This week in TSA history starting January 1, 2016
#197
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More Restricted Posting Procedure?
It looks like Blogdad Bob has eliminated the ability to post anonymously or by using a simple name. You now have to either link to a Google account or something called "open Media URL." Is there no way around exposing even more personal identity information in order to rip him a new one or am I missing something?
#198
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It looks like Blogdad Bob has eliminated the ability to post anonymously or by using a simple name. You now have to either link to a Google account or something called "open Media URL." Is there no way around exposing even more personal identity information in order to rip him a new one or am I missing something?
Isn't that a restriction of our First Amendment right of free speech?
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TSA Week in Review August 26th - September 1st
And the Secret Service wrestled the wheelchair to the ground...
http://blog.tsa.gov/2016/09/tsa-week...gust-26th.html
- 58 firearms this week in carry-on bags around
- A concealed knife was discovered in a wheelchair cushion at LaGuardia (LGA)
- A sword cane was discovered in a traveler’s carry-on property at Baltimore (BWI)
- Various knives were discovered at: SYR, SYR, SBP, IAD, TPA, IAH, PHX, PHX and BUR
http://blog.tsa.gov/2016/09/tsa-week...gust-26th.html
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TSA Week in Review September 2nd - 8th
I'll take guns and roses knives for $200 please Alex.....
*this was listed as a separate line item in this week's TSA's weekly "body count" so any one want to guess if these 4 guns are included in this week's count of 62 and the TSA is "fudging their numbers"?
http://blog.tsa.gov/2016/09/tsa-week...r-2nd-8th.html
- 62 firearms this week in carry-on bags
- 4 unloaded firearms were discovered in a traveler's carry-on bag* this week at Austin (AUS).
- Various knives and a throwing start were discovered at SYR, LAS, ANC, ORD,IAH, SYR and ORD.
*this was listed as a separate line item in this week's TSA's weekly "body count" so any one want to guess if these 4 guns are included in this week's count of 62 and the TSA is "fudging their numbers"?
http://blog.tsa.gov/2016/09/tsa-week...r-2nd-8th.html
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TSA Week in Review September 9th - 15th
Nothing to see here, please move along as it's just another week of guns 'n knives
http://blog.tsa.gov/2016/09/tsa-week...-9th-15th.html
- 68 firearms this week in carry-on bags around the nation
- Knives and a throwing star were discovered at BUR, MDW and CMH
http://blog.tsa.gov/2016/09/tsa-week...-9th-15th.html
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TSA Week in Review September 16th - 22nd
"In the even of an airborne evacuation of the aircraft, parachutes are optional but do not forget your parachute flares"
http://blog.tsa.gov/2016/09/tsa-week...16th-22nd.html
- 68 firearms were discovered this week in carry-on bags
- Live smoke grenades and parachute flares were discovered in a checked bag at Detroit (DTW)
- Three inert/replica grenades were discovered in carry-on bags this week at Jacksonville (JAX), Phoenix (PHX) and Grand Rapids (GRR).
- Two cane swords were discovered this week in traveler’s carry-on property at New York Kennedy (JFK) and Dallas (DAL).
- A throwing knife on a chain was discovered around a passenger’s neck during a pat-down after he opted out of body scanner screening.
- Various knives and throwing stars were discovered at DTW, SNA, OAK, LAS, SFO, IAH and PHX.
http://blog.tsa.gov/2016/09/tsa-week...16th-22nd.html
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TSA Week in Review September 23rd - 29th
We don't need no stinking five bladed floggers!
http://blog.tsa.gov/2016/09/tsa-week...23rd-29th.html
- 77 firearms were discovered this week in carry-on bags
- Two 5-bladed floggers were discovered in a carry-on bag at Houston (IAH)
- A loaded 9mm firearm was discovered underneath modeling clay and duct tape inside of a computer at Houston (IAH).
- A live smoke grenade was discovered in a checked bag at Phoenix (PHX).
- Two inert grenades were discovered this week in carry-on bags at Fayetteville (FAY) and Kansas City (MCI)
- Various knives, throwing stars and hatchets were discovered in carry-on bags at ABQ, SAN, LAS, BOI, MSO and PHX.
http://blog.tsa.gov/2016/09/tsa-week...23rd-29th.html
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TSA Week in Review 9/30 - 10/6
Nothing to see here other than guns and knives so please move along...
http://blog.tsa.gov/2016/10/tsa-week...w-930-106.html
- 76 firearms this week in carry-on bags
- Two cane swords were discovered this week at Bradley (BDL) and Houston (HOU).
- A belt knife was discovered in a carry-on bag at DTW.
- Various knives were discovered in carry-on bags at (clockwise) XNA, BWI, IAH, SAN, BUR and ANC
http://blog.tsa.gov/2016/10/tsa-week...w-930-106.html
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TSA Week in Review October 7th - 13th
Don't poke the <inserting my Boston accent here> bayah
http://blog.tsa.gov/2016/10/tsa-week...-7th-13th.html
- 75 firearms this week in carry-on bags this week
- 4 cans of bear repellant were discovered in carry-on bags this week at Honolulu (HNL) and Seattle (SEA).
- 3 replica grenades were discovered this week-2 at Atlanta (ATL), and one at Rochester (ROC).
- Various knives, throwing stars, a can sword and batarangs were discovered at LGA, BNA, LAS, SAN, DTW and LYH.
http://blog.tsa.gov/2016/10/tsa-week...-7th-13th.html
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TSA Week in Review October 14th - 20th
Just another week of stoopit people bringing guns and knives thru the checkpoint and the TSA patting themselves on the back for simply doing their job
http://blog.tsa.gov/2016/10/tsa-week...14th-20th.html
- 71 firearms were discovered this week in carry-on bags
- Various knives and throwing stars were discovered this week at LGA, BOI, BIL, HOU, BOI, SFO, BNA and CLT.
- A pen-knife was discovered in a carry-on bag at Kansas City (MCI).
- A belt-knife was discovered in a carry-on bag at Houston (HOU)
http://blog.tsa.gov/2016/10/tsa-week...14th-20th.html
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TSA Week in Review October 21st - 27th
Black Powder Matetrs!
http://blog.tsa.gov/2016/10/tsa-week...21st-27th.html
- 65 firearms discovered this week in carry-on bags
- A replica suicide vest was discovered at Richmond (RIC)
- A flask of black powder was discovered in a carry-on bag at Allentown (ABE) and a powder horn full of black powder was discovered in a checked bag at Boise (BOI)
- Two grenades were discovered this week-one at at Las Vegas (LAS) and Syracuse (SYR)
http://blog.tsa.gov/2016/10/tsa-week...21st-27th.html
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I can't help but look at these fabricated numbers and think about the truth behind them.
- 65 firearms and 'lifelike replicas', including a pop-tart eaten into an L-shape, three Harry Potter magic
wands, a Buzz Lightyear grip toy, a sock puppet's 2-inch replica gun, a bra with an embroidered
image of a musket, and a pack of NRA souvenir playing cards with lifelike pictures of historic guns and
a single black licorice lifesaver that is a lifelike replica of the business end of a handgun.
- a fishing vest that someone with a vivid imagination and bad eyesight could convince themselves
might be converted into a suicide vest. Or just using for fishing lures.
- a flask of black bath salts and a toy plastic powder horn filled with black licorice crystals
- two lifelike $65 clear glass bottles of Jimmy Choo perfume that a TSO really wanted for his chick,
er, that would look almost like a cartoon grenade if the light was bad, your eyesight was worse and
you painted the bottle and added a lifelike replica convincing grip.
- 65 firearms and 'lifelike replicas', including a pop-tart eaten into an L-shape, three Harry Potter magic
wands, a Buzz Lightyear grip toy, a sock puppet's 2-inch replica gun, a bra with an embroidered
image of a musket, and a pack of NRA souvenir playing cards with lifelike pictures of historic guns and
a single black licorice lifesaver that is a lifelike replica of the business end of a handgun.
- a fishing vest that someone with a vivid imagination and bad eyesight could convince themselves
might be converted into a suicide vest. Or just using for fishing lures.
- a flask of black bath salts and a toy plastic powder horn filled with black licorice crystals
- two lifelike $65 clear glass bottles of Jimmy Choo perfume that a TSO really wanted for his chick,
er, that would look almost like a cartoon grenade if the light was bad, your eyesight was worse and
you painted the bottle and added a lifelike replica convincing grip.
Last edited by chollie; Oct 29, 2016 at 7:45 pm