What is your personal opt-out policy?
Feb 6, 2012, 12:04 am
#46
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Feb 6, 2012, 2:27 am
#47
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MMW with ATR (if and when it comes to Australia with a no-opt-out policy) I will probably have to live with. Backscatter, NEVER.
Feb 6, 2012, 2:35 am
#48
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SDOO, then opt out. My SDOO policy extends to a complete refusal to fly out of any airport which has a no-opt out policy. That means LHR and MAN will never collect a penny of airport taxes out of me again, until such day as they stop this nonsense.
Feb 6, 2012, 2:47 am
#49
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Don't forget LGW, which has MMW (old-school, complete with guy in booth) and no opt-out if selected.
Feb 6, 2012, 6:20 pm
#50
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I'm going to develop a policy tomorrow. Thankfully, there's never been any machine other than a WTMD open for any of my flights so far. Tomorrow, I'm wearing skinny jeans in hope that I don't get an extra pat-down if I manage to continue the WTMD streak.
Feb 7, 2012, 9:58 am
#51
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my policy
My personal opt out policy is every single time period! I make sure that I get to the airport early enough just in case I have any issues with the blue shirts that I will still make my flight.
Feb 11, 2012, 5:59 pm
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I've been forced through a MMW twice recently. Once in Moscow, once coming out of Gaza at Erez. No opt out at either place. Opted out of MMW once, at BWI.
Feb 11, 2012, 7:45 pm
#56
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I'm physically unable to assume the position for the NoS, so I always get the grope when TSA tells me to. Every single time I fly because my physical limitation is never going to go away.
I can walk through the WTMD, but it seems to always be closed when I fly.
Feb 11, 2012, 7:46 pm
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No problem with the WTMD, but the chips never seem to fall that way when I'm at the checkpoint.
Feb 12, 2012, 2:56 am
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Feb 12, 2012, 2:36 pm
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I always opt out. I have never been through either a backscatter or MMW machine. I have never been asked why. I suppose my answer would be "Because I don't want to."
My only exception is if I happen to be traveling (as Wollstonecraft-spouse sometimes does) to an oppressive and/or undemocratic country. Apparently, the US has been happy to hand these things out to such places, so if the alternative is going to a dark hole of a jail, I plan to submit to the scan. It has not yet come up.
My only exception is if I happen to be traveling (as Wollstonecraft-spouse sometimes does) to an oppressive and/or undemocratic country. Apparently, the US has been happy to hand these things out to such places, so if the alternative is going to a dark hole of a jail, I plan to submit to the scan. It has not yet come up.