Multiple BRAVOs at MIA This AM!
Apr 9, 2011, 8:50 am
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Maybe they were celebrating the new budget?
First was when I was in line at the D checkpoint. All of a sudden, the smurfs all engage in a cult-like chant (the only way to describe it.). The stop everything in the checkpoint. I thought about hitting the deck and playing along, but I decided to snap a few cell phone pictures instead.
Self-selected opt out was easy and I began the long trek to the gate.
I grabbed a coffee and bagel and looked back towards the D-25 checkpoint and saw another BRAVO in the corridor right behind the checkpoint. A cop on a Segway was allowed to proceed. She stops near me and a clerk wearing a spiffy pink TSA golf shirt comes over to the cop. She asks him what's going on. The clerk says that it's an exercise. I butt in and say, "It's one of those silly BRAVO exercises we joke about on Flyertalk.com." He gives me a cold stare and the cop just shakes her head. I expected retaliation, but he walked away for the BRAVO hotwash with a gaggle of other golf-shirted clerks.
I will post about the self-opt out technique after I get back home and will update TSAStatus.net.
Maybe they were celebrating the new budget?
First was when I was in line at the D checkpoint. All of a sudden, the smurfs all engage in a cult-like chant (the only way to describe it.). The stop everything in the checkpoint. I thought about hitting the deck and playing along, but I decided to snap a few cell phone pictures instead.
Self-selected opt out was easy and I began the long trek to the gate.
I grabbed a coffee and bagel and looked back towards the D-25 checkpoint and saw another BRAVO in the corridor right behind the checkpoint. A cop on a Segway was allowed to proceed. She stops near me and a clerk wearing a spiffy pink TSA golf shirt comes over to the cop. She asks him what's going on. The clerk says that it's an exercise. I butt in and say, "It's one of those silly BRAVO exercises we joke about on Flyertalk.com." He gives me a cold stare and the cop just shakes her head. I expected retaliation, but he walked away for the BRAVO hotwash with a gaggle of other golf-shirted clerks.
I will post about the self-opt out technique after I get back home and will update TSAStatus.net.
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Apr 9, 2011, 10:05 am
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So if the TSO's all start yelling "bravo", what would happen if pax started applauding and yelling "encore, encore"? ;-)
Apr 9, 2011, 11:34 am
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Apr 9, 2011, 1:47 pm
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If I ever encounter a checkpoint that is doing a BRAVO exercise, I have no intention of playing along. I will continue to collect my belongings and walk to my gate.
Apr 9, 2011, 6:48 pm
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Apr 9, 2011, 7:20 pm
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Apr 15, 2011, 9:27 am
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I can't recall where I was earlier this month, but witnessed a similar smurf kumbaya moment. Their antics and mutual admiration was sickening and laughable at the same time...I thought I was watching a Saturday Night Live parody.
Apr 15, 2011, 9:40 am
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Not possible. Saturday Night Live is occasionally amusing (nowhere near what they were during the Chase/Belushi/Akroyd/etc days, but they do have their moments.)
What the TSA does is useless drama, trying to keep people afraid of the boogeyman so none of the blue-shirted sloths have to try to find another job.
Witness the simple fact that the TSA has not only hired people with records, but has *re-hired* them after uncovering their background.
What the TSA does is useless drama, trying to keep people afraid of the boogeyman so none of the blue-shirted sloths have to try to find another job.
Witness the simple fact that the TSA has not only hired people with records, but has *re-hired* them after uncovering their background.
Apr 15, 2011, 10:26 am
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