WSB-TV: ATL TSA agent arrested, charged with faking cancer for 5 years
May 18, 2015, 2:55 pm
#121
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Unfortunately, standing up for one's non-existent right to fly calls for saints with deep pockets (ask Phil Mocek) and a much stronger heart than I have.
This is the problem with a closed, secretive system like this: there is no way for me to 'clear' my name. There is a report on record that I have been warned about trying to 'artfully conceal' medical nitro to get it through the checkpoint. It's like a false hit on your credit report: there's no easy way to clear it - and that's how the system is designed.
I just think other people need to be aware of the potential risk. I have no reason to believe that those who took my pills are not still employed (possibly even promoted by now) and still confiscating nitro pills.
This is the problem with a closed, secretive system like this: there is no way for me to 'clear' my name. There is a report on record that I have been warned about trying to 'artfully conceal' medical nitro to get it through the checkpoint. It's like a false hit on your credit report: there's no easy way to clear it - and that's how the system is designed.
I just think other people need to be aware of the potential risk. I have no reason to believe that those who took my pills are not still employed (possibly even promoted by now) and still confiscating nitro pills.
I had not read Boggie Dog's comments to you that fall along the same lines as my thinking before I posted this. I don't want to come across as being unsympathetic, but you allowed the TSA to intimidate you and it has work spectacularly.
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May 18, 2015, 3:18 pm
#122
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Unfortunately, standing up for one's non-existent right to fly calls for saints with deep pockets (ask Phil Mocek) and a much stronger heart than I have.
This is the problem with a closed, secretive system like this: there is no way for me to 'clear' my name. There is a report on record that I have been warned about trying to 'artfully conceal' medical nitro to get it through the checkpoint. It's like a false hit on your credit report: there's no easy way to clear it - and that's how the system is designed.
I just think other people need to be aware of the potential risk. I have no reason to believe that those who took my pills are not still employed (possibly even promoted by now) and still confiscating nitro pills.
This is the problem with a closed, secretive system like this: there is no way for me to 'clear' my name. There is a report on record that I have been warned about trying to 'artfully conceal' medical nitro to get it through the checkpoint. It's like a false hit on your credit report: there's no easy way to clear it - and that's how the system is designed.
I just think other people need to be aware of the potential risk. I have no reason to believe that those who took my pills are not still employed (possibly even promoted by now) and still confiscating nitro pills.
You can do a FOIA for that report and I'm betting that there isn't one. FOIA can be done for little or nothing.
Agree, those people probably are still employed because you didn't do anything to draw attention to them.
You have an absolute right to travel but if you give that right away the only person to blame is the one you see looking back at you in a mirror.
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May 18, 2015, 4:24 pm
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Not good for Nitro pills. Nitro is not stable and will evaporate if not stored properly. That's why they are dispensed in small glass vials.
May 18, 2015, 4:34 pm
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http://carex.com/item/70020/Nitro-Now/#.VVpnsUZJc_Y
https://pillboxes.groupmedicalsupply...s#.VVpo20ZJc_Y
May 18, 2015, 5:07 pm
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Ha! The second one looks like something Lucrezia Borgia might have used!
I wouldn't do it with nitro pills. If they alarmed during a bag swab, I'd be guilty of 'artful concealment'. My prescription already comes in a bottle about the same size as in your two links, enclosed inside a regular pill bottle.
I wouldn't do it with nitro pills. If they alarmed during a bag swab, I'd be guilty of 'artful concealment'. My prescription already comes in a bottle about the same size as in your two links, enclosed inside a regular pill bottle.
May 18, 2015, 5:15 pm
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I am sorry, I thought that the big green bar across the top of the page you link to would be noticeable. It has the picture of the carry-on bag and the checked bag (which according to the legend of the system means it is allowed in carry-on or checked bags). That green bar indicates that the named item searched for is allowed.
On the blog, you bill yourself as part of the "TSA Blog team". If this is an official position, and not just a joke, then you must have some direct communication with HQ and can start sending reminders - daily, if need be - that the web site needs to be updated.
If it's not an official position, and your only contact with HQ is through the blog itself, I suggest you remove that line from your signature, as it implies a level of officialdom and authority that doesnt exist.
May 18, 2015, 6:08 pm
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Ha! The second one looks like something Lucrezia Borgia might have used!
I wouldn't do it with nitro pills. If they alarmed during a bag swab, I'd be guilty of 'artful concealment'. My prescription already comes in a bottle about the same size as in your two links, enclosed inside a regular pill bottle.
I wouldn't do it with nitro pills. If they alarmed during a bag swab, I'd be guilty of 'artful concealment'. My prescription already comes in a bottle about the same size as in your two links, enclosed inside a regular pill bottle.
May 18, 2015, 7:02 pm
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It's a freakin' pill bottle!!!! Would you be charged with artful concealment if you had a 7-day pill box? I think you are making mountains out of molehills with the TSA and, truthfully, I feel sorry for you that you are so cowed by these people that you are putting your health and, in fact, life in jeopardy.
Given the way my clearly-labelled pills were treated, I can't imagine trying to explain that I removed them from their labelled container to try to not call attention to them. That sounds suspicious even to me, and I'm not suspicious by nature.
May 19, 2015, 5:04 am
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rs back-up their underlings except on the most rare occasions -- regardless of the idiocy of what the underlings are saying.
