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Does anyone else regularly experience a form of compliance test as far as the shoes on-off or the laptop in or out of the bag? I fly way more than I would like,
by sidewndr46 4y ago
Does anyone else regularly experience a form of compliance test as far as the shoes on-off or the laptop in or out of the bag? I fly way more than I would like, so I figure I can memorize the procedure by just reading the TSA website or something.
The interesting thing is, they almost always subtly modify the procedure in some way. Sometimes I can keep my shoes on. Sometimes the laptop can stay in the bag. In some cases, two agents in the same exact line give contradictory instructions.
- bogomipz 4y agoI do think it's more of power trip than anything else. The TSA overwhelmingly seem to want to browbeat the very people they are supposed to be serving. Indeed the rules seem to vary arbitrarily by time of day, by airport, by passenger volume. It just proves that most of what the TSA does in airports is is really just security theater.
- sidewndr46 4y agoHad to fly again last week for work: I kindly ask the TSA employee if laptops need to be in or out of the bag I carry as I pas through the checkpoint. He says "yes", so I proceed to remove my laptop. As I'm pulling it out, the exact same employee yells at me "NO, laptops stay in the bag".
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