Got to thinking about having some fun with the TSA. How about stuffing a half pound or so of Italian Sausage in my jockey shorts (front) prior to entering the scanner? Good for a laugh or an arrest? Can’t imagine the latter as it’s not like making a joke about a bomb. And who says I can’t carry sausage anywhere I want to? It would be great to record the expression on the screen viewer’s face. Definite You Tube material.
Until you make the experiment, this requires speculation and so is better suited for IMHO than GQ.
Let us know how it turns out. (At least you’ll have something to snack on in the holding cell.)
Colibri
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Hmm.
Well, according to the TSA’s website, any food you take through the checkpoint is required to be wrapped, and take a trip through the x-ray machine. So I don’t know - I imagine how that would work out would depend on whether they detected it as a sausage (but not your wiener).
As for filming it, who the hell knows? I have a friend who once (at a very quiet checkpoint) ask and get permission to take a variety of still photos of the checkpoint and the people working their, as part of a project for school. Again, according to their website, the TSA itself does not ban photography at the checkpoint. The airport, however, might. And I’ve seen the TSA ‘request’ that someone who was not traveling put the camera down and basically get lost (which is how ‘dropping me off at the airport when I left for college’ almost turned into ‘and finally see dad being arrested for some damn stupid thing’).
I don’t imagine you’d get arrested or in any serious trouble for something like that, but on the other hand, I’d recommend you not be traveling on urgent business if you do it, because you’d probably end up experiencing the enhanced version of airport security.
Security personnel seem to be notoriously devoid of humor when working, so they’d probably lean towards the latter.
And here’s the problem – the screen viewer is in a separate room, and unlikely to invite you in. And with the viewer’s face thus inaccessible, your potential for enjoying a laugh is severely reduced.
Now, put a cocktail wiener in there and the TSA folks will have a ball telling about it, but you won’t get to see that. 
And that probably depends on whether Tim is Italian or not. 
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