The wheelchair may have been the cause of that. So far, the ingrained "be polite to disabled people" meme consistently overpowers the "be paranoid" meme.
My (now) wife and I had to go to City Hall to get paperwork for our marriage in late September, 2001, in Boston, the city that the hijackers departed from. Paranoia was high. There were long lines to get through the metal detectors, and everyone was being carefully searched. They took one look at my wife's white cane, and immediately ushered her and her large backpack around the metal detector with no search.
Some day, we'll see a major terrorist attack carried out by someone disguised as (or actually!) a PWD, and then that will change.
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My (now) wife and I had to go to City Hall to get paperwork for our marriage in late September, 2001, in Boston, the city that the hijackers departed from. Paranoia was high. There were long lines to get through the metal detectors, and everyone was being carefully searched. They took one look at my wife's white cane, and immediately ushered her and her large backpack around the metal detector with no search.
Some day, we'll see a major terrorist attack carried out by someone disguised as (or actually!) a PWD, and then that will change.