[JeeBoomba]

Don't most TSA inspectors make about as much money and have about as much training as a grocery store cashier? These guys aren't exactly the cream of the crop.

[smallpoxgirl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MD', 'D')on't take anything new, different, or unusual through airport security. Ship it UPS red instead.

[Kingcoal]

From an energy usage standpoint, jet airplanes are probably the most inefficient form of travel. I read somewhere that the average midsized jet, packed with passengers in every seat, uses about as much fuel as if each passenger drove to their destination in a car averaging about 24mpg.

Based on that, don't fret; you won't have to worry about air travel for much longer. Air travel will be the domain of the rich and famous as oil gets scarcer.

[mattduke]

To be locked with your TSA-backdoor lock I guess.


A laptop bag to defeat Osama Bin Laden. Somebody shoot me.
link

[mattduke]

Oh my. YouTube

[mattduke]

A 25-year-old Transportation Security Administration baggage handler was arrested Thursday at Miami International Airport, accused of illegally using a handicapped parking permit to park for free. link

[mattduke]

Don't get backroomed: link

[mattduke]

And that doesn't include the tax-feeder's salaries!
link

[mattduke]

"After a birthday trip to San Diego, 12-year-old Jeffery Martin flew home from San Diego a couple hundred bucks richer. He thought his wallet with the $265 bucks in birthday money would be safe inside a bag he checked." link

[mattduke]

You should no better by now than to subject yoourself to the goon squad. link

[Niagara]

{cups hands to mouth forming megaphone} MODS!!!!!

[mattduke]

I'm done.

[MD]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mattduke', 'I')'m done.

[Pops]

Thanks MD.

[Ferretlover]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mattduke', '"')After a birthday trip to San Diego, 12-year-old Jeffery Martin flew home from San Diego a couple hundred bucks richer. He thought his wallet with the $265 bucks in birthday money would be safe inside a bag he checked." link

[smallpoxgirl]

Yeah. What can you say? American's feel safer if someone gives them a non consensual rectal exam from time to time. I was at the airport today. The TSA agents wouldn't allow this lady's mother to pass a single key into the secure area. Made her go out and wait in line again for 20 minutes to get re-screened. Did someone design a nuclear bomb that fits in a key that I haven't heard about.

Of course it's all a sham. If terrorists wanted to hijack a plane, they wouldn't have a hard time doing it. The truth is that people in America just don't trust themselves with freedom anymore. They feel lost without someone in a uniform telling them what to do all the time. Strip search them and interrogate them and they feel more at ease with their role in the world.

[Denny]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', 'O')f course it's all a sham. If terrorists wanted to hijack a plane, they wouldn't have a hard time doing it.

[jupiters_release]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', 'T')he truth is that people in America just don't trust themselves with freedom anymore. They feel lost without someone in a uniform telling them what to do all the time. Strip search them and interrogate them and they feel more at ease with their role in the world.

[jdumars]

I just got back from flying to Portland. On the way back, I switched seats so I could have a great conversation with a Bosnian Muslim lady, I had a cork screw and a dry-point engraver in my carry-on. As has been said many other times, it's all theater.

[mattduke]

You're more likely to die from lightning.