>"I just want to know what the TSA supervisor expected would happen if he DID choose to go back to customs. Then what? Where does he go? He has no ticket, no bo

>"I just want to know what the TSA supervisor expected would happen if he DID choose to go back to customs. Then what? Where does he go? He has no ticket, no boarding pass. He can't get on a plane. I don't see how refusing could possible end any other way than for him to walk out of there." The assumption is almost certainly that the passenger either eventually caves due to boredom, hunger, thirst, or need to go to the bathroom. I assume they're figuring the passenger will have to cave before they will - I mean, unless he stays there until he somehow passes out from thirst and is removed, unconscious, by an ambulance days later, he's going to have to cave eventually.