Posted on 06/30/2016 10:24:40 AM PDT by C19fan
Show your ID, take off your shoes, hand over the carry-on and maybe, just maybe, get a pat-down!
TSA checkpoints are a hassle travelers have come to accept, but new layers of security could further test your patience.
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One needs to avoid people pile up.
One needs to discourage heavy luggage (except that which gets pre-screened in advance remotely*).
1. Arrival by car at airport - type in ticket #/swipe ticket
2. Airport TSA staffer profiles you
3. Admitted to airport grounds
4. go to a terminal door
5. type in ticket #/swipe ticket
6. put luggage through remotely monitored x-ray device
and be watched remotely
7. show a person your ticket
8. punch machine - get a TSA call number
9. wait to get called to final screening line
[.....calling number 7867 - line B,
please have your TSA call number slip out]
[could have many “free” soda/coffee machines
spread out in a large waiting area]
10. show a person your TSA call number slip
[wait near point B2 over there, please]
11. get full quality TSA screen
12. pick up any prescreened luggage
13. fly
14. land
15. airline will weigh your checked luggage (at destination)*
and any charge will be billed to your credit card
16. if no card/card declined, pay at
destination pick-up counter by cash+$5
*50% discount if you bring your luggage to be
prescreened at a remote site a day in advance
[pick it up after you pass through final TSA security
before you board]
Stop spouting common sense immigration policy
It has been officially banned since 1965
Another thing that would be nice is to standardize the charging devices for electronics as much as possible.
USB for most (cell phones, point/shoot cameras, etc.)
~19volt-> computer->USB
So basically all you would need to carry is your computer power supply and a USB cable.
At Gatwick security, the Brits had large ~10x10 plastic bags handy where you could place most of your metal stuff to speed things along.
The Brits, like TSA at BWI, wanted laptops in a plastic bin without anything on top or below.
[I had a foil from a pint of milk in my pocket - took the Brits and me a few minutes to find out why the machine flagged me.]
Another possibility is to send luggage via the postal system (using freight only airplanes) [between heavy travel points].
Flying out, take your luggage to a post office at least two days in advance.
Have it sent to either your hotel or to the post office nearest your destination airport.
Flying back, drop your luggage off at a post office.
Post office will deliver it to the address on the luggage tag.
Price of these services to be paid when you buy your ticket.
It should be realized that any congregation of people could be a target.
We really can’t secure them all.
Mr. Afghan, sorry, the USCIS is holding your application up for 49 days - some nasty shooting occurred in Orlando.
Ultimately they will have to put the security checkpoints at the newborn nursery. Of course, even that will be futile as long as we let millions of unvented moose limbs waltz in...
Mrs. Afghan, sorry, the Treasury Department is blocking money transfers to Afghanistan for 49 days - some nasty shooting occurred in Orlando.
I thought the USCIS fee was $2,000.
Nope, $2,049.
The $49 is for additional Afghan application screening personnel.
“How long will it be, before a terrorist loads a roller board suit case with whatever goes boom and a lot of nails.”
I think they did that or very similar in whatever place they hit a few months ago. It’s terrible, I get all these Islamic atrocities mixed up.
“We have entered a new age where terror is essentially crowd-funded. Yes, there are still countries involved in terrorism. But the real danger is Islam and social media. The current leader is ISIS, but it can be anybody anywhere. All it takes is an internet connection”
Sounds like a job for hackers and Internet equipment makers.
“I get all these Islamic atrocities mixed up.”
None of them are Islamic - Islam forbids the harming of innocents.
“None of them are Islamic - Islam forbids the harming of innocents.”
Well, they say, and seem to believe that they are, and a lot of their co-muzzies agree. Good enough for me.
Close the airports. Close the malls. OR take the steps necessary to make Terrorism not worth the effort. There are ways but are we willing to use those ways?
At IAD Dulles today a K9 bomb sniffing dog continually walked along the security line while checking in.
Kaboom...No, No the rest of the facility other than the airport’s outside security area is OK—they will need a new batch of those TSA guys though.
Soon these tsa fools will move it to your front sidewalk. “Let me see your papers, Citizen!” Sound vaguely familiar? We have a criminal government.
That’s the best plan I’ve heard yet. There’s only one problem, it doesn’t allow for the oligarchs to control the sheep.
The TSA is not about security...it is a job program for mouth drooling idiots. I have yet to meet a TSA agent that I would consider hiring to watch a parked car.
More checkpoints, more Dems with jobs, more votes...
Been through Ben Guron and around the streets of Tel Aviv. Machine guns and weapons everywhere. No muzzies wearing suicide (coward) girdles, though.
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