Great Safety Screening at EWR!!!
Jan 29, 2010, 10:49 am
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Great Safety Screening at EWR!!!
A friend of mine forgot his ID and was just able to board a CO flight at EWR with just a gym membership and birth certificate!!! Both could have been reproduced on color copiers in minutes!
Great job TSA!!!
Great job TSA!!!
Jan 29, 2010, 11:00 am
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BFD (Big Furry Deal)
He shouldn't have had to show any ID to any government actor.
ID is irrelevant to security. That's yet another reason why the TSA is such an incredible joke.
Those in the US government who instituted the ID to travel domestically rule are scumbags who do not belong in the United States. I hope we exile these scumbags to North Korea or Iran.
ID is irrelevant to security. That's yet another reason why the TSA is such an incredible joke.
Those in the US government who instituted the ID to travel domestically rule are scumbags who do not belong in the United States. I hope we exile these scumbags to North Korea or Iran.
Jan 29, 2010, 11:01 am
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Jan 29, 2010, 11:21 am
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IDs provide no useful information at all. Who cares if he showed an ID or not? Did he walk through the metal detector? Were his bags x-rayed? Then no problem.
Bruce
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Jan 29, 2010, 11:35 am
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I have seen that happen at CVG many times. I ounce had a Supervisor ask a Pax if they had anything with the persons name on it for I.D. It could have been written in crayon and they would have let him go. But to be honest with you. the I.D. check is really pointless anyway.
Jan 29, 2010, 11:53 am
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Used to be I'd agree that the ID check is irrelevant since they've gone through security, but (if the system had had its shite together, anyway) the ID check, not security, would've been what stopped the Christmas Day bombing attempt.
OP, your friend might not get the last laugh, though. Sure, he managed to board the plane this time without ID, but will he be able to fly back home without ID?
OP, your friend might not get the last laugh, though. Sure, he managed to board the plane this time without ID, but will he be able to fly back home without ID?
Jan 29, 2010, 12:23 pm
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Would your friend have preferred they turned him away and didn't let him board his plane? Would you have felt safer? Then you probably would have posted a message about how inflexible TSA was and how they didn't let your friend through even though he had his birth certificate.
Jan 29, 2010, 12:26 pm
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Used to be I'd agree that the ID check is irrelevant since they've gone through security, but (if the system had had its shite together, anyway) the ID check, not security, would've been what stopped the Christmas Day bombing attempt.
OP, your friend might not get the last laugh, though. Sure, he managed to board the plane this time without ID, but will he be able to fly back home without ID?
OP, your friend might not get the last laugh, though. Sure, he managed to board the plane this time without ID, but will he be able to fly back home without ID?
Jan 29, 2010, 2:41 pm
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Do you think that people who forget their ID's should be turned away? What if your wallet is stolen while you are traveling?
Can we say chicken little?
