Originally Posted by
FWAAA
The OP implores us to "Just stop and think for one second" and discusses the jetBlue terminal clearance due to the fake grenade.
I have no issues with the TSA stopping fake grenades. I do think that if anyone at the TSA were to
Just stop and think for one second, they might have concluded that emptying the entire terminal was not warranted. Emptying the entire terminal and re-screening everyone was a tremendous waste of time and money.
There's simply no reason that a grenade (even if real) at a checkpoint (don't know if it was carryon or checked bag) calls for emptying the entire terminal. If it blew up it simply wouldn't harm anyone more than x feet away. If anything, it places the passengers at greater risk of a secondary attack at the curb. Everyone who has studied terrorist behaviour know this. Anyone for whom "risk management" is a familar term know this.
So clear a safe perimeter. But emptying an entire airport terminal? All you've done is tell the terrorists that they can make everyone dance and spend $$$ by showing up at the airport with fake grenades in checked bags. Sorta the dimbulb nonsense of taking every phoned-in bomb threat seriously, like it was the real thing. Terrorists in the USA don't phone in bomb threats. When idiots are in charge of security, we don't get security.
OP: Just stop and think for one second, please.
Ok, this is getting out of hand as I should have known it would; this will be my last reply on this subject. FWAAA, you state that if the Grenade went off it wouldn't hurt anyone more then x feet away. What to you is x; an m67 Fragmentation Grenade has a casualty radius of about 15 meters; 90 feet is a large radius, and that’s not to say the metal won't fly further than that. So, as in my first post; you need to Think for one second. "Correction on the 90 feet radius statement; what I meant to say is 90 feet end to end"
When a dam Grenade goes off and kills someone that was behind the 90 foot mark the TSA decided to use so they would not inconvenience anyone, you would be in an up roar that they didn't do more to protect people. And god help it if it was someone you know.
They did the right thing and that's all there is to it.
The other stuff you are arguing is worth it; this is ridiculous! My god, people had to go through security again instead of possibly getting their dam head blown off.
And people that bring fake Grenades to the airport should be held accountable for that for now on. How STUPID CAN PEOPLE BE!
Semper Fi,
Bob