Seizing kid's toothpaste
Mar 1, 2008, 1:01 pm
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Seizing kid's toothpaste
Traveling out of GGG the other day (the only commercial traffic there is three American Eagle flights daily), I noticed a TSO doing a bag check on a toddler's backpack. The kid looked to be about two or three.
The TSO finds a round can-looking container of children's toothpaste in the backpack and says, "This is too big!" Those guys are thorough.
So mom and dad are given the choice of taking it to the car or tossing it. They agree to tossing it.
I feel much safer now.
Now, a question to TSA employees who post here. Do you ever just look the other way when you find something like that, or would you get in big trouble from Kipland?
The TSO finds a round can-looking container of children's toothpaste in the backpack and says, "This is too big!" Those guys are thorough.
So mom and dad are given the choice of taking it to the car or tossing it. They agree to tossing it.
I feel much safer now.
Now, a question to TSA employees who post here. Do you ever just look the other way when you find something like that, or would you get in big trouble from Kipland?
Mar 1, 2008, 2:23 pm
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Traveling out of GGG the other day (the only commercial traffic there is three American Eagle flights daily), I noticed a TSO doing a bag check on a toddler's backpack. The kid looked to be about two or three.
The TSO finds a round can-looking container of children's toothpaste in the backpack and says, "This is too big!" Those guys are thorough.
So mom and dad are given the choice of taking it to the car or tossing it. They agree to tossing it.
I feel much safer now.
Now, a question to TSA employees who post here. Do you ever just look the other way when you find something like that, or would you get in big trouble from Kipland?
The TSO finds a round can-looking container of children's toothpaste in the backpack and says, "This is too big!" Those guys are thorough.
So mom and dad are given the choice of taking it to the car or tossing it. They agree to tossing it.
I feel much safer now.
Now, a question to TSA employees who post here. Do you ever just look the other way when you find something like that, or would you get in big trouble from Kipland?
Mar 1, 2008, 2:35 pm
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Mar 1, 2008, 2:43 pm
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So, you want to know if any TSA employee has every let a potential explosive through security just because it was packed in a child's luggage?
Yeah, and if a TSO answered in the affirmative, then the next response from somebody would be, "Oh, so let's just dress Osama up like a 5 year old and give him a Sponge Bob backpack, he'll get right through the "security circus".
Ha, ha, ha....
Yeah, and if a TSO answered in the affirmative, then the next response from somebody would be, "Oh, so let's just dress Osama up like a 5 year old and give him a Sponge Bob backpack, he'll get right through the "security circus".
Ha, ha, ha....
Mar 1, 2008, 2:46 pm
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Yep, I knew that was coming! Thanks for getting it off your chest. ^^^
Mar 1, 2008, 4:27 pm
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So, you want to know if any TSA employee has every let a potential explosive through security just because it was packed in a child's luggage?
Yeah, and if a TSO answered in the affirmative, then the next response from somebody would be, "Oh, so let's just dress Osama up like a 5 year old and give him a Sponge Bob backpack, he'll get right through the "security circus".
Ha, ha, ha....
Yeah, and if a TSO answered in the affirmative, then the next response from somebody would be, "Oh, so let's just dress Osama up like a 5 year old and give him a Sponge Bob backpack, he'll get right through the "security circus".
Ha, ha, ha....
Given the fact that insurgents have started using mentally retarded individuals as human bombs in Afghanistan and Iraq I'm not surprised that the TSA hasnt been lenient on this... And no I'm not touching the whole politics behind that but I just wanted to mention its not as simple as the complainers and naysayers would like us to believe.
Mar 1, 2008, 5:24 pm
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Oh, my! And exactly how many of these have you detected? And the next step is to throw the suspect material in the trash can? What a joke of an agency.
Mar 1, 2008, 5:44 pm
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Mar 1, 2008, 5:50 pm
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Mar 1, 2008, 5:57 pm
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Toothpaste is toothpaste. Shampoo is shampoo. Water is water.
Version 1.0 of the War on Liquids was due to the fear of binary explosives being mixed in flight...that threat was undermined by the facts, so now
Version 2.0 of the War on Liquids is due to the fear of pre-mixed binary explosives being brought on board...that threat has also been undermined by the facts, so now
how about we invest in existing technology to scan all containers for the presence of restricted chemicals, stop the War on Liquids, and return some sanity to the checkpoint?
By the way, if you want to find some real potential explosives, you might want to start looking inside cargo...but of course, Kippie doesn't think any cargo is dangerous, right...Trusted Shippers
Mar 1, 2008, 6:38 pm
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how about we invest in existing technology to scan all containers for the presence of restricted chemicals, stop the War on Liquids, and return some sanity to the checkpoint?
By the way, if you want to find some real potential explosives, you might want to start looking inside cargo...but of course, Kippie doesn't think any cargo is dangerous, right...Trusted Shippers
By the way, if you want to find some real potential explosives, you might want to start looking inside cargo...but of course, Kippie doesn't think any cargo is dangerous, right...Trusted Shippers