When we flew to Vegas this spring, the girl in the third seat brought out her carry on homemade meal...metal fork included. Went right through the screening process...my bottle of water was found, and went in to the trash when they found found it.
I had a flight out of a small town week before last. Seven passengers on an 8 seat airplane.
1 cop and 3 TSA agents to clear us through security.
Vegas TSA stole $700 cash out of my carry-on luggage when they did their “extra check” after the x-ray machine showed them exactly where my cash was (coins are pretty obvious on the x-ray and where there are coins, there be gambling winnings in the form of large bills). They didn’t offer to have me observe the search... I now refuse to fly.