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I flew from JFK to LAX to DEN with eight 9mm, hollow point rounds in my carry on bag. Denver TSA finally caught it and was very, very nice about it all (being w
by pyvpx 11y ago
I flew from JFK to LAX to DEN with eight 9mm, hollow point rounds in my carry on bag. Denver TSA finally caught it and was very, very nice about it all (being white, having recently trimmed my beard, and having a non-foreign name definitely helped in that regard)
TSA at major airports is security theatre, plain and simple.
- savrajsingh 11y agoThanks for acknowledging that being white inevitably changed the outcome ;)
- HeyLaughingBoy 11y agoOTOH, on a trip to Alaska with multiple connections, my white, Irish-Norwegian descent wife was searched every time she went through security while I, her black husband, looked on with veiled amusement. YMMV.
- luxpir 11y agoNot to deny the fact that profiling happens, but it occurred to me that the assumption your wife was carrying something for you might have also been at play. White women carrying narcotics is not an unheard of phenomenon. Sorry if that de-funs the situation!