DIA beefs up security, adds screeners to handle Series traffic
Oct 19, 2007, 1:31 am
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DIA beefs up security, adds screeners to handle Series traffic
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::snort::
If it walks like Workfare, and talks like Workfare ...
DIA is getting beefed-up security forces to go with the hot dogs and hot tickets of the World Series.
"A significant number" of additional screeners and other security personnel will be deployed at the airport starting this weekend, said Carrie Harmon, spokeswoman for the Transportation Security Administration.
She didn't specify what the number might be.
She said the World Series has activated the TSA's "national deployment force" of security personnel whose job is to come into a specific area to help out during a big event.
"A significant number" of additional screeners and other security personnel will be deployed at the airport starting this weekend, said Carrie Harmon, spokeswoman for the Transportation Security Administration.
She didn't specify what the number might be.
She said the World Series has activated the TSA's "national deployment force" of security personnel whose job is to come into a specific area to help out during a big event.
If it walks like Workfare, and talks like Workfare ...
Oct 19, 2007, 7:08 am
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Sounds like an excuse for more workfare. The WS will be in Denver for what, 3 days? with folks departure times spread out I bet... Lots of fans are local. If BOS makes it, (which I hope doesn't happen) you could have more out of town fans than CLE, since they draw a larger area/more economic prosperity in Boston than CLE, etc... But really, I don't see this packing the airport like a golf tournament.
Sounds like an excuse to get in the spotlight...
Sounds like an excuse to get in the spotlight...
Oct 19, 2007, 7:33 am
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OK folks...
betting is now open on the odds TSA screeners will be seen at the stadium helping check for containers of liquid and packages of food (their specialty), while raiding the stadium area with a 'crack' VIPR squad to observe the behavior of drunk and giddy baseball fans.
Opening odds.... 3-5
betting is now open on the odds TSA screeners will be seen at the stadium helping check for containers of liquid and packages of food (their specialty), while raiding the stadium area with a 'crack' VIPR squad to observe the behavior of drunk and giddy baseball fans.
Opening odds.... 3-5
Oct 19, 2007, 7:38 am
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They sure do like using those fancy, authoritative sounding words like "deployed."
Please.
So they're bringing up some full-time overtime seeking and part-time screeners in from COS and CYS.
WTH? They don't need additional people...this is ridiculous.
The screening at DEN slowed down about six or eight months ago when they consolidated two lines into one magnetometer. The lines have never been the same since, slowing down significantly.
Couple that with the loads on flights already at high levels, and none of this makes any sense.
Please.
So they're bringing up some full-time overtime seeking and part-time screeners in from COS and CYS.
WTH? They don't need additional people...this is ridiculous.
The screening at DEN slowed down about six or eight months ago when they consolidated two lines into one magnetometer. The lines have never been the same since, slowing down significantly.
Couple that with the loads on flights already at high levels, and none of this makes any sense.
Oct 19, 2007, 12:15 pm
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I am sure the TSA'holes are put up in the finest hotels with generous per-diems. A least let the hotels make some money off of this boondoggle.
I also hope there is a long and large blizzard during their deployment and that DIA closes for, say, 96 hours before the plows make it through.
I also hope there is a long and large blizzard during their deployment and that DIA closes for, say, 96 hours before the plows make it through.