Yeah they told me to leave my belt on before going through the metal detector at OAK a few years ago. That worked out about as well as expected. More recently

Yeah they told me to leave my belt on before going through the metal detector at OAK a few years ago. That worked out about as well as expected. More recently I flew out of JFK T4 a couple times (protip: don't) and on one of these trips all hell broke loose when someone's pet cat escaped. Security theater indeed.