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In reply to the discussion: Once again, I experienced zero problems with the TSA. [View all]mnhtnbb
(33,363 posts)Every time a journalist publishes a study of "checking" the system, it turns out there's at least a 75% failure rate
of things that aren't supposed to get through managing to get through.
Guess what? Your home airport just got dinged for a 95% FAILURE rate last July.
https://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2017/07/checking-checkers
My husband (Major, USAF, Ret.) has a hip replacement and he never gets through. Gets felt up every time.
He's had more than one pat down where it seemed to him (he's a psychiatrist) that the TSA agent was
getting off on the process.
I also have a hip replacement and it's 50/50 whether I get through or get the feel up routine. I had a knee replacement
last July, so I anticipate any further flying is going to get me 100% of the time now.
I'm done flying. TSA is worthless and the airlines are a PITA. We have done a lot of traveling for fun, but there isn't
anywhere I want to go any more worth the hassle of flying. Unless it might be a last flight out of the USA to look
for a place to live abroad.