Interesting figures.
Jul 23, 2007, 11:02 am
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Interesting figures.
269: The number of TSA people that have been terminated for theft.
1/3 of 1 percent: The actual amount of the screening workforce terminated.
$4 million. The amount of money spent annually to dispose of lighters.
400% The amount of TSA turnover of personnel from the start of the agency to 18 months ago.
2.5 Times the highest next highest agency (the current turnover rate.)
1/3 of 1 percent: The actual amount of the screening workforce terminated.
$4 million. The amount of money spent annually to dispose of lighters.
400% The amount of TSA turnover of personnel from the start of the agency to 18 months ago.
2.5 Times the highest next highest agency (the current turnover rate.)
Jul 23, 2007, 11:20 am
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Sounds like an excellent time to write one's representatives and ask them to pull the plug on this disgusting, useless agency.
Jul 23, 2007, 6:47 pm
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Why don't you just leave them there, on a tray, for arriving passengers to take (after their own have been confiscated at the airport of departure). You know "take a lighter, give a lighter" sort of thing.
Four millions saved and happier passengers, what do you say ?
Oh, and cut me a $40,000 check, please.
Jul 23, 2007, 9:28 pm
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Jul 23, 2007, 9:45 pm
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Are you guys really paying somebody to take care of the lighters ???!!
Why don't you just leave them there, on a tray, for arriving passengers to take (after their own have been confiscated at the airport of departure). You know "take a lighter, give a lighter" sort of thing.
Four millions saved and happier passengers, what do you say ?
Oh, and cut me a $40,000 check, please.
Why don't you just leave them there, on a tray, for arriving passengers to take (after their own have been confiscated at the airport of departure). You know "take a lighter, give a lighter" sort of thing.
Four millions saved and happier passengers, what do you say ?
Oh, and cut me a $40,000 check, please.
Jul 23, 2007, 9:54 pm
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), so they must be hazmat. Right?
Jul 23, 2007, 10:43 pm
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But what about those hazardous items known as shampoo, water, and toothpaste
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Jul 23, 2007, 10:49 pm
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Jul 24, 2007, 12:50 am
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Yes, but why don't you give them back to the passengers on arrival ? Then you would rarely, if ever, accumulate so many that they would have to be considered hazmat.
Jul 24, 2007, 1:46 am
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It gets handed off to the office, where they properly dispose of it... I can only imagine...
Jul 24, 2007, 10:52 am
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Just fly with your lighter
I've quit hiding them in my bag for several months and have never been stopped at the xray checkpoint. Actually never intended this, but spent 6 weeks flying around Europe where this doesn't seem to be an issue. Upon returning to the states, I just never changed my ways.