WMATA is making riding on Metrorail one step closer to being as annoying as flying. Some time in the near future they will be introducing random bag searches. The Post covered it yesterday. One nice feature of this new security is that they have published the search algorithm. The officers will choose a random number, N, and search every Nth person. No terrorist is capable of computing remainder arithmetic so we will be safe from attack. But if you were so smart, you could save yourself the "8 to 10 seconds" by making sure you aren't the Nth person.
Security theatre seems like a waste of money at the Metro. Do people even feel safer as a result of this?
8 hours ago
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