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Me too if I'm wearing a jacket. White but fat, all in the tummy. Obviously the Aussies find it too confrontational to ask me to open the jacket so they can chec
by Sir_Substance 8y ago
Me too if I'm wearing a jacket. White but fat, all in the tummy. Obviously the Aussies find it too confrontational to ask me to open the jacket so they can check it's stomach and not explosives, so the "random" check it is.
There's also a great article out there somewhere (7+ years old, around the time they started the xray backscatter scanners) about an actor who changed her behavior as she went through lots of TSA checkpoints, and eventually concluded that the TSA random checkers were mostly picking people who looked like they wouldn't make a fuss.
Whatever you're getting from the airport, it's certainly not security.
- chiph 8y ago> eventually concluded that the TSA random checkers were mostly picking people who looked like they wouldn't make a fuss. This is my theory as well. Their job KPIs probably have something like "patted down x people per shift", so they pick people that will cause the least trouble for them.