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Kari · Dooney & Bourke

Checking Bags In NYC...

laken1 · Hermes

I really hate to say this but here is my issue with this. When they "randomly" search through someone's bag, they always pick someone like me, and let the scary, more likely bomber guy behind me go. It's like they don't want to "profile" & discriminate. I really don't think this will help. I got my $11 brand new cuticle scissors taken out of my makeup bag (ok, so I wasn't thinking). But i'd be willing to bet that the guy (or girl) with the bomb knows how to hide it & can get it on the plane.

Maybe that's a non-enlightened point of view, but that's what I think every single time I hear that they are "tightening" security measures.

jen · Kate Spade

Anyhting that keeps me from getting blown up, I'm all for. I don't know how much good these searches do as Laken1 said but I'd like to know they are doing something to help.

kiwi · BCBG

it might be a hassle, but i think people would feel more secure if they knew bags were being randomly searched. granted it's time consuming and annoying, but people would always find something to complain about. if there were no random searches, ipeople would complain that the government/anti-terrorism-unit-or-whatever wasn't doing enough to protect the passengers/commuters.

and then the stories that 'so-and-so managed to slip a 5 inch knife on board a plane in a routine test' come up and blow everything out of the water hopefully technology will catch up?