knotyeagle

There is a TSA screener at Fort Lauderdale (FLL) Terminal 1 who thinks he can. He'll also ask why you are going to Tulsa, where you live, and are you going to Tulsa for business or pleasure. Next time they ask you those questions ask them where they live before you answer.

bocastephen

Why show them a passport? It's just giving them ammunition to frustrate you. Show them a DL or some other plain ID card - where you're going, been, doing, seeing, etc. is none of their business.

bocastephen

Is it the older short, balding fat guy who is often standing in front of the screening area glaring at people?

Next time...just say 'none of your business' and be done with it...if they escalate, call the GSC for your airline.

Global_Hi_Flyer

Because at BWI, I had a TSA ID checker look at the address, ask me about the neighborhood I live in ('Oh, is that a great zip code to live in, are you in xxx neighborhood), wasn't I glad to be going home, etc, etc. I glared at that person and said "my ID is valid, and the name matches the boarding pass, now please let me go".

And there are some situations where they want to write down info from your ID - the less info they have to write down, the better. And your passport doesn't contain home address info.

Mikey likes it

Try making it less easy for them to do so. Paper clip or better yet staple the passport pages to the cover opposite the one with the photo. Then they'll have to remove the paper clips / staples making it all the more obvious that they're nosing into your business. Then you call the supe and ask if they're allowed to do that.

gobluetwo

if this list exists in the name of security, shouldn't they, like, not tape it to their stands for all the world to see? geez...

Anyone up for trying to put together the full list? from this thread so far:

1 Egypt
2 Yemen
3 Iran
4 Iraq
5 Turkey
6 North Korea
7 India (?)
8 Afghanistan
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Mikey likes it

The Principality of Sealand

jonesing

Well they both have "e"s and only 3 vowels in the names...clearly some kind threat!

("and sometimes 'y'")

jonesing

Would that also include government agency IDs that don't bear expiry dates? Many agency employees and/or contractors here have been hassled because our govvie-issued ID lacks an expiration date like milk.

mkt

Bart, my Puerto Rican voter registration card has my name and photograph, and is a digital card akin to most US drivers licenses.

It has no expiration date.

Would you allow me to board a plane with it?

Please respond with a yes or no

MikeMpls

We were delayed several minutes in MDW because a TSA ID checker who appeared not to have too many bulbs burning couldn't figure out what to do with a woman's passport. He was looking through it apparently trying to understand some of the stamps, ID checker next to him couldn't answer his questions, he finally hauled the woman off to a 3rd person and after wasting further time she was allowed through.

I couldn't quite hear the conversation or read the nationality on the passport, slight purplish color, woman appear perhaps mideastern, fairly light complexion.

Mission creep is hard at work.

p1cunnin

I'm one for four in having TSA flip through my passport. I use my passport because it is easier for me to use than getting out my DL and explaining that the renewal sticker is valid ("This is expired." "No, look at the sticker." "That's not real." SIGH Funny, I can rent cars with the DL without question.)

I was going to jump up and down when the TSA ID checker flipped through my passport (I have erased my penciled in home address since that happened). Next time I demand the supervisor.

Wonder if the next step for TSA is to hold up your DL and look for staple holes (an old LEO technique to get a sense of many tickets the person has had -- the staples mean that the DL was surrendered as bond on a traffic ticket and stapled to the ticket for the court) and then ask you how many times you've been arrested.

railroadtycoon

I've never seen a North Korean passport, but I assume a north korean passport probably wouldn't say North Korea on it, it would be something like Democratic People's Republic of Korea Passport. Like how South Korea's passport says Republic of Korea Passport on it. TSA checker probably wouldn't even know the difference. Even if they did, It goes back to ID checks don't mean squat for security.

mgilmer

Probably could not read.

essxjay

Yes, 18 of the 19 had DLs, according to the 9/11 Commission report.

Here are some of the known IDs held by the hijackers:

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