Comment by trenchpilgrim
2 days ago
Also depends on the person. I am brown, have a long beard, and wear a head cover. Almost every time I fly in the US I get a pat down, my bag manually searched, or a canine sniff. I budget extra time for it.
2 days ago
Also depends on the person. I am brown, have a long beard, and wear a head cover. Almost every time I fly in the US I get a pat down, my bag manually searched, or a canine sniff. I budget extra time for it.
Oh yes, of course you should be harassed at the airport every time because of that one terrorism twenty five years ago.
We also spent 20+ years in various "Middle Eastern" countries, so that hasn't gone away for a lot of people that were around for 9/11. :-/
Hey, it’s actually because of that extra scrutiny that it hasn’t happened again, right? /s (double /s i am being totally sarcastic here)
They're not the only one, we're all harassed at the airport every time. Going through the clownshow of TSA (which STILL fails the vast majority of its audits) wasn't the last of it, now they're doing facial scanning at the gate.
Glad you can brush off the death of 3000 innocent people so easily
Oh sorry, I didn't realize that another 25 years of patdowns will bring them back.
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Ugh, I hate that for you.
Are you Sikh, by chance? If so, what do you do with that little knife you carry when you fly? I’ve never thought about that when I had the opportunity to actually find out.
The knife is called a Kirpan, official TSA policy is there is no policy, it’s at the groper’s, pardon, screening officer’s discretion. https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/whatcanibring/...
That doesn’t sound like a roll of the dice or anything.
I’d wondered how that was handled, as a religious object. It’s obviously more important to the holder than my pocketknife is to me, and I have zero concern about a Sikh person carrying one anywhere. They’re not going to bust that out. And yet, it is a knife.
Probably the closest I’ve been that that was flying home from our wedding with the cake knife in my carryon. The TSA agent’s eyes widened when I hold him the shadow on the X-ray was a cake knife, but then I took it out and showed him how it was a ceremonial thing and wouldn’t break skin. Then the agent laughed and sent us along our way. A Kirpan isn’t so delicate, though.
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