A Pennsylvania architect says that two years ago airport security threw him in a jail cell for 23 hours because he wished to file a complaint when his search was taking too long, said a lawsuit for $75,000 in damages filed last week. Roger Vanderklok was at a security checkpoint at Philadelphia International Airport on January 26, 2013 hoping to fly to Miami to run a half-marathon when security mistook his Power Bars and his watch for a bomb and explosive device. Vanderklok claims that he complained when TSA official Charles Kieser and other staff searched his bag for 30 minutes without telling him what they were searching for.
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Roger Vanderklok was at a security checkpoint at Philadelphia International Airport on January 26, 2013 when his bag was searched by TSA
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Vanderklok had Power Bars and a heart monitoring watch in his bag which airport security thought might be an explosive device
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Vanderklok filed a lawsuit against a TSA agent he claimed lied in court about Vanderklok making a bomb threat he did not make
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Surveillance footage of the incident shows that Vanderklok maintained his calm throughout the interaction
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Confusion: @placeholder workers initially thought that the power bar in Vanderklok's bag along with a heart-monitoring watch were a possible explosive device
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@placeholder who thought ‘organic matter’ meant just fruit and vegetables said no.
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I have never been arrested in my life, never had handcuffs put on,' @placeholder said of the traumatic experience