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Bouquet, spelled B-U-C-K-E-T....
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Originally Posted by asnovici
(Post 18315216)
The game is alive and well at SFO. Going through T3 "security" they asked for my name and I refused. She told me I won't fly today if I dont say my name. I said its Joe Smith spelled a-s-n-o-v-i-c-i, her response was thats not what she sees on the boarding pass. I said thats how I pronounce it. She called a supervisor, who was extremely polite but wouldn't budge. She offered a complaint form and filled it out herself with her badge number, name and location. At the end I had to pronounce my name otherwise I wouldn't fly. Im not going to send the complaint form because I don't feel anyone reads them or cares. Disgusting unamerican fashist organization.
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I admit, I hope to see this one rolled out at one of my frequent airports. I'll pronounce my name a little bit differently each time, and see just how far I can push it. :D
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Consistent at AUS for the past six months or so.
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Originally Posted by miltonguy
(Post 18315673)
If you dont like America, get out! They're just trying to keep us safe. IT's done so terrorists cannot steal someone else's boarding pass, because we all know how difficult it is for terrorists to actually read the name written on their boarding card. It's a fail-safe method of keeping us safe, right up there with getting us to take our shoes off and hand-writing "OK" on the boarding card after checking documents.
So how on would a TSA know that it is my name and not a terrorist? So far no american has said my name in the way I was given that name at birth. |
Originally Posted by T.J. Bender
(Post 18316414)
I admit, I hope to see this one rolled out at one of my frequent airports. I'll pronounce my name a little bit differently each time, and see just how far I can push it. :D
"Have a nice day" was her response. |
Lovely...........the TSA has got to be the laughing stock of airport security worldwide.
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Originally Posted by miltonguy
(Post 18315673)
If you dont like America, get out! They're just trying to keep us safe. IT's done so terrorists cannot steal someone else's boarding pass, because we all know how difficult it is for terrorists to actually read the name written on their boarding card. It's a fail-safe method of keeping us safe, right up there with getting us to take our shoes off and hand-writing "OK" on the boarding card after checking documents.
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They did the stupid game at SFO a couple of weeks ago. At least they took my NEXUS card without argument.
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I think I might have to start responding "Art Vandelay" when the TSO asks for my name. Five bucks to the first TSO who gets the joke.
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Originally Posted by T.J. Bender
(Post 18323981)
I think I might have to start responding "Art Vandelay" when the TSO asks for my name. Five bucks to the first TSO who gets the joke.
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Interestingly enough, there is a sliver of truth in much of what happens. ;)
During World War II in the Pacific Theater, when a person suspected of being Japanese was captured or suspected of espionage and posing as Chinese, they would ask them questions to question their familiarity with Americna life, such as baseball treams, etc. One question they asked was to ask the suspect to read the name of a movie actress of the time, Sally Blane (married to director Normal Foster, sister of Loretta Young and Polly Ann). We knew them, and they told us the story in the early 1950s. Pronouncing "SALLY BLANE" got you a better score; "SARRY BRAIN" got you considerably more scrutinizing. Yep, stereotyping and also profiling, but on rare occasion it's part of a puzzle. As to TSA using this, for the vast majority of people it's a total and idiotic no go. "State your name": "I. Juana Glenlivet"...
Originally Posted by miltonguy
(Post 18315673)
If you dont like America, get out! They're just trying to keep us safe. IT's done so terrorists cannot steal someone else's boarding pass, because we all know how difficult it is for terrorists to actually read the name written on their boarding card. It's a fail-safe method of keeping us safe, right up there with getting us to take our shoes off and hand-writing "OK" on the boarding card after checking documents.
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Recently I was asked to say my name by a TSA employee at LGA, in the DL terminal (not the Marine one or the one that DL is expanding into with US).
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Yeah, I got it at IAH a couple of weeks ago and was really surprised.
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Originally Posted by MSPeconomist
(Post 18341322)
Recently I was asked to say my name by a TSA employee at LGA, in the DL terminal (not the Marine one or the one that DL is expanding into with US).
Pointed to my boarding pass. He asked again. Gave him something that hardly resembles my name. I passed. |
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