Unfortunately this is all too easy to visualise happening exactly as described, despite the frenetic denials seen here that such power-drunk behaviour could EVER be exhibited by one of our "brethren in the back".
It's a measure of the validity of the account that you get the responses here that you did, bableton. But is this story fundamentally any different to the experience the same passengers AND CREW go through at security? Of course not.
Some big fat police-academy reject rent-a-cop digs through hand-baggage (after it's been x-rayed) on the pretence that she saw something of a "security risk" whilst displaying a brusque, haughty attitude and NO manners or sympathy whatsoever but this time the bag belongs to the same puffed-up, mouthy 20yo cabin crew. NOW what does she think of authority, being as it's in the hands of some OTHER pain in the @rse and used AGAINST her?
Every tried talking back to these security neanderthals? Feel like a cavity search, followed by loss of job, do you?
Maybe the crew in Bableton's rendition of events had just been through this very security experience and was bent on seeing that someone, anyone, paid for her indignity.
The account of crew power-madness, whilst not the rule, is nonetheless totally valid in many cases but of course no one here is prepared to admit it, even after excessive preparatory blowing of "sunshine up @rses", to paraphrase Top Gun, at the beginning of the account. The very essence of the fragile self-image of cabin crew is at stake here and this tale is an attack upon it. What did you expect?