Stricter Security?

[loves to dive]

I always carry a water bottle, charger and cell phone, sometimes an umbrella. I always take all of those out of my bag before I walk through the scanners and hold them out in front of me. I make sure I put them in my hands where they are all visible, water bottle hanging from a finger and phone in one hand, umbrella and charger in the other. So far, I've not been flagged in any of the parks by doing this. I don't think I have anything else metal on me except maybe sometimes a rain jacket with a zipper but that's not very often. I tend to carry a poncho or a rain jacket with plastic snaps. I do have zippers on my skorts but those don't seem to set them off.

 

[Genie+]

I agree it is a combination of things together. Staff is one of those. Newer security might go slower and strictly by the book, while the more experienced/confident can run through things quicker. If a shift has a high ratio of newer staff that alone could back things up slower than typical.

 

[georgina]

By the way, I’d rather have educated randomness to the searches than to teach someone on these boards how to get around security

Do you consider telling someone to hold their phone and sunglasses case out in front of them to be getting around security? That is what security tells you to do. If not that, I’m not sure what you are referring to. I can’t recall seeing anyone here telling someone how to ‘get around’ security.

 

[DisneyFive]

Do you consider telling someone to hold their phone and sunglasses case out in front of them to be getting around security? That is what security tells you to do. If not that, I’m not sure what you are referring to. I can’t recall seeing anyone here telling someone how to ‘get around’ security.

No and I didn't mean it that way. I should have been more clear, sorry.

In my mind I was thinking how a discussion like this could lead down that path of trying to figure out how to not get your bags checked, which could be for innocent (or not) reasons.

 

[scrappinginontario]

No and I didn't mean it that way. I should have been more clear, sorry.

In my mind I was thinking how a discussion like this could lead down that path of trying to figure out how to not get your bags checked, which could be for innocent (or not) reasons.

Trust me, any such discussions are not permitted and would be immediately removed and warnings possibly given.

This thread is to help guests with ‘normal’ park items avoid getting stopped at security. I’ve been through security 5 times in the past 3 days and stopped twice so i’m still in the process of figuring out what I need to hold in front of me. The interesting thing is I was fine the 2 times we went to MK but was stopped in DHS and Epcot.

 

[DisneyFive]

Trust me, any such discussions are not permitted and would be immediately removed and warnings possibly given.

This thread is to help guests with ‘normal’ park items avoid getting stopped at security. I’ve been through security 5 times in the past 3 days and stopped twice so i’m still in the process of figuring out what I need to hold in front of me. The interesting thing is I was fine the 2 times we went to MK but was stopped in DHS and Epcot.

Have an awesome trip! Yeah, we thought we were doing everything right a few weeks ago and we would get pulled over once in a while too. Something must be getting flagged that we’re not aware of, but it wasn’t the end of the world because we were never there when there was a huge line to get in the park.