Originally Posted by Nodric (Post 19354347)

which also suggests we should carry papers in hand luggage as it avoids these searches

Originally Posted by Nodric (Post 19353902)

Hmmm, strage as we are white, English, and were flying BA, so not wearing any form of national clothing, or face covering garb. Maybe my 19 year old Caucasian blond haired student daughter appeared to be a terror wrist (don't want my posts being flagged by DHS do we) :D

Maybe the paperwork appeared on xray to be a box of korans...

Originally Posted by TSORon (Post 19353953)

Fact is that paper presents as an organic on our x-ray systems. Not usually a problem. Large stacks of paper present as dense organics, and several types of explosives do as well. Hence the reason for a more extensive look at your daughters bag.

Kiddie porn is rare, most folks flying and who enjoy that form of entertainment (disturbing as it may be, there are those out there that see it as such) know that it will cause no end of problems for them if discovered by the TSA. Regular porn is as common as grass, we see it all the time.

Originally Posted by TSORon (Post 19353953)

Fact is that paper presents as an organic on our x-ray systems. Not usually a problem. Large stacks of paper present as dense organics, and several types of explosives do as well. Hence the reason for a more extensive look at your daughters bag.

Originally Posted by N965VJ (Post 19359985)

Except when TSA employees fancy themselves being a police detective, and start reading the documents they are looking at.

Or was this passenger carrying a really, really thick checkbook? :rolleyes:

Originally Posted by Loren Pechtel (Post 19355117)

TSA procedures seem more and more aimed at drugs rather than security.

Originally Posted by TSORon (Post 19353953)

Fact is that paper presents as an organic on our x-ray systems. Not usually a problem.

Originally Posted by lovely15 (Post 19360084)

From the article:
"The new TSA directive reads: "Screening may not be conducted to detect evidence of crimes unrelated to transportation security.""

:rolleyes: Right......

Originally Posted by ryandelmundo (Post 19398497)

Books are made of paper. Pretty soon we won't be allowed to carry books anymore.

Thanks to Ron for explaining the basis.

I guess I'd like to see everything defined in terms of security. Then it could be reviewed. The problem seems to be anyone can make up any reason for security. "Oh your credit cards are made of plastic, and so are explosives."

Unreasonable searches. This was the basis of the Second Amendment. Hopefully one of these days the Second Amendment catches up, but ten years on from 9/11 we aren't there yet.

Originally Posted by TSORon (Post 19404187)

You would actually have to be trained on our systems to understand the issues involved in identifying the different things a passenger may have in their bags. Books don't look like books on our x-ray systems, and a hair dryer... you just don't want to know, believe me.

Originally Posted by TSORon (Post 19404187)

You would actually have to be trained on our systems to understand the issues involved in identifying the different things a passenger may have in their bags.

Originally Posted by TSORon (Post 19404176)

Care to provide a link to this "directive"?

Originally Posted by N965VJ (Post 19405094)

Originally Posted by Pesky Monkey (Post 19404532)

Translation: our expensive machines are useless.