I flew out of MSP on Monday afternoon and thought the checkpoint was rather subdued.

Subdued as in medicated or dejected? ;)

Dejected. Sort of like when a dept head pulls everyone in and screams at them for a couple hours.

Ahh, but TSA already has an answer for this. Consider their official statement:

So, if you confront a TSO with this document when they don't follow it, the answer could likely be "this document isn't the current SOP, and I'm following the current SOP --- which I'm not allowed to show you because it's SSI, so you'll have to trust me".

We know that the SOP is SSI. It's reasonable to conclude that the SOP has changed somewhat since this document was produced. So, that leaves us exactly where we were before ... TSOs following procedures which aren't available to the public, with therefore no public accountability for following those procedures correctly.

I wouldn't know how that feels, being self-employed. Perhaps this was over something else on Monday- a bit early for a chew out about the leak. Maybe they had just failed another test or something...

Nope
 

Nothing to report. It was slow day too

You know, I gave that some thought actually as I was reading the earlier part of the thread. I cam to the conclusion that I highly doubt that the most TSO's would be aware enough of this happening, AND of the TSA response to give me that line. I am more interested in just the gut kneejerk reaction that would take place when you whipped out a copy. I am not brave enough to test Tom's idea of just putting a copy in the bin through the Xray.


They Can't even follow their published procedures :D you seriously think having the rules published would have any impact?

In some cases, yes. It would certainly deflate some of the puffery that goes on occasionally (as oft reported here and elsewhere) when a TSO says "I know the rules, you're wrong", even if the TSO is in fact demonstrably wrong. Granted, that's about one step too late in the process. But, over time, it might have an impact.

Of course, I'm known around my workplace as the eternal optimist ... :)

FTers like to travel light, so why lug that 93 page manual around.

How about a Trollkiller designed t-shirt with this big image on the front? :D

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c2...f873hf874r.jpg

I wonder what would happen if a passenger encountered this, whipped out the document on dead tree, and told the TSO to "show me where"?

I suspect the reaction would be doubleplusungood.

Print it 2-sided with two pages per side and it's not so big. It's also still legible.

Sadly, the first pax who tries it will be standing in front of a TSO who thinks he has found the bling award worthy Big Catch™ of the Year.

[screaming :eek:] "LEO!!!! Over here, NOW!!!! I found The Guy who hacked that there government web site and stole our SOP!!!! [/screaming :eek:]

The TSO that pulls a stunt like that, his next uniform will either be a barrel or an orange prison jumpsuit.

The LEO that helps with the stunt is going to be undercover at gay bath houses until retirement. Wearing a barrel with the bunghole over his butt.