TSA employs a robust security system involving multiple layers of security, both seen and unseen, to protect the traveling public, including a well-trained frontline workforce
"Well trained" in the same sense that the guy making your burger at McDonalds is "well trained". And let's face it, most of these TSA goons probably would be working at Mickey D's if it weren't for the TSA. Not exactly America's best and brightest, that lot. What I can't see is why anybody is even surprised when this stuff happens.
I walked into an airport a year or so ago, headed to Chicago and halfway through the security line realized that I still had my folding knife clipped to my belt. I wasn't going to go all the way back to the car to stow it by that point, so I just jammed it in my bag and figured I'd take my chances. My bag went through the scanner without a peep and I carried the knife on the plane with me.
To their credit, the TSA crew in Chicago found it when I went through security on my way back. But the thing is, I wasn't really trying to conceal it. I just jammed it in randomly, making no special effort to obscure or hide it or anything. I really expect if I'd carefully wedged it in between my Nook and a USB harddrive or something, it would never have been found.
"Well trained" in the same sense that the guy making your burger at McDonalds is "well trained". And let's face it, most of these TSA goons probably would be working at Mickey D's if it weren't for the TSA. Not exactly America's best and brightest, that lot. What I can't see is why anybody is even surprised when this stuff happens.
I walked into an airport a year or so ago, headed to Chicago and halfway through the security line realized that I still had my folding knife clipped to my belt. I wasn't going to go all the way back to the car to stow it by that point, so I just jammed it in my bag and figured I'd take my chances. My bag went through the scanner without a peep and I carried the knife on the plane with me.
To their credit, the TSA crew in Chicago found it when I went through security on my way back. But the thing is, I wasn't really trying to conceal it. I just jammed it in randomly, making no special effort to obscure or hide it or anything. I really expect if I'd carefully wedged it in between my Nook and a USB harddrive or something, it would never have been found.