Airport pat-downs: exercise in futility {Gadling}

Jan 4th 2010 6:36PM In the UK they don't care. I got the full body pat down at Heathrow, even though I'm a white female natural born American and there was no apparent reason to do so (i.e. the metal detector didn't beep). It was random. And had I the inclination to have a round of 20 questions with their security people, I could have gotten cheeky with the girl. I decided that probably wasn't a good idea if I wanted to leave some time that day LOL