There is talk about color-coding passengers according to the risk that they are percieved to pose to airlines.
Green gets pretty much a pass, and walks on through. Yellow passengers get scrutinized and searched. Red passengers are not allowed on board and may be arrested.
For those who are new to this blog, when I travel by air, I seem to get picked for every search that can be done. I must look like a total wacko with my blond hair, green eyes and very white skin (except when I am sunburned). I not only get hit by every "random" search of effects (purse and carry on), I also get to take off my shoes to have them "sniffed". Even after passing successfully through metal detectors (always on the first try) I am pulled yanked out of line and "wanded". When the zipper on my jeans gives a slight beep - there is and immediat "WHAT IS THAT?" from the security person. After lifting up my shirt and allowing them to poke me in the stomach to make sure it is all me (not that there is much there to begin with), I am reluctantly allowed to board.
The Wonderful Spouse gets great comic relief in watching me try to get on a plane because this happens every time. Okay, so I actually made it to one connection without being searched, and I am not "wanded" every time but everything else is always searched. I have had times that I was going to take of my shoes to put them through the x-ray machine (to save the security people the trouble) and the guard said "no, no, keep your shoes on." When I got past the x-ray machine, the guard decided he wanted my shoes to "sniff". This stuff was going on even before September 11, 2001.
The only thing that I haven't had to do (besides a strip-search) was turn on my cell phone and hand-held computer. If they're going to go to the trouble of going thru everything else, wouldn't you think they would want to know my electronics are actually functioning as they should and not rewired to do something else?
So, as I was saying, since I am such a high profile person already (or so it seems) I have a feeling that I will be color coded red and will never be allowed to board a plane again.
Anyone that calls me a Red is getting a punch in the nose.
Posted by: Ravenwood | September 10, 2003 at 10:54 AM
Maybe they're just trying to see how far they can get to a strip search without getting punched. LOL
Posted by: Wichi Dude | September 10, 2003 at 07:24 PM
My color category? Plaid.
Posted by: Greg | September 11, 2003 at 01:41 AM
The thing is, that I know exactly how far I can get before I go to jail - and punching someone at the airport would be a quick way to get there!
Plaid - Bwahahaha, I think I want gingham
Posted by: bogie | September 11, 2003 at 05:31 AM