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What do you show the TSA agent with your boarding pass?

• patcheudor 11y ago
  Nothing. I walk up, identify myself, explain I've misplaced my wallet and have no ID, credit-cards, etc. They then call for an enhanced screening and a nice TSA agent walks with me through the line to place my stuff on the conveyer. We then go past the scanner and I get a pat down and rubbed with their little white paper which goes into a device to sniff for explosives. Sometimes I'm asked questions about my travel, SSN, that sort of thing. Honestly, I've never had a problem. EDIT: Oh, I never have checked bags. I think that helps make it smoother.
  • buu700 11y ago
    +1. I once lost my ID and showed up at the airport with a photocopy of my passport; they just asked for whatever else I had on hand (credit card, company badge) and patted me down.
  • droithomme 11y ago
    "explain I've misplaced my wallet" So you commit perjury, correct?
    • ryanlol 11y ago
      That is not perjury.
    • patcheudor 11y ago
      Nope. If you don't have your wallet, you don't have your wallet. Further, you only commit perjury (in the US) if you are under oath. Also, no law has been broken which is being investigated. Not having ID is not a crime. Being vague about why you don't have ID is not a crime.
      • PhantomGremlin 11y ago
        you only commit perjury (in the US) if you are under oath Quite true. But did you know it is a felony to make false statements? Martha Stewart probably didn't know that before, but she does now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_false_statements https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_false_statements
        • patcheudor 11y ago
          in the commission of a crime or to mislead the investigation of a crime.
    • DanBC 11y ago
      s/he's not under oath when s/he says it, so it's not perjury. Lying to a federal official is some other criminal offence and is a pretty bad idea.
      • patcheudor 11y ago
        Not a lawyer, but I believe lying to a federal official is only a criminal offense when it is done to cover up a crime. I still don't advise lying to a TSA agent and would suggest that anyone traveling without an ID actually be traveling without an ID. Obviously there are some risks of delay in doing this so I'm sure it's something which will never be common.
        • DanBC 11y ago
          As I understand it the law makes it a crime to utter any false statement to a federal agent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_false_statements https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_false_statements
          • limeyx 11y ago
            So if I said "The sky is not blue and the sun is not yellow" they could arrest me for something ?
        • dogma1138 11y ago
          Is a TSA employee actually a federal officer?
          • simoncion 11y ago
            The security screeners are not officers. Abso-fucking-lutely not. Their powers of detention and search are strictly limited to only those actions required to ensure the safety of aircraft from the things that would be loaded onto said aircraft. [0] If a TSA agent needs to do anything beyond their remit, they must get a law enforcement officer to do it. [0] The TSA's kangaroo court has been gradually expanding what the TSA feels it is legally permitted to do as time goes on, but -happily- Federal judges have started to take a really dim view on the TSA's (incredibly long-standing) procedural end run around judicial review.