Differing standards in airport security during check in.

[takingSydney]

Fav moment in Melb earlier this year ... Wanded for the third time in a row in 24 hours and wasn't particularly happy and *might* have said something uncomplementary.

Was told by the uncharming wand witch that perhaps I should catch the bus instead if I didn't like their security.

If I wasn't running to board I might have made more of it, but ...

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

Don't try anything, TakingSydney.
Worst case scenario, is they call along the AFP "armed agents" and you miss your flight.
Them people have no sense of humour, and its best not to be too chatty with them, or to them.
I know that if I were to bring along my puffa jacket, its the red flag to the wand bull*.
Sure as clockwork, I get the cardboardy piece of laminated piece of paper shoved at me, and asked, have you had this done to you before, or other similar words.
I certainly would not try anything, even if I had all the time of the day to "toy" around with them. ""Ie, to bring along one or two of them old style alarm clocks so they would show up in the xray!"" Or have some metal somewhere on my body to make the thing go beep and hold every other traveller up!

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

Oh, one more thing, it seems that by the evening, after they have had enough of people to tally up their revenue, those guards will not stop anyone to wand.
They will just stand there, like a group of seagulls, this was at 6.15pm last Sat, I didn't have a puffa, but had a normal jacket, and was expecting the wand, but no.
They weren't even playing with it, like some do, twisting and thwirling the thing.