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Maybe they were celebrating the new budget?

First was when I was in line at the D checkpoint. All of a sudden, the smurfs all engage in a cult-like chant (the only way to describe it.). The stop everything in the checkpoint. I thought about hitting the deck and playing along, but I decided to snap a few cell phone pictures instead.

Self-selected opt out was easy and I began the long trek to the gate.

I grabbed a coffee and bagel and looked back towards the D-25 checkpoint and saw another BRAVO in the corridor right behind the checkpoint. A cop on a Segway was allowed to proceed. She stops near me and a clerk wearing a spiffy pink TSA golf shirt comes over to the cop. She asks him what's going on. The clerk says that it's an exercise. I butt in and say, "It's one of those silly BRAVO exercises we joke about on Flyertalk.com." He gives me a cold stare and the cop just shakes her head. I expected retaliation, but he walked away for the BRAVO hotwash with a gaggle of other golf-shirted clerks.
I will post about the self-opt out technique after I get back home and will update TSAStatus.net.

So if the TSO's all start yelling "bravo", what would happen if pax started applauding and yelling "encore, encore"? ;-)

Just remember your favorite shoutout: Bravo Clear!

Blogdad Bob would point to it as an "Overwhelming positive response to TSA security exercises" in a new puppy post. :rolleyes:

:D


If I ever encounter a checkpoint that is doing a BRAVO exercise, I have no intention of playing along. I will continue to collect my belongings and walk to my gate.

Wouldnt that be seen as interfering with the screening process?

It would be funny though :)

Actually that would be removing an interference to the screening process.

I guess my mind is in the wrong place at the moment... My first thought as a response to a shout out of "Bravo" was to complete the thought and shout out:

"Sierra"


But, some times I just have those type of days.... ;)

How about replying to "CODE BRAVO!" with "CHARLIE FOXTROT?"

What screening process? If they stop screening and stand there forming a line, then they are not screening...

I can't recall where I was earlier this month, but witnessed a similar smurf kumbaya moment. Their antics and mutual admiration was sickening and laughable at the same time...I thought I was watching a Saturday Night Live parody.

Not possible. Saturday Night Live is occasionally amusing (nowhere near what they were during the Chase/Belushi/Akroyd/etc days, but they do have their moments.)

What the TSA does is useless drama, trying to keep people afraid of the boogeyman so none of the blue-shirted sloths have to try to find another job.

Witness the simple fact that the TSA has not only hired people with records, but has *re-hired* them after uncovering their background.

Or confuse them by yelling, "Code Bravo, code bravo."

So their mommies never taught them what happens when you cry "wolf" too many times? How long before nobody stops to stare anymore?

Cali

I would say that based on some of the comments I've seen on the Facebook and the YouTube regarding the hands-in-the-pants-of-a-6-y-o incident that people will gladly play a game of Simon Says for "security". :confused: