Coins are a sharp instrument
Apr 26, 2012 | 8:42 am
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Apr 26, 2012 | 10:28 am
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Incompetent Morons!
The sad truth is that most TSA agents are incompetent boobs. Most of us who own businesses would never hire one of these people to sweep our floors, let alone, do something important or difficult.
Reasoning with these bozos is impossible, so it is always best to kowtow to them, and then, move happily along, because that is what seems to appease them the most.
I once had a carry-on bag with thousands of coins in it, primarily 100, 50 and 10 Yen, and it weighed about 30 kg and they didn't even bother to look inside, and yet some small-minded bozo hassled OP's father over some change???
Recently, the government forced Youtube to take down a video showing how to smuggle weapons through the scanners undetected, not because they are concerned about our safety, but because they were embarrassed!! Where a metal detector finds most metal weapons, a scanner can quite easily be defeated, so what fool among us actually thinks that we are safer with body scanners?
Reasoning with these bozos is impossible, so it is always best to kowtow to them, and then, move happily along, because that is what seems to appease them the most.
I once had a carry-on bag with thousands of coins in it, primarily 100, 50 and 10 Yen, and it weighed about 30 kg and they didn't even bother to look inside, and yet some small-minded bozo hassled OP's father over some change???
Recently, the government forced Youtube to take down a video showing how to smuggle weapons through the scanners undetected, not because they are concerned about our safety, but because they were embarrassed!! Where a metal detector finds most metal weapons, a scanner can quite easily be defeated, so what fool among us actually thinks that we are safer with body scanners?
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Apr 26, 2012 | 1:45 pm
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First, a mass of coins in a sock is a dangerous weapon, in the right hands.
Second, I was once in line behind a woman with a huge purse. Of course they stopped the after xray line right on the rollers to resolve her purse while my stuff was still in the machine. It was a pain, but I got a good show. By the time she had emptied her purse of coins that had been dropped in over time and settled to the bottom, she had filled one of those almost white plastic bowls nearly level full with coins. Now what? Of course they run the purse back through without the coins, but everything had already been dumped out and there was nothing there except what one might expect to find in a purse. So empty purse and loose stuff in gray bin was run back through. Sort of makes sense as there could be something in the lining of the purse.
What got me was they ran the bowl of coins through as well. What did they expect to see?????
Second, I was once in line behind a woman with a huge purse. Of course they stopped the after xray line right on the rollers to resolve her purse while my stuff was still in the machine. It was a pain, but I got a good show. By the time she had emptied her purse of coins that had been dropped in over time and settled to the bottom, she had filled one of those almost white plastic bowls nearly level full with coins. Now what? Of course they run the purse back through without the coins, but everything had already been dumped out and there was nothing there except what one might expect to find in a purse. So empty purse and loose stuff in gray bin was run back through. Sort of makes sense as there could be something in the lining of the purse.
What got me was they ran the bowl of coins through as well. What did they expect to see?????
Now if it had been this version, I'd be even more worried
Apr 26, 2012 | 5:40 pm
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Apr 26, 2012 | 7:39 pm
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Apr 27, 2012 | 8:26 am
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First, a mass of coins in a sock is a dangerous weapon, in the right hands.
Second, I was once in line behind a woman with a huge purse. Of course they stopped the after xray line right on the rollers to resolve her purse while my stuff was still in the machine. It was a pain, but I got a good show. By the time she had emptied her purse of coins that had been dropped in over time and settled to the bottom, she had filled one of those almost white plastic bowls nearly level full with coins. Now what? Of course they run the purse back through without the coins, but everything had already been dumped out and there was nothing there except what one might expect to find in a purse. So empty purse and loose stuff in gray bin was run back through. Sort of makes sense as there could be something in the lining of the purse.
What got me was they ran the bowl of coins through as well. What did they expect to see?????
Second, I was once in line behind a woman with a huge purse. Of course they stopped the after xray line right on the rollers to resolve her purse while my stuff was still in the machine. It was a pain, but I got a good show. By the time she had emptied her purse of coins that had been dropped in over time and settled to the bottom, she had filled one of those almost white plastic bowls nearly level full with coins. Now what? Of course they run the purse back through without the coins, but everything had already been dumped out and there was nothing there except what one might expect to find in a purse. So empty purse and loose stuff in gray bin was run back through. Sort of makes sense as there could be something in the lining of the purse.
What got me was they ran the bowl of coins through as well. What did they expect to see?????
a bar of soap in a sock, of coarse it's in there to keep the soap off of everything else
Apr 30, 2012 | 2:21 pm
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I got crap from the TSA at LAX for having too many coins in the front pocket of my computer/briefcase shoulder bag. It was not so easily resolved - things had to come out of the bag, the bag was ETD checked, and there were questions about the foreign coins in there (Euro, UKP, and maybe some Forints.
Mike