"Am I under arrest and what is the charge? If not, please excuse me."

He can detain me and he can ask me why. I'll be happy to explain to him. As I said, I cooperate fully with law enforcement. He can not, however, arrest me because there is no law that permits TSOs to stop me.

I say STOP...... Hammer Time... errrr... Hammer zeit!
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C'mon folks-dontcha know that "Code Bravo" is the TSA's game of freeze tag? ;)

Perhaps the correct response to "Bravo" is a loud "Sierra"... :p

I think it should be "Sierra, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot"... :cool:

Or, "Sierra Tango Foxtrot Union!"

I like it...even though the folks in the bar at BWI are now looking at me funny for the laugh that generated...

Uniform, actually.

Ah, go Sierra Tango Foxtrot Uniform! ;)

I just chalked it up to someone mixing the APCO and International Phonetic Alphabets.

I thought we didn't want to talk about TSO uniforms ... :D

Is yelling "Bravo" at the airport the opposite of yelling "Fire" at the theatre? Can you get in trouble for yelling "Bravo" while at the airport? What about if you yell "Bravo Clear"?

Which is what they are.

interesting, as the public figures out what "bravo" means, and you don't know if they are "testing" or "for real" when they yell it, it could certainly set off mass panic at the check point...

Since the meanings of the terms are probably SSI, that would be like making it illegal to say the secret word in a theater, while making it illegal to tell anyone what that word. Welcome to Pee-wee's Playhouse.

Next time I'm at a checkpoint I'll applaud the TSA employees for their fine acting in the security theater with a rousing "Bravo!". :D

This will be fun! After I clear, I turn back to the screening area and hold up both hands and yell "Code Bravo." I wonder how many of them will freeze? :p

Maybe this is the new definitely of Code Bravo... Photoshop is your friend ;)

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Is it just me, or...

"Code Bravo" = Pee Wee Herman's 'Secret Word'?

CODE BRAVO! AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!! *DING DING DING DING*

You know, I had never though about it, but this really is like Pee-wee's Playhouse....

Super-double-top-secret code words
Special colored uniforms
Grown men fondling little boys
Who knows what they do with themselves in the nudie monitor room (ala pee-wee's trips to the theatre)
etc. etc. etc.

It's just a horrible TV show...

From a ways back...

Me, too, and it's part of why I have issues with the TSA, even without the NoS nonsense.

How in hell am I supposed to remember all the minutia they want me to remember? I have to disassemble all my toiletries and repackage some of them, but not others, a certain way before the flight; there are some things I have to take out according to specific procedures or not take out according to specific procedures; there are some things I'm not allowed to bring at all, but others (that appear far more dangerous) which are just fine; there are some things I can wear and some I can't....and these rules and regs not only change frequently but they're not consistent across checkpoints.

I run the risk of getting arrested if I don't do all this correctly, and at the minimum I'll get barked at by some fool who got his job off the back of a pizza box.

Great.

So lets do this, with a fun smile and a twinkle in our eye:

After finishing screening, after putting our shoes back on a verifying that all our valuables are still where they were before we last really looked at them, just before we turn to go to Starbucks, we turn with a slight twist and to screening crew give them a friendly, albeit deceptively snarky, "Code Bravo, blue crew" and a wave, as we hopefully disappear into the terminal.

It would mark us to each other, it would mystify the other PAX leading to questions we could answer, and they would have to quietly take the ridicule they so richly deserve after they can do very little more about it.

This really can be fun..... (My wife really does not like my devious side.:p)

You, sir, are nasty. I wish to subscribe to this newsletter. :D

Where ever this is, the TSA at this airport have way too much time on their hands if they are numbering (and presumably inventorying) plastic bins.

Really? That's the kind of thing that tends to walk away quite often.

How does putting numbers on the side keep them from walking away?

Who and how often are inventories conducted?

The numbering thing is quite common, and it's getting done in places it was not before. I assume it's to track stuff on camera as it goes through, so they can see for example bin C22 to see who loaded it, who put it on the belt, etc. It would not be all that hard for somebody to plan to sneak something through, let bin C22 go through, and fiddle around with jacket belt and shoes until the bin cleared, then go through inspection, or leave if they discovered a killer snow globe in it.

It would also help in thefts to see the same person put something in the bin and took it out, say $100 bills from tourists going home.