I was flying out of Atlanta yesterday and encountered this stupidity.

Sir, your bag has been randomly selected for X-Ray. Fine.
Do you have any film? No.
Do you have any sharp objects? No
Do you have a weapon? No.
Have a great day. Thanks.

Do you have a weapon? How stupid is this? What was I going to say? "Well yes, actually I do." "My can of shaving cream is really an aerosol version of the Ebola virus"

Anyway, they were herding people through the security checkpoints like cattle at an auction. There is no way, NO WAY, they could catch everything. I heard one screener tell another "we done jis gotta move em' thru - we's got a backlog build up". The other screener "I's fixin to go on break".

This is ridiculous, there has to be a better way. Maybe we should make it mandatory for all applicants to the FBI, ATF, Border Patrol, local Police departments, etc., to do a stint with airport security. Or, get serious about it and do it like Israel.

The fact is the majority of these people are dumber than a box of rocks.