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Sep 21, 2006 | 7:41 am

red456

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Screeners arguing

I found this on another website:

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I'm told by people who work at airports that TSA is argueing over who gets to take home things they take from passengers.

Sep 21, 2006 | 7:52 am

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Maybe they should donate that stuff to charity or give it to a homeless shelter.

Sep 21, 2006 | 8:34 am

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Sep 21, 2006 | 8:41 am

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Originally Posted by Bart

I will not allow me doing my job, though I may disagree with some of the policies, to become an excuse to steal.

Um... do you not see what the original action, taking the man's liquor, as stealing in the first place?

Sep 21, 2006 | 9:05 am

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Originally Posted by Bart

Recently, a passenger decided to surrender a very expensive bottle of liquor.

Gotta call b.s. on that quote, Bart. It was confiscated. Pax "decided" not to miss the flight. P.S. You should have doinked pax on head with said bottle for being a dummy.

Sep 21, 2006 | 9:09 am

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That is all the TSA is doing is STEALING & pissing people off. What a waste.

Sep 21, 2006 | 9:31 am

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Originally Posted by jello2594

Um... do you not see what the original action, taking the man's liquor, as stealing in the first place?

No-- the passenger gave it up "voluntarily" because he wanted to fly that day.

Sep 21, 2006 | 9:55 am

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Sep 21, 2006 | 10:01 am

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Sep 21, 2006 | 10:17 am

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Put that way, Bart, I gotta agree with you. I guess the pax did give up his contraband volountarily, and did not have it confiscated. I retract my b.s. call. Good for you, Bart!

Sep 21, 2006 | 10:31 am

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Originally Posted by Bart

I'm a big believer in individual responsibility. In this day and age, especially five years in the wake of 9/11 with all of the controversial security measures, there is absolutely no excuse for not knowing what is inside your carry-on. None whatsoever.

Not knowing what's in your bag is unlikely. Not understand what is allowed and what isn't is VERY likely, given the random factors of what phase of matter the TSA is feeling like outlawing this week, how the random TSADroid chooses to view the restrictions, and how mad they are that day and feel like taking it out on the passenger.

Sep 21, 2006 | 10:50 am

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To the OP: OK, but hold on, an unsourced second-hand hearsay report from some website's forum is hardly reliable enough to start jumping up and down about!

Sep 21, 2006 | 11:38 am

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Originally Posted by Bart

You raise a good conundrum with the TSA and Ma and Pa Kettle.

The problem is that the TSA thrives on appeasing to the people to rarely fly. Those people who rarely fly are not all as savvy on the rules. They are the people the TSA likes to showcase when they ask the public about how they are doing with "security."

Your argument relies heavily upon common sense. Many Ma and Pa Kettles who rarely travel do not have that airline common sense. They don't think like TSAers and FFers do. They're just concerned about if their flight is on time and what they will do at their destination. Throw in the liquid ban at the "security" checkpoint, yet they can purchase the same stuff airside, and they don't know what the hell to think.

One could make an argument about the TSA and common sense, but I digress.