The TSA decided to evacuate before identifying the owner of the bag. The TSA did not bother to run additional checks of any kind until the evacuation was in progress. As usual, the TSA overreacted in a knee-jerk fashion. The only solution the morons in charge of your agency ever come up with when there is a scenario like this is evacuate first, think later.
It's exactly stupid decisions like this one that will cause hundreds to be killed when someone uses a real device on all the helpless evacuees that the TSA shunts out to the parking lot because they don't bother to check things out and think before hitting the well-worn panic button!
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by The Unknown Screener:
Why would you say that? He brought a device into the airport that is designed to set off the machines (test module), he was not there to test the PBI people, and he did not tell them beforehand what he had in his bag. That is a REQUIREMENT to prevent just what happened. He was on his way to LGA to test their people. This entire incident was caused by one secret service agent who did not follow the correct procedures for handling test modules. He should be fired for causing the problem.
Of course you tazi, with your blinders on will only see the TSA as being at fault and blah, blah, blah.</font>
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