA. And I got over it.