I was doing a bag check and the woman assembling her things next to me told someone that she'd been tested for drugs "At least three times!" She sounded put out. So I looked over and said, "We don't test for drugs. We don't care about drugs. You can carry all the drugs you want." It at least got a glimmer of a smile out of her.
She might have thought I was lying if she'd seen all the fuss about the guy who was carrying a large amount of currency later on in the evening, though. Some of my coworkers are seriously rather annoyed about this, because we aren't supposed to be looking for drugs or indications of drug running. If he's not carrying something that will take down the plane, which he was not, he probably wants to get where he's going just as much as the next person, regardless of him possibly being a drug dealer. And if that money really was church donations (not likely given how he was sweating and shaking, but possible) he might bring legal action and try to say he was stopped because he was a black man. Couldn't be further from the truth, actually. I strongly suspect that the whole reason a fuss was made was that he was exhibiting so many signs that something was off that the Supervisors present couldn't turn off their radar and say "It's not something that's going to take down the plane, we don't care."
The cops, otoh, were totally bland about the situation - they need to show actual drugs, not probable drug profits. I'm sure they would rather that no fuss had been made at all so that they could watch him do a few runs and then scoop him up on his way back in with the stuff.
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