TSA Stupidity

[scubaren]

I know seems bad, but these terrorists were rigging children(3-4 years old) with suicide vests and telling them pressing the button would shoot flowers out to the American troops. Had a Afgan security guard have a 4 year old kid come up to him and ask him what to do, the kid had got flusttered and forgot what he was suppose to do. Showed him the vest and they removed and disarmed the vest. So long story short this is why TSA is so bonkers about everything.

It seems to me that there must be a better way to keep people safe rather than terrorize the very young and elderly that come through the airport. The scenario you describe happened on a battlefield in Afghanistan, not in an airport terminal. This was obviously a young normal American boy with normal American parents who I might add were extremely patient with the idiot TSA.

 

[Flightlead]

What laymen would have thought a little fertilizer and some diesel fuel would blow up with such force, well, lot's of people actually and some people are evil enough to do such things.

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lots of people actually. its commonly used in rural areas for clearing tree stumps etc. Heck, I'm not rural and have never used it and I know that you take the volume you want clearing in cubic feet divided by 25 to get the lbs of ANFO needed.

 

[Flightlead]

There are so man other bigger/better/larger places to hide explosives than your shoes.....


yet because of this one person, TSA is now "show paranoid" and makes everyone take off their shoes....

If someone really wanted to blow up a plane, they could easily sneak in enough explosives in a wheel chair or baby stroller to blow a nice hole in it. much more than a shoe. (but they don't make people get out of chairs/strollers and never search them hardly). But yet they focus on shoes like crazy....

why would anyone even bother trying to get anything through the customer end of the airport. I wouldn't, its dumb when there are so many other ways. how about on a lunch tray via the catering service? through maintenance?

 

[SurDo2]

As for the posters that said all TSA people were a bunch of morons, a quicker way to find a moron would be to look in the mirrow when you shave tomorrow. Please make it a point to email me before you fly next time. I have some friends that work at a few different airports that would love to meet up with you and show you how the rules can be really be twisted and turned. If I offend you with this post. Good. I haven't ticked anyone off at work today, YET.

I will give you my name and travel plans the next time I fly to the US. I will even arrange my flight plans to transit an airport where your "friends" work. I will even go as far as to make sure I go through security when one of your "friends" is working. Why don't we try this and see who comes out the moron?

 

[Cave Diver]

I will give you my name and travel plans the next time I fly to the US. I will even arrange my flight plans to transit an airport where your "friends" work. I will even go as far as to make sure I go through security when one of your "friends" is working. Why don't we try this and see who comes out the moron?

Be sure to video it with your Iphone

 

[wedivebc]

Be sure to video it with your Iphone

Nope, I saw a guy get his camera confiscated at a TSA checkpoint because he took a picture of his friend passing though the metal detector about a month ago in SeaTac.

 

[Funky556]

It seems to me that there must be a better way to keep people safe rather than terrorize the very young and elderly that come through the airport. The scenario you describe happened on a battlefield in Afghanistan, not in an airport terminal. This was obviously a young normal American boy with normal American parents who I might add were extremely patient with the idiot TSA.

I'm not defending it just offering an explination, they over react and lack common sense in these matters. Frankly I think TSA is going the wrong direction and way too stringent. I don't believe we even needed TSA and I don't feel any safer just annoyed with them. I get the stink eye everytime I go through the airport. They must see my distain

 

[D_B]

Like was stated before, almost all of us have our TSA stories. The TSA and airlines all have their rules, they aren't difficult to find or read. If you don't like them, find a different way to get where you want to be. If I get ready for a dive and the boat starts laying out rules I don't like. I have a choice. I can cry, whine and bitch about them; or I can walk away and make alternate plans. It is very unlikely things will ever go back to the way they were, since the way we were was a large part of what got us to where we are. Like it or not, we're stuck with it.

As for the posters that said all TSA people were a bunch of morons, a quicker way to find a moron would be to look in the mirrow when you shave tomorrow. Please make it a point to email me before you fly next time. I have some friends that work at a few different airports that would love to meet up with you and show you how the rules can be really be twisted and turned. If I offend you with this post. Good. I haven't ticked anyone off at work today, YET.

thats it exactly .. you looked at the requirements that the boat operator posted before you booked, your getting ready to dive, and now you find the rules have changed altogether ... it's a little late now isn't it.

TSA ... I want my gear to arrive at the same destination, and at the same time as I do, and I'll secure it per any instructions that TSA posts, but
... You can find the rules, read the rules, follow the rules, and you still have no way of knowing that your well researched and laid out plans are anything but useless and it's all a luck of the draw ...

 

[lord.harshil]

Be sure to video it with your Iphone

Nope, I saw a guy get his camera confiscated at a TSA checkpoint because he took a picture of his friend passing though the metal detector about a month ago in SeaTac.

why am i not surprised.

i love my country. i can argue all i want without being dragged into a back room and being forced to miss my flight.

never ever travelling to africa. have yet to hear a good thing about the continent.

 

[djtimmy77]

Gotta love it when the TSA people at PBI x-ray your bag and see something they want that happens to be a gift for someone you are visiting, and use a razor to slice open the package, steal the item, and leave you the empty package with a big slice right in the middle.