Have you ever had a pat down at the airport?

Forgot to take my belt off so I got a pat down.

^See that’s perfectly logical. I forgot I had my wallet in my pocket one time while going through the scanner, and that caused an issue. But I wasn’t doing anything wrong this time, yet it happened twice. Curious.

Quite a few times. I do wear briefs. I tend to be looking around at things perhaps more than others do. I am tall and I think maybe look like someone who might be more threat-minded than others. I dress a little differently than some Americans. I’ve accidentally had knives and scissors on me that have been not allowed through the checks, though they were never on my person. I’ve sometimes worn belts through the machines.

But, I expect it’s also often just random.

On my most recent trip, I didn’t get much attention, and they told me I could wear my belt through the scanner.

Sadly, no.

A couple times for various reasons. Not a big deal. Once was because I was wearing compression socks, and their scanners couldn’t get a good image of my right leg. Another time was purely random, they said.

I wear boxers, but I’m not sure that matters.

Always male patdowns, and always wearing blue gloves.

Absolutely. I think they wanted to feel what I was packing.

I’ve gotten patted down several times. Most of the time it’s been pretty innocuous but in France, I had a really uncomfortable pat down from a woman who put her hands inside the band of my underpants. It felt really invasive. Another time, a TSA person said that perhaps the wire in my underwire bra had set things off but it’s also happened when I have worn a regular bra. i think it’s just random but that time in France was not comfortable.

Yes. For no reason except an excuse to put their hands on me!

@Forever_Free Well, that’s what I said. I was like “that’s not a pipe bomb, that’s just my package. God delivered it, I signed for it…”

I think once, by a woman. It was very quick and not very touchy-feely.

Sure. It was fine. I thanked them for doing their job.

Yes, didnt bother me at all except having to take off my shoes. Gross.

I had one last Saturday at Oakland. I am TSA Pre check, so usually just go right through, but since I cannot go through metal detector, sometimes they will pat me down even after going through the scanner..

I have never been inside of an airport.

Three times I’ve had a pat down. . . .two other times I had my hands and carry-on ” taped” which was then put in a drug sniffing machine.

After my prostate surgery and long recovery I had to wear a pee pad in my briefs.
i was patted down – with the back of the hand – pretty frequently. The pad held a fair amount of liquid so that was perfectly understandable.