To be fair to the security, the biggest problem is the idiot passengers!
Whenever I have been in the queue, there have been numerous ladies with more jewellery on than BA Baracas, and the number of people who seem to be totally dumbstruck when they get to the front of the queue and haven't removed a single item of metal work, go through the scanner, beeep! Keys, watch, belt, glasses, rings.
"you mean I have to take off off my metalwork too!?"
Would cut down the queues by half!
And fair play to the security officer at Brum who marched the Czech (who had nonchalantly walked past the queue to the front!) to the back.. "IN THIS COUNTRY WE DO SOMETHING CALLED QUEUEING!"
