Miami Skycaps help smuggle extra bags aboard

Old Nov 18, 2010, 10:18 am
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Miami Skycaps help smuggle extra bags aboard

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_spoint...tional-airport

Skycaps at MIA can waive fees for wheelchairs, strollers and bags belonging to military personnel. But to make extra money, the suspects allegedly used those exceptions to check in unreported bags or boxes and pocketed the cash instead of giving it to the airline. In some cases, unaccompanied bags were shipped to Latin America, in apparent violation of federal transportation regulations for international flights.
Who needs to hide something in a body cavity as long as you have an extra $20 on you?
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Old Nov 18, 2010, 10:39 am
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Yep, the continuing violations of BASIC airport security (like rooting outright criminals out of the STAFF) which are allowed to persist and even proliferate under TSA and Homeland Security make a mockery of the pretext of "preventing terrorism" used to justify passenger abuse.
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Old Nov 18, 2010, 10:57 am
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Next thing is they'll have to undergo background checks to work at the airport...

wait.....
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Old Nov 18, 2010, 11:35 am
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Yes, that's why it was too many problems who carrying the bags into the aircraft without baggage tags. The customers who does not have the money to pay the bags fees. Thats is wrong! They should do yourselves to checked the bags go through TSA inline baggage screening system.
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