Top 10 list of TSA complaints
Nov 16, 2010, 8:10 pm
#121
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Chicago, IL
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Posts: 851
The lack of consistency from airport to airport drives me crazy and makes me nervous as well. How can I feel safe when no one can even decide what the rules really are? The whole thing is a bush league operation and needs to be reevaluated from the ground up (sorry for commenting on something so obvious).
Nov 16, 2010, 11:05 pm
#122
Join Date: Sep 2009
Posts: 5,051
How can they make anyone "safe" with spot application? How do they know they are hitting the right "spots"? Are they trying to make everybody crazy on the principle that if you make everybody crazy, you make conspirators crazy in the process?
Nov 21, 2010, 2:31 am
#123
Join Date: Nov 2010
Posts: 1
Wow, I live in Australia and all this talk of the 'scary' TSA isn't really putting me in the mood to holiday in the US. I mean, I'm know it's a land of friendly people on the inside but as I approach the TSA barrier with a positive attitude will I come out the other side bitter and hating all things American?
A big smile will probably help...
A big smile will probably help...
Nov 21, 2010, 1:37 pm
#124
Join Date: Nov 2010
Posts: 1
top 10 list of tsa complaints
We've been to a dozen different airports, and TSA at the Atlanta (Hartsfield-Jackson) airport where I live is by far the rudest. The airport's single security line can be slow. But there have been a few specific interactions with TSA that I can't complain about on the TSA website, because oddly, it says my "email is not recognized." Even though I see no place to register, and why should I have to anyway?
1. At one time I was mistakenly on some kind of list where I needed to be checked more intensely by TSA. Couldn't check in online, & was delayed on flights. Turned out my name was similar to the name of someone they were looking at, or suspecting, or something. After asking TSA what I should do about this, them having no idea, getting told by TSA to talk to the airline, getting told by the airline to talk to TSA, I finally figured out the procedure for getting off this list. TSA sent me a letter - not admitting the mistake, but merely saying "if we made a mistake, we fixed it."
The following irritations all occurred at Atlanta airport:
2. I brought an expensive fabric handbag with me & put it in the bin, carefully keeping it on top of our iPad, so that the bag wouldn't get soiled in the bin where everyone's shoes go. This was before they started telling people (sometimes) to separate their tablet computers. (WHY?) AFTER the bin went through the security scanner, the TSA woman asked me if the bin was mine, took my handbag out of the bin, and put it down into the bin after removing the iPad. I took the purse immediately out. She grabbed it away from me, gave me a hateful look and barked some stupid order like "Ma'am you need to..." and put it right back in that nasty bin. AFTER security check!! Why?
3. My boyfriend bought me a crystal vase in Tuscany. We went later to Paris. Paris TSA took the crystal out of the box since they couldn't see through the crystal on the scan, & accidentally bumped it on her cubby wall. She then apologized profusely. The vase wasn't damaged. When we came back to Atlanta, my boyfriend politely asked the Atlanta TSA woman to please be careful with the item, as it was fragile & had been bumped in another airport. She glared at him and then barked, "I'm not a child." She took the vase over to another area, where another TSA woman called to her from another cubby, saying sarcastically to her "Ma'am, excuse me ma'am, please make sure you don't break that, it's fragile" - to which they both laughed.
I'll stop at that - I have several more examples of why the TSA should just go away & let us fend for ourselves, with automated scanners and checkpoints and pat-down machines. Whatever it takes just to not have to deal with these foul, disrespectful people, I'll do it. They're not even nice about it, abusing their "authority" to enforce stupid rules like 3 ounces of liquid. I've even had semi-liquid taken from me. Pudding. In sealed little right-from-the-store cups. and the baggies? why the 1 quart baggies? Why take off the shoes AND go through the scanner or walk-through? Europe doesn't make travelers take off their shoes & boots. Why the inconsistency? Why risk losing my ID & boarding pass by making me take it out of my pocket? What is the public risk to keeping my driver's license & a piece of paper in my pocket?
I want the TSA to be replaced by machines ASAP. It would probably be more secure that way anyway, without all the lip & nastiness & complete unconcern for people's things.
1. At one time I was mistakenly on some kind of list where I needed to be checked more intensely by TSA. Couldn't check in online, & was delayed on flights. Turned out my name was similar to the name of someone they were looking at, or suspecting, or something. After asking TSA what I should do about this, them having no idea, getting told by TSA to talk to the airline, getting told by the airline to talk to TSA, I finally figured out the procedure for getting off this list. TSA sent me a letter - not admitting the mistake, but merely saying "if we made a mistake, we fixed it."
The following irritations all occurred at Atlanta airport:
2. I brought an expensive fabric handbag with me & put it in the bin, carefully keeping it on top of our iPad, so that the bag wouldn't get soiled in the bin where everyone's shoes go. This was before they started telling people (sometimes) to separate their tablet computers. (WHY?) AFTER the bin went through the security scanner, the TSA woman asked me if the bin was mine, took my handbag out of the bin, and put it down into the bin after removing the iPad. I took the purse immediately out. She grabbed it away from me, gave me a hateful look and barked some stupid order like "Ma'am you need to..." and put it right back in that nasty bin. AFTER security check!! Why?
3. My boyfriend bought me a crystal vase in Tuscany. We went later to Paris. Paris TSA took the crystal out of the box since they couldn't see through the crystal on the scan, & accidentally bumped it on her cubby wall. She then apologized profusely. The vase wasn't damaged. When we came back to Atlanta, my boyfriend politely asked the Atlanta TSA woman to please be careful with the item, as it was fragile & had been bumped in another airport. She glared at him and then barked, "I'm not a child." She took the vase over to another area, where another TSA woman called to her from another cubby, saying sarcastically to her "Ma'am, excuse me ma'am, please make sure you don't break that, it's fragile" - to which they both laughed.
I'll stop at that - I have several more examples of why the TSA should just go away & let us fend for ourselves, with automated scanners and checkpoints and pat-down machines. Whatever it takes just to not have to deal with these foul, disrespectful people, I'll do it. They're not even nice about it, abusing their "authority" to enforce stupid rules like 3 ounces of liquid. I've even had semi-liquid taken from me. Pudding. In sealed little right-from-the-store cups. and the baggies? why the 1 quart baggies? Why take off the shoes AND go through the scanner or walk-through? Europe doesn't make travelers take off their shoes & boots. Why the inconsistency? Why risk losing my ID & boarding pass by making me take it out of my pocket? What is the public risk to keeping my driver's license & a piece of paper in my pocket?
I want the TSA to be replaced by machines ASAP. It would probably be more secure that way anyway, without all the lip & nastiness & complete unconcern for people's things.
Dec 12, 2010, 4:01 am
#125
Join Date: Nov 2010
Posts: 1
Do some research of your own. Google Kurt Haskell Underwear Bomber
Are you kidding?! Nothing is done without a just reason behind it. The shoes are because of a good reason, google shoe bomber and while your at it google london airport liquids scare. I believe these annoyances to be necessary. The barking is uncalled for but ex military are a little set in some ways. WATCH THE NEWS, DO A LITTLE RESEARCH AND LEARN SOMETHING FOR GODS SAKE.
The TSA/Government is using the Underwear Bomber as an excuse to force us to choose between a virtual strip search or a full body search including placing their hands directly on our genitals, right?
Well, maybe we should know a little bit more about the Underwear Bomber episode then, does that make sense?
Eyewitnesses aboard Flight 253 from Amsterdam including KURT HASKELL report that the Underwear Bomber was "escorted" through the security process by a "Handler" aka Covert Operative, and that the U/B did not even HAVE A PASSPORT! HOW DOES SOMEONE GET ON AN INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT TO THE US WITHOUT A PASSPORT?
Furthermore, eyewitnesses also state that the U/B was completely expressionless the entire flight as if he was in a trance or drugged and that some other passenger videotaped the U/B the entire flight. And that even after the U/B gave himself 3rd degree burns on his legs and crotch he was still completely expressionless.
Ask yourself, why hasn't the media bothered to tell you the whole story about this all of this?