Shini
Go Kart Champion
- Location
- Lubbock, TX
If they didn't pull the person to the side to further inspect, and something DID happen - they'd never hear the end of it.
So you found residue on this person?
yes.
But no gun in the bag?
yes.
but turns out they had an explosive that looked like a cell phone/chocolate bar/whatever and it blew up a plane with 250 people on it?
yes.
why didnt you search them when the residue was spotted?
I dunno.. i let the machine do its job, instead of also doing mine.
tl;dr:
Explosive made of different chemical compound that differs from a cell phone/chocolate bar? Because if it is different, they'd know you have it, and then they'd get on to doing their jobs. Of course. If you don't have any elements, and or any elements in excessive amounts to create a potentially deadly weapon, and the guy sitting in the chair watching your bag roll through didn't see anything out of the ordinary, then that's it. The machine is telling them your hand, you've got a fking pair of 2's, MOVE ON. Now the guy behind you with pocket aces and has some materials on him in enough amount to make a bomb? Yeah lets pull him aside.
Just because there's evidence of foul play doesn't mean there is any, if the machine can scan you from head to toe, get a chemcial break down of EVERYTHING you have on you, and in your bag, and no explosive materials show up, no gun metals, but you have a trace amount of something or another, why would they?
Due dilligence will be if you have a higher than "normal" amount of explosive material, chemical, or if you've freaking wolverine and have tons of metal SOMEHWERE on your person or bags.
Don't want to get patted down and asked to step aside? Don't pack 12 things of mouthwash then, buy some when you've reached your destination.
If you don't, they're going to just waive you along, why waste their time searching someone that CLEARLY has nothing? That's the purpose of the machine. John Doe has some residue on his shirt, but the machine showed nothing in his bags or person to not have a high enough amount of X materials/compounds. Done. Waive him by. Not "OH crap, he must be up to something, founded a new way to make a bomb from a new element he created, yeah we better search him"
I just don't see it happening. If the machine can show them without a shadow of a doubt you don't have the recquired elements, or enough amount of them to cause harm to anyway, they're not going to bother with you.
And of course this is all IF they're even going to set the damn thing to even look for trace amounts of anything!