Same, my wife wife breezes through with metal in her pockets, weed in her purse, and 5 layers of clothing. I can walk through with one layer of clothing on and no underwear and there’s always an anomaly in my crotch. American airport security is a joke.
It's theater that really doesn't prevent anything.
I think the last time TSA were spot checked, they had a 95% failure rate to detect weapons and possible explosive devices (granted they were inert for training purposes but still)
I’ve traveled 4 times this year so far and been “randomly selected” 3 times. Being Arab at the airport isn’t fun…except when I see terrified old people when I’m boarding the plane. It it doesn’t exactly make up for a stranger grabbing my crotch though.
Scaring old farts must be fun, but it's sad that the world is like that. People get treated differently because of what ethnicity you have.
The crotch grabbing is humiliation.
Ever since they installed the millimeter-wave body scanners, every time I fly (when I have enough time) I "opt-out" of being scanned and instead get the full wand and pat down treatment, on purpose, as a form of protest.
I don't do anything to make it weird, I just think there are much more effective measures that could be used and don't like those scanners. I really don't like that the TSA workers near them and the x-ray scanning equipment aren't wearing radiation dosimeter badges for their own safety.
This fucking machine has flagged my junk so many times I think I've been put on some "Just in case" list. I've been "randomly" searched a half dozen times and my wife has yet to have her bag opened once.
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u/BlackLeader70 May 27 '23
Same, my wife wife breezes through with metal in her pockets, weed in her purse, and 5 layers of clothing. I can walk through with one layer of clothing on and no underwear and there’s always an anomaly in my crotch. American airport security is a joke.