We have. They haven't.

Because there's some idiot who thought, "Wow, maybe she really was a terrorist and the underwire bra thing is an excuse. So whatever she had in her shirt is now in her bag, and if I catch a terrorist, I get a kewpie doll. At the very least, for every ten bag searches I do, I get to choose one item from the box of stuff we've confiscated."

Mike

Now now, lets not disparage the TSA unnecessarily here. After all, they've never confiscated anything in their history. Passengers merely voluntarily surrender items that Kippie decides they're not allowed to have, because dammit, one day they're gonna figure out how to hijack an airplane with a shampoo bottle! I mean, c'mon!

(ok, I think I overdid the sarcasm there)

I've done so on several occasions, Sens. Lautenberg and Menendez. I don't even get the courtesy of an acknowledgment of my correspondence. Rep. Ferguson, who is not running this year, does respond but basically it's the "anything to keep us 'safe'" response.

TWEET! (Throws yellow flag)

Both of you are assessed fifteen yards for bad punnage. :p

Unless your letter is wrapped in a one-inch stack of C-notes, it's not going to get within a hundred yards of a senator or congresscritter. :mad:

Delayed by her bra, air passenger is indignant
 

Tyche Hendricks, Chronicle Staff Writer

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

(08-25) 16:51 PDT OAKLAND -- When Berkeley resident Nancy Kates arrived at Oakland International Airport to board JetBlue flight 472, she thought she was heading off on a routine journey to visit her mother in Boston. Instead she ended up in a standoff with Transportation Safety Administration officials over her bra.

http://tinyurl.com/6gkcae

Quoted at the end of the article:

The clock is ticking on this agency. She also threatened to sic NOW on them.

Well this is a weighty issue that needs strong support!:D

it's the american way!

True - and it is beyond sad that our elected "public servants" don't listen to us.

Passengers really have no recourse when the TSA sets their sights on you.
It's a power trip. Even when they see what the *dangerous* item is, they waste time and taxpayer$$$ swabbing it. Don't they realize an electric toothbrush is just that and not something they need to swab? Do they do it to justify having flagged it? Lack of common sense is now a salaried position
with benefits. :mad:

It is just a distraction so the next 10 or so get waived by.

Alas, we have said that so many times in this forum over the years, yet this agency keeps getting more and more power. I only wish...

Mike

Much ado about nothing, but the media likes a story that involves bras and government critique.

The woman was an experienced traveler, so she was well familiar with the process. Everyone gets a pat down when they set off the detector. Who knows what she could have been hiding up there?

I agree with most of the anti-TSA sentiment but this dog don't hunt.