Hello weero - you seem to be the only one here with lack of knowledge and doubt. I suggest that if you want to know more, you can find it on your own.

Best regards, and good luck in your search for information.

Iy very much looks like that.

Silly me, since the turn of the millennium, I have never gotten an LH BP issued by LH without the unified stock color. So I was of course hoping you could recall when and where you got that unique BP.

It's not mine. You can find the owner the same way I did.

You haven't seen the original - you googled it :eek: ?

I'm not wasting anymore time on your foolish skepticism. If you have such doubt, why don't you find the evidence to prove all of us wrong?

What do you mean with skepticism :confused::confused::confused: ?

If you tell me that you have seen that original BP, I won't contest it or ask for evidence.

And you are at the source of that information, a simple "no" would have been a lot shorter than your dismissive post :rolleyes: .
This not how burden of proof works - those who assert that some rare event does happen have to provide evidence of that occurrence. Those of us who have never seen it and think it's BS do not.

Now given that the Wikipedia entry for the "Secondary Security Screening Selection" states that the SSSS is a US only measure and administrated by the TSA, I feel that mu skepticism is more than warranted.

You are going to hang your hat on Wikipedia?

I don't care. Believe whatever you want

I know that isn't directed to me, but I personally don't see why the US wouldn't be able to bully foreign airports into having the SSSS thing. As to what I believe, I believe I would like to hear more about the response to the OP's complaint, when and if the OP gets a response and then shows back up to report it. If the OP gets some kind of decent response, that will be a big step forward in reining in renegade TSA clerks.

I know .... but in the total absence of any hard data, it beats guessing ... I guess?
Haha that is convincing :D ^^^ !

I prefer to believe what I can substantiate, 'want' comes second, prejudice third.
Yes that could absolutely happen. Famous examples are the x-ray scanners and the shoe searches in AMS and secondaries at many European airports (famous failed examples were the no-GPS map for Chinese carriers) but usually, these examples make ample press and while the European countries historically are weak and spineless there is lots of coverage of these 'negotiations'.

I hence do not think that asking for evidence or at least examples is unreasonable.

I have no evidence, but I can guarantee you it happens.

I don't recall if my BP had an SSSS - I was a bit pressed for time when I finally got to head for the gate to board.

I couldn't check in at the kiosk, that's happened before. What followed has not. An agent came over, takes my passport, next thing I know, she's back wanting details about my trip. She asked where I stayed and then asked for reservation details and receipts. Lots of back and forth, a couple more agents, then I get escorted to the checkpoint, full bag search, etc.

I clear passport control, head for the last document check before the gates and...it's not over yet. Remove shoes, full wanding followed by a patdown (not a grope, a patdown) and my carry-ons completely emptied and run through the xray scanner there in the concourse.

I have zero memory of what was on my BP or even when they actually handed it to me. Whether or not it actually had SSSS on it or not, there's no doubt whatsoever in my mind that it was SSSS. It actually makes more sense to handle it this way - ie, don't even let the pax check-in before pulling them aside. There has been speculation that a bad guy in the US seeing SSSS on his BP would obviously change his plans. It really never did make sense to tip a potential bad guy off this way.

This was MAD. US carrier. I had recently traveled to IST.

Not flying. I've been through that screening probably 200 times by now. Are you sure it's not your emotions getting the better of you? Why did you get a second screening exactly?

Do you ever fly through DEN?

Do you believe the male pax who were singled out for a sexual grope by a male screener were 'whiners'? Or do you believe that the TSO inspector who witnessed it in action was the victim of his emotions??

Do you believe those male pax who were singled out did something wrong that you don't do and that's why they deserved to be singled out for the type of groping you have apparently never experienced, not once in 200 times?

(bolding mine)

Madness indeed.

Do you even know what the OP is talking about? Doesn't seem like it.