ID checker asking questions - name, destination etc.
Jul 6, 2011, 8:51 am
#136
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Jul 6, 2011, 10:07 am
#137
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Add 'no Facebook page' to my list of suspicious behaviours. Don't smile at random strangers, don't make idle chit chat with strangers, don't have a Facebook page.
That makes me
a somewhat typical German.
Jul 6, 2011, 11:02 am
#138
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I have never met what I would call a typical German. Most I have met I would call uniquely German.
Jul 6, 2011, 11:06 am
#139
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There is some idiot at LAX doing this all the time. He pretends to be cheerful, but is clearly trying to play SPOT.
Before I saw the end part, I was going to make that joke for you
Jul 6, 2011, 11:24 am
#140
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TSO's at SFO T3 yesterday were asking passengers either "What's your first name?" or "What's your last name?" Must be because of the guy who flew with someone else's ID.
I debated giving them a hard time, but then decided I didn't really care. So I said, "It's Tuesday, so my name must be Dave". He didn't smile, but he did wish me a happy birthday-in-three-days.
Perhaps I'm getting weak in my old age: I also willingly went through the nudie booth (it was one of the millimeter wave ones).
I debated giving them a hard time, but then decided I didn't really care. So I said, "It's Tuesday, so my name must be Dave". He didn't smile, but he did wish me a happy birthday-in-three-days.
Perhaps I'm getting weak in my old age: I also willingly went through the nudie booth (it was one of the millimeter wave ones).
Jul 6, 2011, 3:15 pm
#142
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I have forwarded this thread, with castrobenes' threats highlighted, to the DHS IG, and suggest others do likewise. His and other self-asserted TSO's comments that are, at a minimum, outside the TSA policy for social media and may rise to threats made under color of authority should not be let slide.
Whether the IG will do their job is anybody's guess.
Whether the IG will do their job is anybody's guess.
I had really hoped that Castobenes would have come back and made right his statements of retaliation and abuse of his TSA position. Guess I was expecting to much from our TSA types.
Jul 6, 2011, 3:27 pm
#143
Join Date: Oct 2010
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I do have a really, really bad stutter. Not all the time. Just some times. Stress makes it worse.
If I run into Castrobenes, I likely won't be able to say anything at all. And that means I must require additional screening!
If I run into Castrobenes, I likely won't be able to say anything at all. And that means I must require additional screening!
Jul 6, 2011, 3:41 pm
#144
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Originally Posted by MaximumSisu
I have forwarded this thread, with castrobenes' threats highlighted, to the DHS IG, and suggest others do likewise. His and other self-asserted TSO's comments that are, at a minimum, outside the TSA policy for social media and may rise to threats made under color of authority should not be let slide.
Whether the IG will do their job is anybody's guess.
I have forwarded this thread, with castrobenes' threats highlighted, to the DHS IG, and suggest others do likewise. His and other self-asserted TSO's comments that are, at a minimum, outside the TSA policy for social media and may rise to threats made under color of authority should not be let slide.
Whether the IG will do their job is anybody's guess.
I had really hoped that Castobenes would have come back and made right his statements of retaliation and abuse of his TSA position. Guess I was expecting to much from our TSA types.
Jul 6, 2011, 5:24 pm
#145
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The 9/11 hijackers, who due to poor policies and bungled intelligence leads were quite successful, would never have been caught by being asked to read their names or other inane BDC mumbo-jumbo.
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Jul 6, 2011, 6:08 pm
#146
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I don't know what you're expecting the OIG to do. I imagine the offending poster has taken steps to ensure he is untraceable on the internet. Any TSA poster who has not done so is a fool; but then that possibility cannot be entirely ruled out.
The TSA could issue a fiat banning its employees from posting, or at least identifying themselves as employees, on bulletin boards/forums which might deprive us of some damn fine entertainment.
The TSA could issue a fiat banning its employees from posting, or at least identifying themselves as employees, on bulletin boards/forums which might deprive us of some damn fine entertainment.
Jul 6, 2011, 6:27 pm
#147
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TSO's at SFO T3 yesterday were asking passengers either "What's your first name?" or "What's your last name?" Must be because of the guy who flew with someone else's ID.
I debated giving them a hard time, but then decided I didn't really care. So I said, "It's Tuesday, so my name must be Dave". He didn't smile, but he did wish me a happy birthday-in-three-days.
Perhaps I'm getting weak in my old age: I also willingly went through the nudie booth (it was one of the millimeter wave ones).
I debated giving them a hard time, but then decided I didn't really care. So I said, "It's Tuesday, so my name must be Dave". He didn't smile, but he did wish me a happy birthday-in-three-days.
Perhaps I'm getting weak in my old age: I also willingly went through the nudie booth (it was one of the millimeter wave ones).
Thank you, thank you very much. I'll be back at two and eight. Try the veal ad don't forget to tip your waitress.
Mike
Jul 6, 2011, 8:57 pm
#148
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I don't know what you're expecting the OIG to do. I imagine the offending poster has taken steps to ensure he is untraceable on the internet. Any TSA poster who has not done so is a fool; but then that possibility cannot be entirely ruled out.
The TSA could issue a fiat banning its employees from posting, or at least identifying themselves as employees, on bulletin boards/forums which might deprive us of some damn fine entertainment.
The TSA could issue a fiat banning its employees from posting, or at least identifying themselves as employees, on bulletin boards/forums which might deprive us of some damn fine entertainment.
Jul 6, 2011, 9:23 pm
#149
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The only time i was asked this my retort was "I thought reading comprehension was a job requirement...So much for highly trained professionals" grabbed my ID and BP out of the braintrusts hands and kept on walking. If looks could kill i would have been dead, but no retaliatory actions as they must have realized they would loose that argument PDQ
Following your recommendations ,you wouldn't get a job with theTSA.
Jul 6, 2011, 10:49 pm
#150
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Last Friday at SFO International terminal.
Tsa: Where are you flying to today? (holding my BP)
Me: Hong Kong
Tsa: The BP says Indonesia
Me: Nope, Hong Kong
Tsa: It says Indonesia here
Me: I don't know about you but I'm going to Hong Kong.
Tsa: O.K. just testing you.
I don't usually participate in the Tsa discussions here but seriously? This and the name pronouncing are just idiotic.
Tsa: Where are you flying to today? (holding my BP)
Me: Hong Kong
Tsa: The BP says Indonesia
Me: Nope, Hong Kong
Tsa: It says Indonesia here
Me: I don't know about you but I'm going to Hong Kong.
Tsa: O.K. just testing you.
I don't usually participate in the Tsa discussions here but seriously? This and the name pronouncing are just idiotic.