Originally Posted by
goalie
first off, and i'll try and keep it simply so not to have this thread head off to omni but, "it ain't just farsi"...it could be french, spanish russian, german, chinese, japanese, swiss, swedish and also good old fashioned plain american english (remember timothy mcveigh...he was red white and blue but 14 years ago today, he was a terrorist none the less)
as to "unpredictable screening being unpredictable to the public", yes i do agree with that but in VideoPaul's case, he saw the schedule as it was left out in "plane" sight" so the unpredictability pooch is thus screwed
This was the most amazing part of it--this form was left our where anyone over five feet in stature could easily see at least the top half of it (I couldn't read past halfway down clearly) including someone whose intent was more than to point out the farcical waste of money that is the TSA. Where was this screener trained? What's lext, leaving the SOP book out for us to leaf through it? How about a SPOT training manual on the wall at the secondary moat?
You don't professionalize until you federalize!
And TSO Ron's comment about "keep the complaint calls coming, we love them!" seems to indicate that the TSA takes complaint calls about as seriously as they do actual security threats. But, they are keeping us safe from water that was bought at less than 400% markup rates outside the sterile area, thats for sure!
Remember, these "professional, federal" screeners are the BEST there is! They are HIGHLY trained in security (except, of course, at keeping procedural paperork out of eyeshot of the broadcast media) and are not loosed on the unsuspecting traveling public until they are READY to do their jobs! Which, apparently, includes leaving stuff out that probably should not be public knowledge.
Now, anyone want to guess which highly effective checkpoint this was at? I'm quite certain the TSA doesn't care.
--PP