BDO's prevent security breach
 

Behavior Detection Officer Checking Travel Documents and Off-Duty Police Officer Prevent Security Breach at World’s Busiest Airport
TSA.gov

As part of a new initiative to engage Behavior Detection Officers (BDOs) in checking travel documents, BDO Joshua Wensell was working at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport's main security checkpoint when he was presented with ID that caught his attention. Wensell summoned fellow BDO Joseph Zavodny who engaged in conversation with the passenger in an attempt to verify his ID.

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:rolleyes:

I wonder if and when we'll get the "rest of the story".

not sure if we will ever get the "Rest of the story"; but running away from them and trying to run through the security checkpoint (if true) is really stupid, and had the whole terminal needed evacuation, many would have been more than pissed.

Ciao,
FH

yup cuz this is the tsa originating the story

yes, this "pax" wins the dumba$$ award for trying to flee by running towards security but.....

• i give the pax credit for yelling the secret word "breach" (almost as if he knew ;))
  
• it wasn't the tsa's bdo who prevented the breach but an off duty leo who "grabbed and detained" (the tsa's own words, not mine) said pax-tell it like it is tsa, tell it like it is

I guess I missed it...surely they found a gun, a bomb, some explosive liquids? A nuclear device, schematic diagrams on how to blow up the Sears Tower, a signed affadavit on how he intended to kill hundreds?

What was the threat here? Who did he hurt? How was he equipped to wreak havoc on the thousands of travelers goign through that airport? Where was the boxcutter, the dagger, the stun-gun to disable the crew?

Did he have a warrant for his arrest? Was he a prison escapee? Did he have drugs, counterfeit cash, stolen credit cards, or (shudder to think) FIVE OUNCES OF MOUTHWASH on him??

I thought for sure that I read the entire article...I can't believe that such self-congratulatory hype would be issued for just a guy who blew the lid off of a fake ID! Posing for a news photographer?

In the movie "Little Big League" one of the players that the main character really likes is struggling and at the end of his career, and the 13 year old maanger of the Minnesota Twins acts like he just hit a walk-off home run to win the game when all he did was get on base. The manager character looks at him and says, "Don't you think there's something wrong when you get THAT excited over a seeing-eye single?"

The same thing applies here. The Behavior Detection Officer caught a guy with a fake ID. WELL LET'S ALL SLEEP BETTER TONIGHT knowing this hardened criminal is off the street!! Can anyone recall the percentage of decoy guns and bombs that the TSA missed at EWR last year? Was it 70 or 75%? This kind of hype on the part of the TSA means that they are desperately grasping for ANYTHING that makes them look even partially competent.

I'm guessing the millions of dollars they spent on metal badges didn't cut it.

--PP

Did we read the same article? :D

:rolleyes:

BTW, I did a good job at work today as well.

You might want to re-read the article... the only reason the police officer grabbed this guy is because the BDO yelled "breach" :rolleyes:

did you contact the AP?

BDOs must be really ineffective if they consider identifying a nut that cannot even remember a birthday on the ID he is using a big success that is worth media coverage.

This is what happens when you have a disgusting, un-American, piece of offal agency that constantly needs to justify its useless existence.

Congress should correct the mistake it made 6 years ago and destroy this scummy agency and put its leaders in prison for life.

I think you meant it was 7 years ago what happening the man was ran down the escalator from exiting of the trams. I didn't realize know what happening at ATL today. Is that all concourse has been already evacuations? I think TSA has been done outstanding job for catching the man while he is identifications fraudulently. I thinks the man will be remain in the police custody. Unless the police will found out when they have verify identifications by real name. The men should be remain in the jails for his miserable life in prison.

You'd think if they really had the big catch that they would have names and everything. Don't most of the other stories name the offender? the lack of a name, description, etc seems strange. There isn't even a gender mentioned.

Hate to say it, but my money is on an illegal immigrant...not a "terrorist" if this really did happen.

ETA: I tried googling for the story from other sources and found nothing.

I disagree completely.

I don't care what ID, if any, that someone carries.

No one should EVER have to show ID at the airport, unless they are bypassing the screening process completely.

The TSA has never done any outstanding job at anything except destroying civil liberties, wasting billions of dollars, and and wiping their behinds with the Constitution. The TSA is an un-American disgrace and should be destroyed.

The actual figure for weapons missed at EWR was 92%. They failed 20 of 22 tests. There was not a figure provided for the number of fake IDs missed. Based on the TSA's touting of every fake ID found, that would seem to be a more important statistic for them. I wonder why they don't report it? :confused: