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Originally Posted by Sliver
This was about 20 years ago, but I was in the Saskatoon airport with my iPod. The ####ing security monkey made me turn it on and he put my earbud in his ear to make sure it wasn't a bomb. I couldn't ####ing believe it.
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About six years ago, some guy ahead of me was going through security with an iPad with one of those keyboard covers. He was taking it out and the security person at the bins says "Nah, iPads and tablets stay in the bag." Alrighty then. I had a Surface 3 LTE (the first of the
fanless x86 Surface devices) with a type cover. So I leave it in my bag and the bin goes through. Buddy with the iPad ahead of me goes through no problem, I get yanked.
Security Moron: "You're supposed to take your laptop out of your bag."
Me: "This is a tablet, your own security staff told the guy ahead of me to leave tablets in the bag."
SM: "It has a keyboard."
Me: "It has a keyboard
cover just like the iPad of the guy ahead of me. What, is the x-ray machine picking up the processor architecture?"
SM: "It isn't the same."
Me: "Then explain to me the difference between a tablet with a detachable keyboard cover that can stay in a bag and a tablet with a detachable keyboard cover that must be removed from the bag." (I desperately fought against every urge imaginable to end this sentence with
"you mindless f-cking idiot".)
SM: *puts the Surface through the x-ray scanner separately* "Okay, it's good."
Me: "
No sh-t."