Originally Posted by
goalie
you are correct that it is the business of the federal gov't where currency goes-and especially when it comes to going into and/or out of the u.s. and there are laws to enforce just that but...
you are 100% incorrect when it comes to reporting any amount of currency to anyone as it is the job of cbp to enforce that law and not that of the tsa. the tsa has absolutely no authority to do what you described. period and end of story.
So, to take your analogy a bit further, if a citizen see’s someone tossing a flaming object into a trash can then he has no authority to detain the individual, because he is not a fireman or a police officer? Or lets say an Air Traffic Controller see’s someone who may be steeling something in a shop at the airport. He cannot contact law enforcement because he has no authority to do so?
Sorry, your logic fails pretty quickly.
Originally Posted by
goalie
btw, there is no such thing as "a large brick" of $100's. it is either a brick or it is not....
strap =100 bills
brick = 10 straps
and you can take al of the above to the fed and have them tell me that i am wrong and that the myriad of certifications i have rec'd from them are now null and void
As a TSO the actual terminology concerning the packaging of currency is not within the prevue of the job. Nor would I actually care about it to be honest.
But here is an observation for you, take it or leave it. When I correct someone’s inaccurate representation of a situation or an intentional misstatement about equipment or procedure (or about anything pretty much), the in’juns rally round and sharpen their scalping knives. Even if I am 100% correct in my response. Yet when someone corrects me about something I admittedly know little about I accept the criticism and move on. Can you explain to me and the others who read here why that may be? [sarcasm]Certainly not because anyone around here has an unreasonable prejudice against TSO’s like myself who don’t kowtow to the party line around here, right? Please, tell me that aint so![/sarcasm]