Originally Posted by Bart

I can't give you a good answer for a number of reasons, and most of that has to do with the nature of the judicial process. For example, I know TSOs who were notified that they were to testify in court for a drug-related incident; however, it never happened. Part of this could be because, for that particular case, there was a plea bargain agreement, or the case was dropped for other reasons, or it may be caught up in a series of delays. Or it could be as simple as the case being successfully prosecuted without the need for testimony by a TSO. Other factors are that the TSO is simply no longer employed with TSA (while not a high turnover rate, there is a steady turnover rate). Or while the incident may have been a good arrest, it may have never made it to court for a variety of reasons.

I don't know of any TSA-related court cases based solely on money being found inside a bag.


When I train Leads, I start off with a series of questions:

Q: How do you put an elephant inside a refrigerator?
A: Open the door, shove him in, and close the door.

Q: How do you put a giraffe inside a refrigerator? (They usually answer as above)
A: No, first ya gotta take the elephant out.

I ask a couple of other riddles, then I end it with:

The moral here is to read the prohibited items list....don't read into it!