Hey RSSrsvp,

Thanks for the effort, but:

Do you understand now why people might not want to have their threads started in or moved to this forum?

Sometimes the ill-informed sheep that wander through airports just like to have nice, polite conversations while wallowing in our ignorant bliss. As much as we love Flytalk and appreciate your efforts, hijacking us over to deal with these folks is sometimes just a little too rude.

Oh Well,

Cheers,
OPos.

Discussion of Moderator actions is a TOS violation. @:-)

I saw screeners in MLB one day last year doing this to any visible liquids carried onto the plane. I asked them about it between boarding zones and they said they were doing it primarily to try out the new liquid screening test. They said TSA eventually wants to allow liquids through the checkpoint again, so they've been trying it out at gate checks to make sure the liquid screening test works as expected and is simple enough for TSO' to use. They said they didn't expect to find anything, and weren't concerned with letting liquids not visible inside bags through untested.

Keep in mind, this info came from small-town TSO's, but it seemed like a reasonable explanation to me.

Seeing the acronym TSO and the phrase "reasonable explanation" in the same sentence including a directly referencing connection caused my brain to shut down for a moment. :p

haha :D

I've seen the screening clerks try and wave the magic strip over drinks at various airport mostly starting in January. While they have not selected me, I think I would just ignore them. Where's the threat, especially if the beverage I purchased was made air side? :rolleyes:

That comment was more of a discussion on the infamous etiquette shown in this forum than on a moderator activity.

I think RSS knows what I meant.

Cheers,
OPos.

If you see a post that violates the TOS, use the RPB button. @:-)

You'll have to forgive me, but when the subject of a government actor feeling up an 87-year-old grandmother or looking at nude scans of a 5-year-old boy in the name of "security," etiquette is probably not on my front burner.

Now that is a real challenge.

Thanks for your helps! :)

After having had problems @ 2 different airports in the past week, including MCO, involving either no-show screeners resulting in a check-point not opening on time & the other the always fun 'why should I have to change my gloves' debate, I've stopped wasting my time w/the 'Talk to TSA' nonesense & am going straight to the airport management. In both cases I've received responses back in 24 hrs, the first resulted in multiple responses from the airport & then an additional direct response from the 'Regional TSA Quality Manager'. Don't know if anything concrete will come of either, but at least I know the local TSA managers are having to answer to someone, albeit the airport, on my behalf. This is more than ever happens w/the Talk to TSA nonesense which seems to be nothing more than an electronic circular filing cabinet...

Folks, Lets moderations is doing their jobs and you don't have need to asks DL moderators to moved the thread.

came across as an attack on people's opinions just because they seem a little harsh or you dont agree with them. i'll stand by my post. people are ignorant if they think the tsa serves any useful purpose. cheers...

OK, so if this happens during my next airport visit, does anyone know if you can opt out?

Seriously, can you just say, "I opt out" and ask them to go bother someone else?

Would that end in a body cavity search or LEO invervention?

Oh. I'm terribly sorry.

It was meant to come across as an attack on people who think that anyone who disagrees with them is ignorant, ill-informed, or un-American just because they hold a different opinion.

My bad. I'll make the target of my rant more clear next time.

Thanks!
OPos.