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Next, my 5 year old granddaughter was singled out for a body search, even though she had just emptied her pockets, took off her shoes, and walked through the thing-a-ma-jig. (Fortunately for her, she had that very week learned to tie her shoe laces. Unfortunately for everyone else, it takes her about 5 minutes to do that.) In any case, her body search proceeded by wand. (I assume the wand metal detector uses an improved method of metal detection than the thing-a-ma-jig uses.)

p>But, I am pleased to say my little granddaughter was cleared to proceed. Man-o-man, I don't know what would have happened if she had been found to possess, say, a sharp pencil, or a toy with a sharp edge, or other such contraband. Would we have had to forfeit her, since we had no one at the airport who could have returned her to us? br> -- Al Reynolds /p> p> Thanks for pointing out the TSA foibles. So long as people are in the loop, there will be loopholes. We can only hope that detection technology advances to the point where humans become a support mechanism if not superfluous. Hope that happens before the next big one. br> -- Dick Sheppard br> Jersey City, NJ /p> p> And as long as Norm Mineta is running around loose, nothing is going to get any better. br> -- Al Markel br> SFFD ret /p>

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