In what was an absolutely exemplary model of security at the Fort Worth courthouse I walked in to see one guard manning the security center.
“OK, so what’s the big deal,” you ask?
The big deal was that he was at the x-ray machine watching the purses, bags and other miscellaneous things scroll in and out of his view while we placed anything metallic that would set off the metal detector in plastic dishes, walked through the metal detector and picked them up on the other side, unobserved.
Had I timed it correctly I could have dropped off a bag to distract him at the x-ray machine and then placed a small gun (underneath a large wallet, or something else simply covering it for a ‘just in case’), walked through the metal detector, picked up my stuff and then grabbed my bag.
All of that without triggering any security alarms.
Security would have effectively been foiled.

I suppose I may be a little critical, but frankly, that sort of thing disappoints me.
I like to think that security guards are here for security purposes and not just for presentation.
However, I’m also aware that small setups like that are less than perfect anyway.

It appears that I might get called to serve on a jury anyway, but I’m uncertain as to when.
They sent us to lunch (I had Razzoo’s) and said, “Be back by 1:30.”
I picked up a book on CSS by Eric Meyer while on lunch.
If I have to wait I might as well do something useful for work.

Resting in Him,

Randy Peterman