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MikeMpls Dec 2, 2010 12:31 pm


Originally Posted by WIRunner (Post 15363984)
So how does this prevent someone from driving up next to the bus to do damage?
Like detonating a bomb, as the guy in the video is concerned about.

TSA's aura will protect them.

Letitride3c Dec 2, 2010 2:39 pm


Originally Posted by MikeMpls (Post 15367888)
TSA's aura will protect them.

Same for a cyclist biking on 2 wheels and she/he won't even need a backpack full of CBRN device, just a fanny pack - to come up to a checkpoint full of waiting sheeps waiting to be searched by the smurfs - ready to blow up .... ? Shall we consider rules to start banning hydration bottles larger than 3.4 oz next :td:

N639DL Dec 2, 2010 2:58 pm


Originally Posted by N965VJ (Post 15361773)
I first heard about this nonsense last fall, but it's good to see this hit BoingBoing. Throw it right back to the "If you don't like the TSA, don't fly" crowd.

I did once say that, and ironic enough I was riding Greyhound on Sunday. This is just absurd, nobody should have to do that. What's next...you have to be examined by TSA before getting on the Mass Turnpike?

LuvAirFrance Dec 2, 2010 3:21 pm


Originally Posted by N639DL (Post 15369030)
I did once say that, and ironic enough I was riding Greyhound on Sunday. This is just absurd, nobody should have to do that. What's next...you have to be examined by TSA before getting on the Mass Turnpike?

Well naturally! Why don't you want to be "safe"?

JenP Dec 2, 2010 8:12 pm

That's why it's important that we all stand up NOW!!!!!

Put an end to it before it gets worse and it will. Seems to be few who R willing. I won't fly-fat chance on ever doing it till things really change. Still I call the airlines and businesses affected and write letters and pass the word and truth around.

SeniorCitizen Dec 2, 2010 8:49 pm

Germany, during WWII started taking away rights slowly from certain populations until they found their "final solution". Many Germans, and other countries heard "rumors" about it (inc. America) , but "now you don't really believe they would do something like that do you?" History repeats itself if you don't pay attention to it and learn.

tracon Dec 2, 2010 11:24 pm

I'm all for TSA showing up at greyhound, amtrak etc.
Helps put them on equal inconvenience with aviation.
Hopefully the security fee will be passed on to surface travellers as well.

For the record, in the interest of safety, the TSA should be disbanded.

Letitride3c Dec 2, 2010 11:31 pm


Originally Posted by tracon (Post 15371744)
Hopefully the security fee will be passed on to surface travellers as well. :rolleyes:

For the record, in the interest of safety, the TSA should be disbanded.

+1 on disbanding TSA, but until then, we need to offset our huge, huge federal deficit so if more smurfs are going to be running around in circles, EVERYONE should pay - impose a 9/11 Security fee and/or surcharge to fund those renegate & UnConstitutional operations ;) - especially now that Congress is only interested in tax cuts and continuing resolution before it adjourn until 2011 and POTUS is ready to fly "exempt" on AF One with his exclusive security details to take his Hawaii vacation. :mad:

Besides, tolls & fees are going up anyway, the average person won't "notice" it or complain .... (or, just create another poll to support it) :o

LuvAirFrance Dec 3, 2010 2:54 am

Hey something occurred to me. We have 3 million job openings, 14 million in need of jobs, and many of them collecting unemployment. We could create 11 million smurfs and post them everywhere. Think about it. Millions, absolute millions, are going ungroped. Why should people sit home when they could be out providing the groping that so many are missing! Brilliant!

Kiwi Flyer Dec 3, 2010 11:54 am


Originally Posted by ocschwar (Post 15361818)
So, let's see:

If you fly - gate rape.

If you take a train - gate rape.

If you take a bus - gate rape.

And if you drive, well, remember that driving is a privilege, not a right.

So there is no more right to travel in the US now.

Well, you could walk.

:mad:

beauvoir Dec 3, 2010 12:56 pm


Originally Posted by PaladinErrant (Post 15362782)
"I feel safe... uhh.... getting on a bus and knowing it's not gonna blow up."

We are a nation of retards.

Yeah, I thought that too. That guy from the video is right out of the movie Idiocracy.

chollie Dec 3, 2010 3:15 pm


Originally Posted by PaladinErrant (Post 15362782)
"I feel safe... uhh.... getting on a bus and knowing it's not gonna blow up."

If someone said something like that to me, I'd probably respond "do you think they checked the undercarriage and engine compartment for explosives'? :rolleyes:

Darkumbra Dec 3, 2010 3:22 pm


Originally Posted by chollie (Post 15376219)
If someone said something like that to me, I'd probably respond "do you think they checked the undercarriage and engine compartment for explosives'? :rolleyes:

AND there's a LARGE tank of gasoline underneath that bus!

Think of the children!!!


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