I once went through and my bag flagged up. I had a battery bank I’d forgotten about in a side pocket i didnt use. Must have flagged up as a big block.
The security guy went off when I couldn’t immediately find it “WHAT DO YOU HAVE IN THE BAG? SHOW ME WHAT IT IS?” Right screaming.
Then went and (after I explained where the hidden pock was) found it and said “oh it’s just a battery charger I forgot I had in here.” It was like a flip switched and he was just cheery “oh ok. Move on”.
I got in a line at MCO where the baggage scanner operator had obviously gotten in trouble for missing something because the idiot was flagging literally every bag that went through the scanner with more than a laptop in it.
Woman in front of me had 10 vacuum packed packages of coffee beans. Smurfs sniffed each and every one of them separately with the chemical sampler. I had gotten flagged for "something sharp" and it took the smurf doing bag checks ten minutes to be convinced that there was no knife hidden between the layers of the backpack's pockets. Guy behind me had a similar scan and had his entire bag of carefully packed clothes unpacked and then stuffed back in haphazardly so that it'd all wrinkle. Jerks are out of control.
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u/Narradisall 29d ago edited 29d ago
Airport security in the US can be intense.
I once went through and my bag flagged up. I had a battery bank I’d forgotten about in a side pocket i didnt use. Must have flagged up as a big block.
The security guy went off when I couldn’t immediately find it “WHAT DO YOU HAVE IN THE BAG? SHOW ME WHAT IT IS?” Right screaming.
Then went and (after I explained where the hidden pock was) found it and said “oh it’s just a battery charger I forgot I had in here.” It was like a flip switched and he was just cheery “oh ok. Move on”.
Weirdest thing ever.