last month we were coming back to brazil from denver, when her backpack was flagged for "inspection". when i asked the TSA officer why, she was quite polite and said "the x-ray inspector said there's a water bottle on her backpack". we were 100% sure that there was nothing like that because we triple checked before getting into the line.
when the 'inspector' looked at her bag and the x-ray image on the monitor, it was not the same bag. the x-ray guy marked the wrong bag for inspection and the bag with the water bottle was already gone. the inspector apologized and let us go.
my wife's question after we were gone was: "if they think water bottles could be bombs, shouldn't they close the airport?"
last month we were coming back to brazil from denver, when her backpack was flagged for "inspection". when i asked the TSA officer why, she was quite polite and said "the x-ray inspector said there's a water bottle on her backpack". we were 100% sure that there was nothing like that because we triple checked before getting into the line.
when the 'inspector' looked at her bag and the x-ray image on the monitor, it was not the same bag. the x-ray guy marked the wrong bag for inspection and the bag with the water bottle was already gone. the inspector apologized and let us go.
my wife's question after we were gone was: "if they think water bottles could be bombs, shouldn't they close the airport?"
now she knows why TSA is a farce.