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Originally Posted by swag
(Post 10539663)
Why do you folks fly with loose change? I can't remember the last time I got to security with coins in my pocket. Besides the security hassle, it's extra weight.
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Originally Posted by mjcewl1284
(Post 10539011)
... stuffing my backpack full of pocket change, wallet, ipod, belt, blueberry etc. before being examined and walking through the metal detector.
<snipped> I don't give TSA any unneeded crap. I pull out my notebook. I take off my shoes. I take off my baseball cap. Goes into the tray like everything. I'd like to think I'm very cooperative, all except being patted down or felt up by anybody else. Am I out of line for complaining about this? I too take the contents of my pockets - change, keys, cell phone, etc. and dump it all into my carry-on before I reach the check-point. I always have, I always will. Only thing in my pocket is then my wallet and passport by the time I approach the TDC. When I get to the checkpoint this allows me to remove my laptop, play shoe carnival (if in the US), remove my kip-qwart and to get through without having to mess around with anything else like spare change or keys. |
Originally Posted by mjcewl1284
(Post 10539011)
... stuffing my backpack full of pocket change, wallet, ipod, belt, blueberry etc. before being examined and walking through the metal detector.
This is a habit I have done since I have been travelling. I have always emptied my pockets, belt and such before going through the metal detector well before 9/11, even before TSA ruled our airports. I'll admit it, I don't like being examined by people or being patted down. I don't have anything to hide. I just feel like nobody should be feeling me up or touching me (wife excluded). So I do whatever is neccesary in order to avoid that. To my surprise when I repeated this such exercise after clearing DTW transfers and somebody "caught" me in the act. He goes, "Sir, you're not allowed to do that." I asked him not allowed to do what. He says, "Well you just can't put everything in your bag like that." I said, "Okay, I'll keep that in mind next time." I mean 7 years through (and many years before that) and this was the first instance I'm NOT ALLOWED to do that? Come on. I don't give TSA any unneeded crap. I pull out my notebook. I take off my shoes. I take off my baseball cap. Goes into the tray like everything. I'd like to think I'm very cooperative, all except being patted down or felt up by anybody else. Am I out of line for complaining about this? this putz should be in charge the tsa so we could have as much fun with him as we do with kippie |
The irony of all of that is the IN-OUT-OFF guidelines.
Out refers to laptops and other large electronic items coming out of their cases. Off refers to jackets and such coming off and going through the x-ray. However... In refers, specifically, to placing "all metal items inside your carry-on baggage." We totally have signs that say that very thing. |
Originally Posted by HSVTSO Dean
(Post 10540691)
The irony of all of that is the IN-OUT-OFF guidelines.
Out refers to laptops and other large electronic items coming out of their cases. Off refers to jackets and such coming off and going through the x-ray. However... In refers, specifically, to placing "all metal items inside your carry-on baggage." We totally have signs that say that very thing. |
Originally Posted by goalie
(Post 10540101)
this putz should be in charge the tsa so we could have as much fun with him as we do with kippie
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Once I stopped putting my coins in my back pack, screening went a lot faster. I'm curious what the folks running the X-rays think the coins are.
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They can tell me what to do with my stuff when they're willing to guarantee every item I own and will agree in writing to pay me $5,000 per item lost/stolen/disappeared. :rolleyes:
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Originally Posted by mre5765
(Post 10540747)
Once I stopped putting my coins in my back pack, screening went a lot faster. I'm curious what the folks running the X-rays think the coins are.
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Once I stopped putting my coins in my back pack, screening went a lot faster. I'm curious what the folks running the X-rays think the coins are. |
Originally Posted by HSVTSO Dean
(Post 10540691)
The irony of all of that is the IN-OUT-OFF guidelines.
Out refers to laptops and other large electronic items coming out of their cases. Off refers to jackets and such coming off and going through the x-ray. However... In refers, specifically, to placing "all metal items inside your carry-on baggage." We totally have signs that say that very thing. i take everything out of my pockets, off my belt* and my wrist before going thru the wtmd and it all either all goes in the snap pocket of my leather jacket (with the jacket neatly folded so that the pocket is on "the inside of the fold") or in an outer zippered compartment of my briefcase or wheels as common sense tells me not to place my cell phone, change and watch in the bin where they are out in the open. but then again, as my signature says...... *my belt never comes off as even with the buckle as big as it is, it, to the amazement of the wtmd gatekeeper, never alarms |
The TSO's complaint is bizarre. I have to think it's just a way to go on a power trip. If all those items can legally go through in luggage, who cares when they go in or come out?
All my pocket stuff goes in a Ziploc bag and in my briefcase just before security and comes out again just after it or just after boarding, depending on how hurried I am. It never even occurred to me that someone would object. Of course, I step out of the flow of foot traffic and do this before even joining the security queue so as not to hold up the queue. |
Originally Posted by EOS
(Post 10539059)
Self-protection. There is no logic in this situation. You are an innocent person...treated as if you were a potential plane bomber and baby killer.
Your lipstick is viewed as a deadly weapon. Your shoes could hide bombs. Your scarf could be hiding something (why else be asked to remove it). Your bag could have a bomb in it. So they yell at you, 'move on', 'remove your shoes', and 'put your bags in the bin', 'step back' or 'step forward'. Your jewelry could be a bomb so they paw through your personal belongings, bare hands, through your toiletries and toothbrush. Everyone deals with this in their own way. One friend 'goes catatonic' until through 'security'. Another well-traveled friend says she 'goes on auto pilot' and another, who travels often, wears ear-plugs and goes through the motion, like a robot, she says. 'You can't be thinking about it'...said another chum. Travel...is still worth it. Security is grubby. The destination is the thing. I love to fly. Even so... I've got to say, I do as the OP: my rollaboard (Samsonite) has an outside top-zipper-pocket into which I empty my pockets prior to check-in, and never had any issues. Maybe it's only dangerous if a TSA customer service person observes it? |
Originally Posted by goalie
i take everything out of my pockets, off my belt* and my wrist before going thru the wtmd and it all either all goes in the snap pocket of my leather jacket (with the jacket neatly folded so that the pocket is on "the inside of the fold")
Originally Posted by SJC1K
All my pocket stuff goes in a Ziploc bag and in my briefcase just before security and comes out again just after it or just after boarding, depending on how hurried I am.
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Originally Posted by mjcewl1284
(Post 10539011)
... stuffing my backpack full of pocket change, wallet, ipod, belt, blueberry etc. before being examined and walking through the metal detector.
This is a habit I have done since I have been travelling. I have always emptied my pockets, belt and such before going through the metal detector well before 9/11, even before TSA ruled our airports. I'll admit it, I don't like being examined by people or being patted down. I don't have anything to hide. I just feel like nobody should be feeling me up or touching me (wife excluded). So I do whatever is neccesary in order to avoid that. To my surprise when I repeated this such exercise after clearing DTW transfers and somebody "caught" me in the act. He goes, "Sir, you're not allowed to do that." I asked him not allowed to do what. He says, "Well you just can't put everything in your bag like that." I said, "Okay, I'll keep that in mind next time." I mean 7 years through (and many years before that) and this was the first instance I'm NOT ALLOWED to do that? Come on. I don't give TSA any unneeded crap. I pull out my notebook. I take off my shoes. I take off my baseball cap. Goes into the tray like everything. I'd like to think I'm very cooperative, all except being patted down or felt up by anybody else. Am I out of line for complaining about this? |
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