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agree with at1. sounds like they are looking for something. let them do their job.
You all buy right into the police state and let this happen...let the record state.
They are probably looking for something specific, as this is not the standard.
1. Wtf is this a police state??
2. They are only (visually) scanning carryons, not rollers. This is utterly senseless and absurd, right???
Instead of being all pissy about it, you should be wondering why. You are about to be thousands of feet off the ground for 3 hours with a couple of hundred people you know nothing about. But hey what could possibly happen?
It could have been a last minute tip to law enforcement regarding a threat. The scenario you described is not typical. Someone in the airport may have seen something and made a report. Better a minor inconvenience than a disaster.
Unless you are carrying sex toys , you don't need to be embarrassed:)
A2 -- if they were really looking for something, they shouldn't have let 200 of us board with our rollers unchecked. And all of us had been through airport security already -- They should've shut the whole airport down and rechecked everyone if they thought security was breached.
So: This is the kind of thing that sounds good on paper, but is absurd when you really think about it, just doesn't make any sense. Likely a bunch of people who have to "do something" to stay on shift. And we all go along with it like sheep.
I'm all for real, actual security. I'm not for absurdist police state theater security.
AA 11:59 pm flight? If so, glad I was remote this week or I would've been on that flight and super grumpy (irrationally, safety / security first) about the delay.
I vote that they're looking for drugs. Still, just personal item vs carry on doesn't make sense