Agents just staring at people
Oct 22, 2015, 6:36 pm
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Agents just staring at people
On my trip to BWI the and back today the lines to check ID;s were long at both CLE and BWI, both airports had a TSA agent just staring at people, not doing anything productive. Why can't they help process people instead by checking ID;s.
Oct 22, 2015, 7:58 pm
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BDOs never do anything productive.
Nov 4, 2015, 10:42 am
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Nov 4, 2015, 10:59 am
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Seriously, that's probably on the list of suspicious behaviors.
Along with scratching, yawning, laughing, crying, declining direct eye contact and breathing.
OT, just once I had a particularly offensive groper - at PHX T2, of course.
She restarted my grope several times because she insisted I maintain direct eye contact. I looked in her eyes, as instructed. When she got very close to reach her arms to my sides to put her hands in my waistband, I lost eye contact. She stopped, pulled back, folded her arms and said we'd have to start all over again.
She must have practiced that cr*p a lot, because personally, I found it very difficult (abnormal, actually) to maintain constant eye contact - particularly when the individual in question is kneeling in front of me and has just groin-chopped me hard enough to make me cry out.
Along with scratching, yawning, laughing, crying, declining direct eye contact and breathing.
OT, just once I had a particularly offensive groper - at PHX T2, of course.
She restarted my grope several times because she insisted I maintain direct eye contact. I looked in her eyes, as instructed. When she got very close to reach her arms to my sides to put her hands in my waistband, I lost eye contact. She stopped, pulled back, folded her arms and said we'd have to start all over again.
She must have practiced that cr*p a lot, because personally, I found it very difficult (abnormal, actually) to maintain constant eye contact - particularly when the individual in question is kneeling in front of me and has just groin-chopped me hard enough to make me cry out.
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Nov 4, 2015, 11:10 am
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Seriously, that's probably on the list of suspicious behaviors.
Along with scratching, yawning, laughing, crying, declining direct eye contact and breathing.
OT, just once I had a particularly offensive groper - at PHX T2, of course.
She restarted my grope several times because she insisted I maintain direct eye contact. I looked in her eyes, as instructed. When she got very close to reach her arms to my sides to put her hands in my waistband, I lost eye contact. She stopped, pulled back, folded her arms and said we'd have to start all over again.
She must have practiced that cr*p a lot, because personally, I found it very difficult (abnormal, actually) to maintain constant eye contact - particularly when the individual in question is kneeling in front of me and has just groin-chopped me hard enough to make me cry out.
Along with scratching, yawning, laughing, crying, declining direct eye contact and breathing.
OT, just once I had a particularly offensive groper - at PHX T2, of course.
She restarted my grope several times because she insisted I maintain direct eye contact. I looked in her eyes, as instructed. When she got very close to reach her arms to my sides to put her hands in my waistband, I lost eye contact. She stopped, pulled back, folded her arms and said we'd have to start all over again.
She must have practiced that cr*p a lot, because personally, I found it very difficult (abnormal, actually) to maintain constant eye contact - particularly when the individual in question is kneeling in front of me and has just groin-chopped me hard enough to make me cry out.
Nov 4, 2015, 12:08 pm
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I never got an answer. I've heard the spiel countless times and been groped countless times and never once been told I had to maintain eye contact throughout the spiel and grope and I've never heard of anyone else being told to do so.
I'm not confrontational by nature, and I go out of my way to be compliant and cringing at the checkpoint. PHX T2 is obnoxious to folks with any kind of medical issue, particularly anyone who can't use the NoS, but this was the worst physical experience I ever had.
After the fifth (yes, fifth) restart, I started shaking and my chest started hurting. She groin-chopped me really hard, I yelped and doubled over. I stopped her and asked for a supervisor and the police. I asked for the police because I didn't want any cr*p about her being the supervisor or a supervisor not being available.
Frankly, I was terrified at that point. The TSO told me the cops would arrest me, I felt trapped, my chest was hurting and I didn't have my nitro pills with me.
The supervisor said that the moat dragon was wrong, that I was not an 'opt out' and should not have been selected for a grope. I have had the misfortune of flying through PHX T2 many times, and the supervisor was flat out lying about that, but I wasn't stupid enough to point it out. Then she announced that she would conduct the grope (that she had just told me never should have happened). The police were there and watched.
I'm not confrontational by nature, and I go out of my way to be compliant and cringing at the checkpoint. PHX T2 is obnoxious to folks with any kind of medical issue, particularly anyone who can't use the NoS, but this was the worst physical experience I ever had.
After the fifth (yes, fifth) restart, I started shaking and my chest started hurting. She groin-chopped me really hard, I yelped and doubled over. I stopped her and asked for a supervisor and the police. I asked for the police because I didn't want any cr*p about her being the supervisor or a supervisor not being available.
Frankly, I was terrified at that point. The TSO told me the cops would arrest me, I felt trapped, my chest was hurting and I didn't have my nitro pills with me.
The supervisor said that the moat dragon was wrong, that I was not an 'opt out' and should not have been selected for a grope. I have had the misfortune of flying through PHX T2 many times, and the supervisor was flat out lying about that, but I wasn't stupid enough to point it out. Then she announced that she would conduct the grope (that she had just told me never should have happened). The police were there and watched.
Nov 4, 2015, 12:23 pm
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I imagine the groper took great delight at being able to see your suffering. She sounds like a psychopath to me.
Nov 4, 2015, 12:49 pm
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Nov 4, 2015, 3:31 pm
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