TSA Agent Tries to Not Recognize NM Driver'se License as ID
Apr 19, 2013, 2:57 pm
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TSA Agent Tries to Not Recognize NM Driver'se License as ID
This afternoon, at the AA security checkpoint at JFK, the TSA ID checker saw my New Mexico ID and asked me if I had a passport, stating that they did not accept the New Mexico driver's license. I asked her if she was kidding and explained that New Mexico is a state. She looked like she did not know what to do. After looking around, she let me pass.
Apr 19, 2013, 3:06 pm
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This afternoon, at the AA security checkpoint at JFK, the TSA ID checker saw my New Mexico ID and asked me if I had a passport, stating that they did not accept the New Mexico driver's license. I asked her if she was kidding and explained that New Mexico is a state. She looked like she did not know what to do. After looking around, she let me pass.
Apr 19, 2013, 4:15 pm
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Apr 19, 2013, 6:30 pm
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This afternoon, at the AA security checkpoint at JFK, the TSA ID checker saw my New Mexico ID and asked me if I had a passport, stating that they did not accept the New Mexico driver's license. I asked her if she was kidding and explained that New Mexico is a state. She looked like she did not know what to do. After looking around, she let me pass.
Now, any guesses if this cerebral lightweight went to the same training class is this other cerebral lightweight
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/pract...tsa-agent.html
Apr 20, 2013, 7:14 am
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this is what happens when you hire high-school drop outs, put an uniform on them, demand everyone to call them "officers", and at the end of the day they are still who they are: idiots that probably can't survive a week working for McDonalds.
Apr 21, 2013, 9:56 am
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A few years ago I had a TSA agent at LGA claim that my Michigan drivers license was a fake, because "everyone knows" that Kalamazoo is in Canada, not the US. I held up the palm of my right hand, as all good Michiganders do, to show him exactly where Kalamazoo is, but he still did not believe me. He had to call a supervisor to verify. Unbelievable.
Apr 21, 2013, 11:30 am
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These people should be fired on the spot - why should I pay the salaries of these idiots? Honestly, I'm not sure I could keep my cool in this situation without yelling and verbally humiliating them in front of everyone.
Apr 21, 2013, 2:25 pm
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The currently valid US Passport Card is "rejected" more by the TSA than even a NM license that expired a few months ago. That's the TSA being the TSA: inconsistent.
Apr 21, 2013, 4:32 pm
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Apr 21, 2013, 4:58 pm
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Apr 21, 2013, 7:08 pm
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These people on average gets $45K salary with full benefits usually unmatched by private industry until you made management level. And Obama is whining the gov't can't make any cuts and the private sector needs to bare more burdens...
Apr 21, 2013, 8:39 pm
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Apr 21, 2013, 9:05 pm
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Outfit them all with personal IPads equipped with a tailored-for-the-TDC Google maps app to enable them to verify questionable geography. You can milk that for way more than $15k each, especially when you throw in replacement units every six months in order to keep the maps current...Throw in custom IPad cases with the DHS logo at $500 each, and you're onto something.
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