Originally Posted by
Phileas Fogg
Vobiscum,
Actually that time I was travelling to a non EU country having overnighted in DUS, I only recall security once but what a 'performance' and I would question what possible threat can a boarding pass be? It is either a piece of card recently issued by the airline staff or, if checked in by internet, a piece of A4 paper but it MUST go through the machine!
Good example of how arbitrary and inconsequent most of this screening is (with the logical exceptions that make sense and maybe some that make sense only for the involved and cleared for classified stuff). In the US you MAY NOT put your boarding pass onto the scanner as you have to show it to the TSA guy behind it... duh!