A few years ago my wife was recovering from brain surgery and had just got out of the ReHab hospital and it was still hard for her to walk, we was flying home for Christmas and she needed a wheel chair to make it through the airport. What the TSA put her through was outrageous and it was all I could do to keep my mouth shut so we could go and see the Grandkids. That was six years ago and we haven’t set foot on a plane since, nor will I until the useless gang of thugs call the TSA is disbanded,
I said it before and I say it again. If the flying public was to band together and do just a two week boycott of flying the airlines would be brought to their knees and the Feds would have no choice, but at least clean up the TSA and put a much needs leash on what is clearly and out of control agency.
I know it won’t happen as there isn’t enough back bone collectively among the flying to stiffen and earthworm.
So keep flying, but stop your bitching and lay back and enjoy the molestation.
On a couple of other recent occasions I was stopped when I set off their alarms and I was treated in a polite and reasonable way. In both cases it was something that they should have checked out and they did only what was necessary.
Had a worn out, crumpled 1/4 tube of toothpaste confiscated in Minneapolis some years ago. Never again.