Well, according to the national security, anyone can be a terrorist, even the nutty idea of placing a bomb inside your body for a messy death.
I have MS and have an implanted Baclofen pump (about the size of a hockey puck.) They could very well interpret it to be something else.
TSA searches depend on who happens to be doing the searching.
I tell them first I have a pump, show them approximately where it’s implanted so if/when they see it on the scanner they’ll know it’s not a bomb...and I give them
an ID card that says I have the pump.
I’ve had them wipe my hands for residue and wipe down my entire wheelchair. Other times they really wanted me to go through the whole body scanner, and I can stand, so I obliged, then they wanted me to put my hands above my head, and that wasn’t happening, so they let me go anyway.
Another time they didn’t care about me, or the pump...they were obsessed with the wheelchair and practically took the whole thing apart.
It’s like each TSA unit operates any way they want, and what’s important to one, isn’t to the other, and vice versa.
But there are plenty of folks going through airports with implanted devices, pacemakers, pumps, etc. so I understand a certain level of concern.
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>> “Well, according to the national security, anyone can be a terrorist...” <<
Anyone but a muslim jihadist you mean.
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