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In reply to the discussion: Opting out of the airport body scanner "cancer machine" [View all]MindPilot
(12,693 posts)you are putting your fellow passengers at risk of further scrutiny.
Here's how it works: Passenger A is in the security line followed by B and then C.
Pass. B starts to spend a long time getting his shoes off or can't seem to stop fidgeting with the items in his pockets, creating some kind of delay.
Security people look at that situation--that individual--and see an attempt to create a distraction.
Suspicion is then focused on the people B arrived with, most notably A & C who are very likely now headed for a secondary inspection.
So, Mr Rich, while you are being all self righteous about not wanting to go through the x-ray machine, you are likely screwing over your fellow travelers.
Yeah, I will put my level of visceral hatred of TSA up against anybody, so I prefer not to deal with them, so please just shut up and let everybody get through the line as unmolested as possible.