http://www.usatoday.com/news/sept11/.../elal-usat.htm

A good read for those of you who think TSA screening procedures are inconvienient.

Of course your posting that it happens makes it so right?

Yeah, when you are through with that drink make sure you wipe that mustache off.



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Don't take life too seriously, afterall, you won't get out alive.

I've posted it before: WHO GIVES A RAT'S ... ABOUT WHAT OTHER COUNTRIES DO?

This is the United States of America, not some war zone in the middle east. Supposedly, people's civil liberties are respected in this country, just not at airports.

Posting drivel like this is akin to posting something like: "instead of applying sunscreen to avoid a sunburn in this country, we're going to make you wear a rubber wetsuit everytime you go outdoors. It's for your own protection. Don't like it? You should just be happy you don't live on Mercury where it's really hot." Totally inane.

Welcome to FlyerTalk, omascreener.

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[This message has been edited by Spiff (edited Nov 20, 2003).]

Inconvenient? That's putting it mildly. Your procedures are a farce. An insult to our intelligence. A fraud. Keystone Cops comes to mind. Someone posted recently "the next time TSA performs real security, will be the first time TSA performs real security. Until the TSA realizes that 99.99% of us are not terrorist but rather CIVILIAN CUSTOMERS they will continue to flounder and ultimately will be exposed for the floundering, fleecing farce they are.

Please leave your luggage unlocked.

TSA Issues Tips For Checked Bags

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp...nguage=printer

"Slepian said some machines falsely identify up to 35 percent of bags as having explosives and therefore may need to be opened and searched by hand. "Certain food products -- certainly peanut butters and jellies and chocolate bars -- have the same density as plastic explosives," he said."

It appears your right my figures WERE off. They were too low.....

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The Unknown Screener:
This is why you shouldn't attempt to portray yourself an an expert in TSA knowledge. Your out of the loop. You don't work for them anymore. Your not their hero or mine any longer......


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I have NEVER claimed to be an expert. That is a label you gave me. I may not be employed by the TSA anymore, but that loop is very broad indeed. I never claimed to be anyones hero, nor do I seek that distinction. YOU on the otherhand do fancy yourself an expert as you seem to think you have all the answers. However, as other threads have shown, you do not. Furthermore, my experience with false positives was at MOST 1-2%, hardly 35%. So continue your rant, it is very comical.....

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[This message has been edited by The Unknown Screener (edited Nov 20, 2003).]

I know that since the TSA took over:

1. They found a guy at PIT on a plane that remained overnight.

2. A few bottles of bleach and some play-dough rode Southwest for a few days without being discovered.

3. People have carried loaded guns onto aircraft.

4. People have left checkpoints with prohibited items, and entire terminals have been shuttered.

5. LAX was evacuated because somebody found a sparkler in a bathroom.

Need I go on?


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Don't feed the trolls.

"Someone posted recently "the next time TSA performs real security, will be the first time TSA performs real security."

YOU wrote it!! Can't even remember your own babble?

Well "if you knew what I knew" about sparklers you'd never leave your house

You forgot to mention when they found the playdough and boxcutters they began to inspect EVERY USA aircraft (SouthWest, I think, did inspect all their planes, probably only the bathrooms) then a couple of hours later decided there was no threat and recinded the order. To date they've been given nearly 6 billion dollars (in only 2 years!). I wonder how many billion they've cost airlines and airports with in their haste to protect us from among other things, sparklers.

I have a collection of those idiotic "We rifled through your bags" sheets.

Care to call me a liar anymore?

I wrote that. Time to take a valium.

It's a great line. Sorry for not giving you credit CameraGuy, laziness on my part. But I suppose I could have said it. If the TSA says I said it then I must have. After all...if passegers were to be believed... the planes would start falling from the sky's... If you only knew what I knew you'd think the TSA a joke too.

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Hah, I don't trust all of my TSA co-workers! I've witnessed TSA supervisors who have stolen from passengers and the government. I've managed to get two fired, but I am still working on the other two. This has been more difficult because management is closing ranks and using intimidation techniques. I'd really welcome an opportunity to appear before a Congressional Hearing about the cronyism and corruption I have observed at my airport.



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