Originally Posted by
cbn42
Is there any actual evidence that this has happened in even one case, or is it just speculation?
Do I know of any by name? No. But. Dozens or hundreds of TSOs have been arrested for taking stuff at checkpoints and out of checked bags. Fact: there are a lot of folks working for TSA who steal.
If a TSO takes stuff at the airport, there is the risk of getting caught on the way out with the loot. TSOs don’t normally bring their laptops to work, why would one be carrying two leaving work on the shuttle bus to the employee parking lot?
Taking a street address home in your head is a lot safer. Passing it to friends as a good house to target is a lot safer. Yes there may be a house sitter, but there may not be and if so the robbery may not be discovered and reported for days. Unless the burglars are caught and tell on their TSA insider, there is no connection and it never makes the newspaper that a TSO was involved.
Just another “Person on vacation has house broken into while gone.” Another risk that is avoidable by the simple method of using an ID that does not contain a home address.
TSOs consider
every passenger who presents himself at the checkpoint to be a "murdering hijacking terrorist until proven otherwise." I see nothing wrong with having the same attitude toward the TSA clerks. I assume they are ALL thiefs until proven otherwise.