What's the 'S' stand for? Stupid!
Airline security puts an S on your boarding pass to indicate to TSA at the gate that you have been randomly selected for extra searching. I was told this by a TSA agent at RDU airport. Sure enough, I got the pat down. Third time in my life, so I guess I'm extra random.
Anyway, the reason this is STUPID: why would a terrorist proceed to the gate for this extra search if he/she was in fact hiding a weapon? Wouldn't they just see that S on their boarding pass, and say 'Oh well not today - damn you random search!', and just go home?
Also, I have inadvertantly taken a box cutter in my carry on - I was shocked when I found it in my computer bag at the job in Detroit because it had made it through security. I forgot to take it out before I left, and security missed it too.
I guess with thousands of people an hour going through, they don't catch everything.
Kenny
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My friend got a job at airport security last summer, in Charlottetown. They have quite a few symbols they tag on passengers, but I can't remember half of them. Anyway, if they don't trust you, they can tag you, or really anything they want. They have a huge amount of discretion and it doesn't take much to get searched. Even a facial expression could do it.
I can rationalize it though; wouldn't you rather get searched once in a while, than have your plane flown into a building? Yeah yeah, not every plane gets flown into buildings.
Hey, but two did a few years ago.
Three planes counting the pentagon.
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