Change your gloves, please!
 

Anyone ever asked a TSA inspector to put on fresh gloves?

I don't want gloves that might have been pawing through someone's dirty laundry & stinky underwear 2 minutes ago picking through my stuff, e.g. my toothbrush.

Can we make a habit of demanding that they don fresh gloves?

I want clean gloves on their hands for the same reason they're wearing them in the first place!!!

Brother, you hit the nail on the head! If TSA screeners indicate that they are going to paw through my bags, I insist on clean gloves. I do not want cross-contamination to make me sick because TSA is conducting a search without probable cause or even reasonable individualized suspicion of involvement in criminal activity on my property.

BTW, TSA screeners have told me that they wear gloves only to protect themselves. I have responded that I do not give a rodent's rear end about them, but rather am concerned about my health.

Yep! Request 'em!!! I was in MIA juat after 9/11 on holiday and requested them back then. Of course, I was met with a dirty look and a "It's going to take a while". I said "No problem. I'm early. I'll wait." :rolleyes:

I've rarely been through hand inspection, but I'll make sure I ask next time.
Thanks! ^

Both times they went through hand inspection, it was at ONT ( ^ ) they put on frsh gloves automatically. However this was a JetBlue Red-eye, so most going through security was for that flight.

Mark

P.S. ONT usually has REALLY good TSA people.

Has anyone's health been affected by these actions ?? Worse yet, has anyone die?

Are there that many germophobics out there??

Just curious....

Cheers,

J

I always insist on clean gloves. I don't want them pawing through your dirty underwear, then touching my contact lens solution.

Cool ... That was just a random thought as I was getting ready to leave for the airport. Didn't get inspected this time, but I will demand clean gloves when it happens, and so will my wife! :D

I saw that the screener was taking an awful lot of time in LGA last week looking at my carry-on on the screen so I expected to have to have my bag hand searched. I was right and was ready to ask the screener to put on clean gloves and he did it automatically.

Yes -- I do it all the time.

Even if you don't particularly care about the health aspects, make them change gloves just because you can.

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I highly doubt latex gloves are going to transfer some obscure disease. Anyway I always see the searchers put on new gloves...

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I stand corrected... :D

I can tell you at least this much. The number of persons whose health has been affected or have died is no fewer than the number of passengers that the TSO's at all of the TSA airport screening checkpoints have caught and been prosecuted for trying to hijack or take down a plane. :D