Filthy, disgusting, un-American gate harassment observed at SDF.

14 Dec, 2003. Flight DL5848 SDF-CVG, Gate 1.

15 Dec, 2003. Flight DL5657 SDF-CVG, Gate 1.

Three wand wizards, two male, one female wasting time and money harassing passengers.

The Lies of Loy live on...


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"Give me Liberty or give me Death." - Patrick Henry

I was gate-groped by some fat-... hillbilly TSA employees at SDF each time I was there last fall on the $130 AA LAX-SDF quick-turns.

Went thru my wallet, examined each credit card, counted every dollar of cash, jostled my genitals, wrote everything down in a log - whatta waste of time. May Loy rot in hell.

Nice post. You paint a tapestry of ignorance like some artists paint with oils. Lemme' guess: you dislike TSA. Whew, what a stretch. Seriously, I doubt they counted your cash, or even came close to your nether regions. Post your hate filled, fictitious garbage elsewhere because I�m not buying it.

Go pound sand, dumbass.

I've got my letters to the TSA and the agency's responses. Nothing needed from you.

FWAAA,

Just wanted to say something about the Gate Log you guys like to talk about.

If it's the same one that my airport uses, then it doesn't really take any information about you, the passenger.

We only do selectee's when doing gates so we don't really have to do this anymore, but we used to ask for your boarding pass to confirm if you were a selectee or not.

The other info on the paper is when we arrived at the gate, when the airline started boarding, when the airline stopped, and when the plane pushed. Also how many people were screened.

That's it....that's all I get from you? I call you out and you don't want to take me to task on it? Just proves my point further. All you could muster is a quick name calling session and call it a day. Hmmm.....

ummmmm for what possible reason would they need to examine your credit cards?!? I'm thinking I'd have those card numbers canceled and reissued immediately! Then again, I'm a little on-edge about that kind of stuff having been an identity theft victim.

You've proved nothing but a penchant for hyperbole.

Hyperbole? Man, this whole forum is just one huge hyperbolic chamber filled with exaggerations and falsehoods. Nothing of substance is EVER posted here anymore, just the rantings of those who dislike the TSA and feel that we are losing all of our rights and liberties. Keep it up though, I do get a great laugh out of this stuff on a daily basis!!!!



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

I can attest to the TSA's occasionally rummaging through wallets. They have done it to me, although now I prevent it by putting my wallet in a carry-on bag.

One time, I asked why they insisted on examining every card in my wallet, along with the cash. The TSA blow-hard asked, belligerently, "Have you ever seen a credit-card knife?" Well, no, I have not, so I suppose they are making sure that none of my credit cards is a disguised knife? What a stupid waste of time! Even if I am carrying one of these dreaded "credit-card knives," what can I do with it? Hijack an airplane? I think not! (Imagine a hijacker holding up his dreaded credit-card knife and terrorizing passengers with it: "I have a dreaded credit-card knife, and I'm not afraid to use it!" )

As far as looking at the cash, that one was never explained to me. I think they just want to see how wealthy their victimes are. The wealthier the victim, the happier the TSA thugs are! It's all in the nature of class warfare, of course!

Bruce

Nothing could be further from the truth. His original post was offensive at best, and I called him for it. Sorry I don't tow the FF line when it comes to the TSA. I will not libel a group of people based on a bad experience, or in this case the perception of one. You see, when you go into a situation, like gate screening for instance, with a chip on your shoulder you are now unable to maintain any semblance of impartiality. Now when your wallet gets opened suddenly all your credit cards are being "examined" and all your money "counted." Then, when you are wanded, you have suddenly become the victim of a perceived sexual assault. Your opinions going in dictate your experience. I've been gate screened so many times I can't count. Yes, my wallet came out and was looked at. Yes, I was wanded. Did every piece of plastic in my wallet get "examined"? No. Did I get my crotch handled? No. Have I ever? Never. I just don't buy this type of stuff I read here. Do you see what I am getting at?

Come on Bruce, don't drift downward with the namecalling stuff. Your posts are usually much more highbrow than that.

Yeah, I guess recounting my experience -- which was at least a year ago, by the way -- brought back bad memories. Very few TSA employees were as hostile as the guy who lectured me on credit-card knives.

Bruce

What a silly ascription. Most of us prefer you wealthy frequent flyers because you're fast and usually polite (or at least neutral) with no BS. Back when I gave a **** about this job I used to check non-xrayed wallets for razor-blades and credit-card knives, too.

To "speed" things along how about NOT looking for "harmless to airplanes" items. Then you'll find the rich AND poor can be equally polite.