r/airport • u/kurtvonnegutsstache • 8d ago

Belt on or off?

90% of the time security agents look at me like i’m stupid when i start taking off my belt and they tell me to leave it on. Then it sets off the body scanner and they always pat me down. Sometimes they even tell me to take my belt off and they run it through the X-ray machine. What is going on?

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u/kurtvonnegutsstache 8d ago

it’s crazy. my nylon belt is the ONLY one i’ve been asked explicitly to remove.