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MKEbound Aug 13, 2010 1:14 pm

You exhibited the "super-secret" behaviors to trigger a SPOT response.

You were looking around/aware of your surroundings & made eye contact. -gasp-

Seriously, that's all you have to do to be suspicious :rolleyes:

goalie Aug 13, 2010 7:01 pm


Originally Posted by MKEbound (Post 14476484)
You exhibited the "super-secret" behaviors to trigger a SPOT response.

You were looking around/aware of your surroundings & made eye contact. -gasp-

Seriously, that's all you have to do to be suspicious :rolleyes:

and me wearing a sweater and heavy leather jacket* at las in july or august never ever gets me a second look. way to go spotty old boy...:rolleyes:



*my std flying clothes

TSORon Aug 14, 2010 3:08 pm


Originally Posted by testing1.2.3 (Post 14470261)
then i was thinking that maybe the manager thought he recognized me from a wanted picture in there break room (if that is possible). any thoughts? am i being paranoid or could i now be on a tsa list?

Wanted posters? LOL, this is the TSA, not the post office dude!


Originally Posted by IslandBased (Post 14471190)
Must have left discrete out of the BDO training....:rolleyes: to make time for the mystery terrorist recognition program.

Managers are not BDO’s, nor do they receive BDO training.
:rolleyes:

JSmith1969 Aug 14, 2010 3:28 pm


Originally Posted by TSORon (Post 14481584)
Managers are not BDO’s, nor do they receive BDO training.

And BDO training is useless nonsense, anyway.

IslandBased Aug 14, 2010 3:47 pm


Originally Posted by testing1.2.3
could have been spot - but the manager was soooo obvious about what he was doing. and that was the odd part, to me, that he did it right in front of me.

i would have thought that if i were being considered as a spot candidate he would have been trained to be discrete, same with the supervisor.

Originally Posted by IslandBased
Must have left discrete out of the BDO training....

Originally Posted by TSORon
Managers are not BDO’s, nor do they receive BDO training.

You missed a SPOT, TSORon....;)


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