That kid looked shifty to me and don't even get me started on the old lady behind him.
Seriously though. WTF? This is how they give us the illusion of safety? Let's round up all the little kids and elderly since those are the ones who will be most frightened and least likely to be a threat.
I like how they vigorously swabbed his hands for explosives residue. Sure, because not only did Al-qaeda sleeper cell a whole W.A.S.P. family for three generations, then send them to Disney to throw off the scent...but they had the three year old do the final bomb assembly. Diabolical!
Don't know if you noticed, but the elderly lady in the background had a clear cane. My grandfather has the same thing. They want him to send it through the x-ray, but he can't stand without it. He has asked for a wheelchair while they send his cane through the xray and they refuse him. He got one of those clear canes for when he travels (I think it's made of lucite?)
When he left Ohio for Florida in the fall...they insisted on running the CLEAR cane through the xray. I wonder if they "found" anything.
My mother has a friend who is a quadrapalegic. She only has mobility from her neck up. She was in a car with a drunk driver and got thrown through the windshield into a tree. Last time she traveled she was asked to get up from the chair so they could check it. Her husband (a police officer) explained that she is a quad, she can't walk. The TSA agent insisted that she wouldn't have to stand for long. When her husband said again that she was a quad and could not move from the chair, the agent asked, "Can she just lift her body so we can check the chair underneath her?"
TSA is getting rediculous! I travel quite a bit, and I've been full body searched because they wanted to throw out an ice pack that I had for medication because it wasn't frozen all the way. I got an attitude with them and told them they could go to hell and for that got the full search treatment.
Honestly, my biggest gripe is consistency. I can run thru big airports like LAX, DEN, LGA, ATL & MCO all day with no issues, but once I go thru a little po-dunk airport, everyone is all up in arms about some little thing.
With all these damn bag charges that cost you an arm and a leg to check a bag, it's even worse, because now i have to figure out how much of a bottle of friggin mouthwash I can bring before it gets confiscated (happened more than once). God forbid I have to check tools cause they may end up missing with the bag handlers. Travel is definitely not very easy anymore.
Not sure if I posted this before, if I did, I apologize.
Around 2005-2006 I had to rescue a friend from Vegas. He was an alcoholic with an additional quickly forming gambling addiction. After a three day bender at a Detroit Casino, he hopped a plane to Vegas. When he ran out of money the suicidal thoughts started.
At the behest of his wife I decided to go out there, sober him up, and bring him back.
I grabbed the first bag I could lay hands on in my office, threw some books and magazines in the outside pocket and headed to the airport in the middle of a workday. At the ticket counter I bought a one way ticket to Vegas, 40 minutes before the flight, with cash.
Add to this scenario that I have a pilots license and I just assumed I would get singled for "special screening." Sure enough, I did.
At the time, there were no body scanners and maybe only 1 out of 20 or 30 people were "specially" screened. I was polite. I got taken to a separate area where I was swabbed. Then an agent began emptying my carry on onto an inspection table and swabbing the bag. As she took the items out of my bag I started to piss myself.
I had three soft sided briefcases in my office. One was full of personal stuff like my laptop, books, household documents, bills, etc. The second was for work and had all my regular work stuff in it. The third, unfortunately was my flight bag, for when I excersize my pilots license. Guess which one I took?
The TSA agent opens the bag and begins removing items. Aviation headset and mic, aviation charts for most of the continental US., Kneeboard, flight computer, notebook with compass headings and fuel consumption rates written all over it, fuel tester cup, hefty stack of airport taxi diagrams folded to the size of the kneeboard, two flashlights, a small swiss army knife, handheld aviation radio....you see where this is going?
I assumed I was going to be detained right there. The TSA agent looks at me and says, "Sir, we have a bit of a problem here."
Fuck, I think...many fine books have been written from prison.
She holds up the minature swiss army knife, about 2.5" long in total and says, "You can't have this."
I tell her to throw it away. She says that I can mail it to myself, and she isn't asking me to throw it away. I say I'm in a hurry and just pitch it in the nearest trash can. The TSA agent quietly repacks my flight gear in the bag and hands it back to me.
"Have a nice day sir." Well, thanks...I think I will.
That kid looked shifty to me and don't even get me started on the old lady behind him.
Seriously though. WTF? This is how they give us the illusion of safety? Let's round up all the little kids and elderly since those are the ones who will be most frightened and least likely to be a threat.
I like how they vigorously swabbed his hands for explosives residue. Sure, because not only did Al-qaeda sleeper cell a whole W.A.S.P. family for three generations, then send them to Disney to throw off the scent...but they had the three year old do the final bomb assembly. Diabolical!
Don't know if you noticed, but the elderly lady in the background had a clear cane. My grandfather has the same thing. They want him to send it through the x-ray, but he can't stand without it. He has asked for a wheelchair while they send his cane through the xray and they refuse him. He got one of those clear canes for when he travels (I think it's made of lucite?)
When he left Ohio for Florida in the fall...they insisted on running the CLEAR cane through the xray. I wonder if they "found" anything.
My mother has a friend who is a quadrapalegic. She only has mobility from her neck up. She was in a car with a drunk driver and got thrown through the windshield into a tree. Last time she traveled she was asked to get up from the chair so they could check it. Her husband (a police officer) explained that she is a quad, she can't walk. The TSA agent insisted that she wouldn't have to stand for long. When her husband said again that she was a quad and could not move from the chair, the agent asked, "Can she just lift her body so we can check the chair underneath her?"
Idiots.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-upUQtBaHQ
TSA is getting rediculous! I travel quite a bit, and I've been full body searched because they wanted to throw out an ice pack that I had for medication because it wasn't frozen all the way. I got an attitude with them and told them they could go to hell and for that got the full search treatment.
Honestly, my biggest gripe is consistency. I can run thru big airports like LAX, DEN, LGA, ATL & MCO all day with no issues, but once I go thru a little po-dunk airport, everyone is all up in arms about some little thing.
With all these damn bag charges that cost you an arm and a leg to check a bag, it's even worse, because now i have to figure out how much of a bottle of friggin mouthwash I can bring before it gets confiscated (happened more than once). God forbid I have to check tools cause they may end up missing with the bag handlers. Travel is definitely not very easy anymore.
You're right Fish, airports just suck anymore. I can't stand flying, I feel like a criminal going through the airports. It's way out of control.
Not sure if I posted this before, if I did, I apologize.
Around 2005-2006 I had to rescue a friend from Vegas. He was an alcoholic with an additional quickly forming gambling addiction. After a three day bender at a Detroit Casino, he hopped a plane to Vegas. When he ran out of money the suicidal thoughts started.
At the behest of his wife I decided to go out there, sober him up, and bring him back.
I grabbed the first bag I could lay hands on in my office, threw some books and magazines in the outside pocket and headed to the airport in the middle of a workday. At the ticket counter I bought a one way ticket to Vegas, 40 minutes before the flight, with cash.
Add to this scenario that I have a pilots license and I just assumed I would get singled for "special screening." Sure enough, I did.
At the time, there were no body scanners and maybe only 1 out of 20 or 30 people were "specially" screened. I was polite. I got taken to a separate area where I was swabbed. Then an agent began emptying my carry on onto an inspection table and swabbing the bag. As she took the items out of my bag I started to piss myself.
I had three soft sided briefcases in my office. One was full of personal stuff like my laptop, books, household documents, bills, etc. The second was for work and had all my regular work stuff in it. The third, unfortunately was my flight bag, for when I excersize my pilots license. Guess which one I took?
The TSA agent opens the bag and begins removing items. Aviation headset and mic, aviation charts for most of the continental US., Kneeboard, flight computer, notebook with compass headings and fuel consumption rates written all over it, fuel tester cup, hefty stack of airport taxi diagrams folded to the size of the kneeboard, two flashlights, a small swiss army knife, handheld aviation radio....you see where this is going?
I assumed I was going to be detained right there. The TSA agent looks at me and says, "Sir, we have a bit of a problem here."
Fuck, I think...many fine books have been written from prison.
She holds up the minature swiss army knife, about 2.5" long in total and says, "You can't have this."
I tell her to throw it away. She says that I can mail it to myself, and she isn't asking me to throw it away. I say I'm in a hurry and just pitch it in the nearest trash can. The TSA agent quietly repacks my flight gear in the bag and hands it back to me.
"Have a nice day sir." Well, thanks...I think I will.
awesome lol
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At least they didn't want to check inside his asshole.