Amazing?

It should be a concern that stories about the screening of people at an airport checkpoint that I would have thought far-fetched or downright impossible a few years ago now seem believable.

All people lie, the problem is that 3 years ago I would have found the vets story completely unreasonable and now in light of TSA policies and complaints I find it plausible.

You should have bigger issues about why such stories have become more plausible than any of us would have believed ten years ago.

Look at your co-workers if you're wondering why.

Agreed, the TSA has provided anyone who travel and takes in what goes on around them with enough first and second (by first person observation) abuses, personal invasions, over stepping, power trips, etc that things that would have been unbelievably unacceptable yesterday, have become the norm thanks to TSA pushing the envelope continually downward.

They have been caught in enough lies, evasions, conveniently lost tapes, enough TSOs have been not only charged/arrested but found guilty and enough abuses have occurred that yes, the 'people' are far more believable than the TSA will ever be.

Like how Secretary DHS and TSA Administrator lied by saying how NIST had "Affirmed the Safety" of WBI'ers when if fact they did not?

The real question is whether he was forced to remove his Mickey Ears.:p

Expound on this.. inquiring minds want to know..

So when would the bag been dumped in? and what happened after inspection?

That is correct, and some people will use that to exploit their agenda.

Oh, please, that was a stupid thing to say. People do get busy in their lives. Or do you see monsters in every shadow?

Exploit all you want, it is BELIEVABLE in its entirety, so let's see the tapes that show these people walked out of the room empty handed, and returned the same way.

And what in the world does that have to do with whether or not a particular passenger is telling the truth about their screening experience? You already know the answer: nothing. Yet you also know what I am saying is possibly true, which is why you didn't actually address it.

:rolleyes:

No, I only have a few on my ignore list. And they deserve to be there. They offer nothing constructive. I do expect some anger, but when all you have to say are nasty comments - or you simply ignore what others have already said, there is no point in conversing.

You, BD, can take the easy way out and say I am avoiding engaging in conversation, but then you know thats not true. You very well know I engage in conversation. I have done so with your for closing in on 2 years. To say that I do not engage is simply you lying.

SATTSO, I certainly do not believe every 'anti-TSA' story out there. I originally posted the link after I took the time to research this person, and checked several of his past posts and even his Facebook page.

For many years I posted on that site in a rather neutral or even pro-TSA fashion. I tended to believe that most reports there were overly dramatic, or embellished, and I still suspect that many are. (That site tends to have a high level of tension and drama sometimes, and a lot of very misinformed travellers who simply don't want to hear the facts or the truth)

I have not posted or even read there for a few years, but did go over recently to see what that type of traveller was thinking. That is how I found that post.

I tend to believe him more than other similar posts on similar websites. Why? He didn't go to the media first. He hasn't been back to respond. He didn't post anything on his Facebook page even though he has over 800 friends. Instead he chose to post it as a warning on a somewhat obscure travel forum where it wouldn't generally get much if any attention from the media or frequent travellers. He has posted travel information in past in a reasoned fashion. Here is a post from him about a past negative experience, and again he doesn't seem very dramatic about it:

http://www.disboards.com/showthread....2600740&page=4

I also tend to believe him more than disbelieve him because until my unfortunate string of 18 months of a lot more bad luck than good (which began at your own airport), I too didn't have much negative to say about TSA. But my personal experiences have caused me to change my opinion. Reading what several TSOs were posting here also influenced my opinion and changed it from neutral or positive to mostly negative.

I believe that I am still reasonable and balanced in how I post, and still consider such stories carefully before assuming that everything stated is true. But in this case I tend to believe that what he wrote is what he believes happened to him at MCO yesterday.

You're quite fond of the use of the word "lying", aren't you?