Originally Posted by
InkUnderNails
1st line and demonstrably wrong, but I kept reading anyway. The article is quite enlightening telling us things we already know, but seeing it in a major paper is interesting. Good writing, too. It is almost humor.
For example,
Originally Posted by head of an aviation-security consulting firm
Laird said "99.9999" percent of what is surrendered at airports is not from terrorists "but from people who forgot what was in their luggage" and likely doesn’t say much about discouraging terrorists.
No duh.
Not only that, Doug (do you mind if I call you Doug?), TSA doesn't count the guns and knives and water bottles and snowglobes that they
missed. You know, the ones that actually got onto a plane and were subsequently used to
wreak havoc and destruction across the continent do absolutely nothing bad at all. And at the last estimate, TSA was missing 70% or more of "banned" items, so counting the minority of items they find is not all that informative.
Not to mention that TSA takes a rather, ... errm, post-modern approach to things like numbers, mathematics and record-keeping.
and there's this gem.
Originally Posted by TSA spokeswoman
Ultimately, passenger checkpoints are just one of many layers of TSA security, said Dankers.
I knew that was coming.
At least we know that "sharp items" doesn't include any of their spokespeople.