Originally Posted by
RatherBeOnATrain
The article concludes with this sentence: "Daman is facing a charge of knowingly giving a false impression."
When did it become TSA's job to catch people who give a false impression?
(In other TS/S threads, TSOs have stated that TSA's only job is to keep prohibited items off of planes.)
The woman stated it was her intent to test the system. Guess what? She found out her answer.
She (allegedly, legally speaking) made a jar of opaque material. Screeners have been saying for a very long time, long before you created your FT login, that opaque will always set off the attention of x-ray operators and CTX machines. Not only that, this woman was stupid enough to (allegedly) attach a cell phone (trigger device) to that container in order to see if it would be caught.
What this woman, aptly described earlier as a moron, at best, yelled "fire" in a crowded theater.
Are you seriously saying that what she did was not stupid nor should go unpunished?
Can you say honestly with a straight face that someone from another country with no fixed U.S. address and a stated desire to test airport security is someone that should be given a pat on the back and let go?
Originally Posted by
TsaAbuseWatch
Yes.
They did an excellent job of stopping toothpaste, tape and a phone from being admitted on an aircraft.
Kudos TSA!
All that crotch rubbing of children has paid off!
Take this piece of advice from someone who loathes stupid TSA procedures just as much as you do: take a deep breath and think objectively for a moment.
Originally Posted by
FlyingHoustonian
That woman is a moron.
Exactly.