Originally Posted by
oneofthosepeopleyouloveto hate
Oh, I understand why readers in this forum reacted so negatively! TSA-bashing is practically the national sport around here, and in that regard, I (somewhat unwittingly) gave them an opening big enough to drive a truck through!
However, I still maintain that it was a harmless prank, and the outrage engendered by it has been WAYYYYY out of proportion to the seriousness of the offense.
You can be assured I'll choose my words more judiciously in the future, though. You won't get another glimpse of what goes on behind the scenes from me!
Don't you feel better now?
IT'S NOT A HARMLESS PRANK!!!!!!! It's a firing offense in the private sector. Let's see how long somebody at Disney Security survives after he/she's caught taking things out of people's bags and playing with them. I'll tell you-they likely won't make it through the end of their shift before getting ....-canned. Like I said, the fact that it came out of the luggage in the first place makes it something close to, I don't know, THEFT. And if anything was damaged while you were playing Rugby with it in the baggage screening room, it would be considered VANDALISM. If you're that curious, open it up, look at it, and put it back. Taking it out and playing rugby with it in the screening room is TOTALLY inappropriate and WAY out of line. And since you have so much time to .... around, maybe TSA is overstaffed and we can downsize it by about 30%. 3 in 10 employees get fired.
This confirms over and over again that I'm making the right decision in regards to traveling carry-on only. It also confirms over and over again that the TSA-"bashing" (which is not bashing) is completely warranted and we FTers actually aren't hard enough on TSA.