What triggers TSA checked bag random search?

Think my ski bag is batting 100% for getting checked. Usually large bags, oversized luggage, or weird looking items will get checked. Not sure about regular luggage

Electronics in. Checked bag is a search 100% of the times. I was flying back from Los Angeles with a ton of edibles in my bag. It got searched. They left the edibles alone. Just wanted to look at the laptop I had in the checked bag.

Apparently middle age white guys.
They get me all the time.

Everytime I bring Cards Against Humanity they pull it out of the x-ray in my carry on. It's fun watching TSA employees read the cards.

Something about a box within a box makes them nervous? I've had other card games get pulled. I can see the machines and what they see. I really don't know what they think it is. It just looks like a rectangle within another rectangle.

It's density of the item. If the X ray can't see through it (it appears as a solid mass on the x ray screen) they will want to hand examine it. In my former life, any time I checked my body armor the ceramic plates and the helmet would prompt a hand search. Even when they knew the bag had government equipment in it.

I have a period in my last name so that usually does me in

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Random is the operative word.

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I would tend to agree if it had happened once on this trip but it happened on the way there and back with the same checked bag. I fly pretty regularly and have never had it happen once before. I did have my Surface Pro and the hiking poles in the bag so it makes sense if one or both triggered something from the X-ray

My wife is Canadian. Red hair and white as a sheet. She was flying back to Toronto to see her mom and the line was all kinds of burqua wearing people. Guess who they picked to do a 'random' check on. The one little white speck with red hair is getting the triple frisk while abdul and his 8 wives get a free pass.

Laws are for the people who choose to obey them. They will stop and frisk the least person they think will give them a hard time.

I've never had the 4 S's for extra search, but the body scanner showed a bulge in my pants. So I had to be felt down in line. It was kind of embarrassing but I got to use the "is all me" line.

Hiking equipment will be me sometimes I guess, I did get stopped for a hammock one time.