wow, now thats funny. I would have laughed in the guys face and asked to see paper work on inspections that tell them what will fail and what passes.
I had a guy tell me once that my cat. was bad. He brought me out to the shop to show me it was bad. He tapped the cat with his hand and said see you can hear the material inside ratteling. I then held the heat sheld over the cat and had him hit it again and guess what, no noise. What a bunch of tools these people are.