Airport security, adequate or a facade?

[Lin W]

A little over a year ago, I took a friend in a wheelchair to Hilo airport to catch ATA back to the mainland. I went through their super security so I could wait with her until her plane boarded. I had to send purse and shoes through x-ray and myself through metal detector, then stand on footprints and be wanded and patted down. They searched my purse and confiscated my little, half-empty bottle of hand sanitizer. Finally I was cleared to take her to the gate. Later, when I got home and was changing clothes, I realized that, as I always do, I had a spare set of car keys (two keys on a metal ring with a metal tag and remote car door opener) tucked in my bra, and they had missed that completely. Kinda makes you wonder what else makes it onto the airplane, doesn't it?




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