I was interrogated for several hours following a random check of Customs and Borders Protection.
Concerned that competition for admission may encourage high school seniors to exaggerate their accomplishments, the University of California decided to conduct a random check of applications for this fall's freshman class.
A random check of start-up announcements showed that 24-hour availability seemed a natural fit for many companies.
When Kumar is asked to step aside for a random security check at the airport, he blusters about ethnic profiling, which it turns out is less a matter of righteous outrage than an attempt to distract the security agents from finding the marijuana in his underwear.
No arrests have been made in the Monday morning incident in which a U.S. Coast Guard crew attempted to board a sailboat for a random equipment check as it entered Newport Harbor.
He was picked up at the Pittsburgh airport in late October, bound for Beirut, after a random security check found an Exacto knife in his briefcase and news clippings about the Sept. 11 attacks in his bag.
It was bad enough that as a brown man I was often singled out for "random checks" at a number of Western airports; I wonder what kind of a ruckus will be created when a brown man sets off the metal detectors despite having absolutely empty pockets!
Mr. Green, for example, said that he was prepared for random checks of people in public places like Grand Central Terminal.
