Have you ever seen the pick pockets that take someones watch while they are talking to them and put it on the persons other hand, without the owner knowing? Or the bump and grab with the wallet, billfold, etc. These people are magicians and are amazing (I'm still on the fence as to whether it is real).
I was at the airport and a guy some ways in front of me was really upset he had to take off his watch and then allow it to disappear through a machine for an unknown period of time, all while he could not watch the monitors. He made comments about it being very expensive and why couldn't he carry it on him and do an additional "hand/wand" scan.
I felt kind of the same way with my wallet going through, you know, where cash, ID and credit cards are kept. They even want the passport to go through. It's like virtually stripping of all possessions. This is ridiculous that they haven't figured out better methods.
They can supposedly tell the difference between ground coffee and marijuana of similar density by Xray only! lol. At least that is what those border patrol shows try to make you believe. This is done with a low resolution monitor (not 4K or anything). Considering they are both organic with some molecules being very similar and with almost identical densities. I find it totally unbelievalbe they can do this with xrays and human eyes.
Then there are probably millions of products of various shapes and sizes and you can't tell me that they can detect these from a non-distinct outline while moving at about 1 ft per second. So I have a hard time believing they can detect a modified cell phone, alarm, or whatever.
I'd be afraid that a valuable would be missing or switched out with something else and how can it be proven what was originally placed in the machine.
"Hey, I put in a $30,000 Omega Chrono Negro and you give me this Fossil Surfer Black!?"
Does anyone else have concerns about his, or other issues with TSA besides the obvious issue of getting "1/2 undressed...."
I was at the airport and a guy some ways in front of me was really upset he had to take off his watch and then allow it to disappear through a machine for an unknown period of time, all while he could not watch the monitors. He made comments about it being very expensive and why couldn't he carry it on him and do an additional "hand/wand" scan.
I felt kind of the same way with my wallet going through, you know, where cash, ID and credit cards are kept. They even want the passport to go through. It's like virtually stripping of all possessions. This is ridiculous that they haven't figured out better methods.
They can supposedly tell the difference between ground coffee and marijuana of similar density by Xray only! lol. At least that is what those border patrol shows try to make you believe. This is done with a low resolution monitor (not 4K or anything). Considering they are both organic with some molecules being very similar and with almost identical densities. I find it totally unbelievalbe they can do this with xrays and human eyes.
Then there are probably millions of products of various shapes and sizes and you can't tell me that they can detect these from a non-distinct outline while moving at about 1 ft per second. So I have a hard time believing they can detect a modified cell phone, alarm, or whatever.
I'd be afraid that a valuable would be missing or switched out with something else and how can it be proven what was originally placed in the machine.
"Hey, I put in a $30,000 Omega Chrono Negro and you give me this Fossil Surfer Black!?"
Does anyone else have concerns about his, or other issues with TSA besides the obvious issue of getting "1/2 undressed...."