Underwire Bra Makes Flight a Bust [Merged Threads]
Aug 26, 2008 | 8:21 am
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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."
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(ok, I think I overdid the sarcasm there)
Aug 26, 2008 | 5:08 pm
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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.
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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
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
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Aug 26, 2008 | 7:13 pm
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Quoted at the end of the article:
The clock is ticking on this agency. She also threatened to sic NOW on them.
Originally Posted by San Francisco Chronicle
Barry Steinhardt, the director of the American Civil Liberties Union's technology and liberty program, said Monday of federal security officials: "They can't find bombs in checked luggage, and they're essentially doing a pat-down of private parts. This is a security apparatus that is out of control."
Aug 26, 2008 | 9:01 pm
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Aug 26, 2008 | 10:47 pm
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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$$$ swabbing it. Don't they realize an electric toothbrush is just that and not something they need to swab? Do they do it to justify having flagged it? Lack of common sense is now a salaried position
with benefits.
It's a power trip. Even when they see what the *dangerous* item is, they waste time and taxpayer$$$ 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.
Aug 27, 2008 | 7:42 am
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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.
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.