M Paquette
Moderator Emeritus
Nodak said:You should have gotten their names and charged them with assault and battery.
And missed my flight home.
The TSA people are in a great position. They have an unending supply of random strangers coming through, all of whom have an important appointment to make, arranged at great expense, which they don't want to miss. This gives the odd sadist or criminal in the TSA ranks a certain advantage. Anyone protesting their actions or attempting to file a complaint will miss their flight. The airline won't be inclined to reimburse or rebook on a later flight without the customer paying, as they were at the airport, and chose to do something other than get on the scheduled flight.
Oh, and complaining is a TSA profiling marker for a possible terrorist. That will get you an exciting day in a holding cell.
http://articles.cnn.com/2011-04-15/...ection-officers-airport-security?_s=PM:TRAVEL
After that secondary inspection, my biggest desire by far was to get the hell away from those people. In retrospect, yes, getting the names would have been a great idea. However, it could also have caused me a great deal of trouble, from simply missing the flight (the airline was holding the door open for me, literally), to the ever popular "failing to follow the instructions of a designated official" in not leaving the checkpoint at once, but trying to get the names of the TSA people.