[mattduke]

One perk of being an apparatchik is a "get of of the TSA backroom free" card. Senator Diaper Dave is a free to continue his ruinous plunder of the taxpayers.

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$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')horemaster and adult diaper fetishist (oh, and US Senator) David Vitter freaked the fuck out in an airport earlier this month. He will not be charged, because motherfucker can get away with anything.

[mattduke]

Don't miss this one people.

Steve Bierfeldt, member of Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty was detained by the TSA for possessing about $4700 cash. Unbeknownst to the TSA goons, Steve recorded the entire encounter.

Here is a television show on the incident.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMB6L487LHM

Here is the entire recording.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEJpzVPmih0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAWSmyG4XPU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWz0gi2thEM

[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'M')onroe was caught with 40 grams of cocaine, 65 grams of marijuana bagged for sale, a shotgun, two pistols, close to 100 rounds of ammunition and more than $6,000 in cash.

He's being held without bond.

Police are calling Monroe a mid-level drug dealer, and now the real work begins to try and find out who his suppliers are.

Monroe is a security officer for the Transportation Security Administration based at OIA.

[mattduke]

Terrorists thwarted by new regulation requiring middle names.

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[smallpoxgirl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mattduke', 'T')errorists thwarted by new regulation requiring middle names.

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[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')rizona's state treasurer is not-so-subtly accusing President Obama's Homeland Security chief of abusing America's "no-fly" list to satisfy a personal vendetta against him.

State Treasurer Dean Martin told Arizona CBS affiliate KPHO that his name suddenly appeared on the government's list of those banned from US commercial flights after former Arizona governor Janet Napolitano became head of the DHS.

Martin claims the airline blacklisting may be related to his past political rivalry with Napolitano.

"My staff used to joke after my disagreements with the previous governor that I wouldn't be able to fly once she got back in D.C." he told KPHO. "I didn't believe them, but it's actually happening."

[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'B')ryce Williams wasn't expecting to walk through a metal detector or have his bags screened for explosives at the Greyhound bus terminal near downtown Orlando.

But Williams and 689 other passengers went through tougher-than-normal security procedures Thursday as part of a random check coordinated by the U.S.

[mattduke]

All your snow globes are belong to us. I guess they were so busy printing up signs like this they couldn't answer the phone from the father of the recent underbomber.

[efarmer]

mattduke quoted:

Bryce Williams wasn't expecting to walk through a metal detector or have his bags screened for explosives at the Greyhound bus terminal near downtown Orlando.
But Williams and 689 other passengers went through tougher-than-normal security procedures Thursday as part of a random check coordinated by the U.S.

<end of quote>

Greyhound is missing a business builder in all of this. Strip search and anyone
that is found wearing clean underwear rides for free until they flunk during
transfer at a depot or get to where they are going.

[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A') TSA agent was arrested on January 3rd in Terminal One at LAX, a source told NBCLA. He had just gotten off duty and was behaving erratically, saying, "I am god, I’m in charge."

[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')irport shut down by incompetent TSA authorities after jars of honey flagged as explosives

[katkinkate]

So, solid cosmetics are still OK. What happens when someone manages to load a lipstick holder with C4?

[mattduke]

OK, this may be a shock for you, but the TSA did not, I repeat, did NOT overreact when a man inadvertently brought some shotgun shells along with him.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,582803,00.html

[mattduke]

Full body porno-scans of bollywood star Shah Rukh perform the impossible and get stored, printed out, and passed around the airport.

http://in.news.yahoo.com/43/20100206/90 ... can-p.html

[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he Wyncote native was detained for five hours after Transportation Security Administration screeners grew suspicious about something in his pockets.

Arabic-language flash cards.

[Newfie]

I have a F@#$ TSA story. I won't go into the whole detail here but..........

If they "lose" your laptop, or anything else, out of your luggage then they send you a form. Forget that they apparently have a bunch of crooks working in their baggage inspection team, I'll write the laptop off to my own stupidity for having it there. The form is what scares the hell out of me.

SF-95 TORT CLAIM PACKAGE

http://www.tsa.gov/assets/pdf/sf-95_claim_package.pdf

The name of it tells you there is something wrong right away. They have identified the enemy, and it is US. It is an adversarial piece of junk. Their attitude really gripes me. They clearly have no idea that they are civil servants (or contractors getting paid by us) and that they are here to protect and serve us, the taxpayers and passengers who pay their salary. From a PR perspective this from is terrible. This form must have been vetted by someone at a fairly high level, obviously an attorney from the title. Which means that the hire idiots for attorneys and then advance them to decision making levels.

But here is the kicker. Look at the form and you will see that it is three types of loss; property, personal injury, and wrongful death. WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Right, if the #$%^&* TSA caused my wife's or daughter's "wrongful death" do they really think I'll be sitting at the kitchen table going.

"Well lets see, she had on a really nice coat that was worth about $250, and the shoes were designer so that's another $175, then she had about 15 years left to retirement at, oh lets see $42,000 per year (in todays dollars) so that makes her corpse worth about $42,425.00 give or take, less depreciation."

I don't think so. I think I would want to at least talk to someone, quite possibly a lawyer. And I don't think that a lawyer, even an idiot lawyer would advise me to fill out a form like that.

I can't imagine how they could even possibly cause a "wrongful death" claim. It scares me that they think they are capable of it and need to guard against it.

IDIOTS!

[eXpat]

Daniel Rubin: Another case of TSA overkill
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'R')yan was taking his first flight, to Walt Disney World, for his fourth birthday.

The boy is developmentally delayed, one of the effects of being born 16 weeks prematurely. His ankles are malformed and his legs have low muscle tone. In March he was just starting to walk.

Mid-morning on March 19, his parents wheeled his stroller to the TSA security point, a couple of hours before their Southwest Airlines flight was to depart.

The boy's father broke down the stroller and put it on the conveyor belt as Leona Thomas walked Ryan through the metal detector.

The alarm went off.

The screener told them to take off the boy's braces.

The Thomases were dumbfounded. "I told them he can't walk without them on his own," Bob Thomas said.

"He said, 'He'll need to take them off.' "

Ryan's mother offered to walk him through the detector after they removed the braces, which are custom-made of metal and hardened plastic.

No, the screener replied. The boy had to walk on his own.

Leona Thomas said she was calm. Bob Thomas said he was starting to burn.

They complied, and Leona went first, followed by Ryan, followed by Bob, so the boy wouldn't be hurt if he fell. Ryan made it through.

By then, Bob Thomas was furious. He demanded to see a supervisor. The supervisor asked what was wrong.

"I told him, 'This is overkill. He's 4 years old. I don't think he's a terrorist.' "

The supervisor replied, "You know why we're doing this," Thomas said.

Thomas said he told the supervisor he was going to file a report, and at that point the man turned and walked away.

A Philadelphia police officer approached and asked what the problem was. Thomas said he identified himself and said he was a Camden officer. The Philadelphia officer suggested he calm down and enjoy his vacation.

Back home in Glassboro a week later, Bob Thomas called the airport manager and left her what he calls a terse message.

He was still angry enough last week to call me after I'd written a couple of columns about travelers' complaints of mistreatment by screeners at the airport.

"This was just stupid," he told me.

At the very least, it was not standard procedure.

On Friday, TSA spokeswoman Ann Davis said the boy never should have been told to remove his braces.

[rangerone314]

I love this thread. It reminds me why I avoid flying.

Every $ I don't spend on air travel is one $ closer to killing the beast (and the stupid bureaucracy it supports).

[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]A Transportation Security Administration screener at Boston's Logan International Airport has been charged with raping a 14-year-old girl.

[mos6507]

You don't like it? Don't fly. The planet doesn't need the emissions.

The more uncomfortable flying is, the better in my book.