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Less than a buck...I can live with it.
The "security" usage makes me laugh though. We are regular bag draggers and I always chuckle as everyone drags their bags through the metal detectors that are either turned off or indicating metal in bags and no one cares. Security theatre at it's finest...although it is much better than if every passenger was subjected to a TSA level search. That would wreck the hourly schedule.
Now if they would just implement alternate schedules every 30 minutes (one company on the hour, one company on the half)....but that's another thread entirely
Thanks for the heads up!! Merry Christmas!
Safe Travels,
Jay
My thoughts exactly. The security guard just stands there as everyone goes through the detector. I could load my bag full of everything and be fine. You'd think they'd just have a couple of folks doing quick bag searches and save the money on the unused hardware.
Not too long ago you would have thought that a former governor is not a threat, either. And no one would have searched him when he boarded his own ferry...They are profiling. The scanner is a pretext to question someone that might be a threat. You're a tourist. You're assumed not to be a threat.
If I remember correctly, the ferry's used to be on alternative departures.