Posted on 10/02/2012 2:12:16 PM PDT by GeronL
TSA scrapes bottom for good agents?
(Associated Posers) -PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania – The Transportation Safety Administration admits that finding people who want to pat down and strip search grandma and the kids is a recruiters nightmare. “We have advertised on pizza boxes and offered to ignore certain transgressions in one past, such as drug use, in order to find these screeners” said a spokesperson for the TSA who wanted anonymity.
In a statement to Associated Posers, the TSA said, “Every single TSA employee undergoes a comprehensive background check, which includes criminal history. An allegation alone does not warrant dismissal or automatically disqualify applicants from employment with TSA. The Privacy Act of 1974 prohibits TSA from disclosing information from our employees’ job applications and employment records.”
A string of incidents from stolen items being found at the homes of TSA agents, which a former agent labeled “a culture of deceit” to multiple groping allegations. At one point there was an acknowledgment that new scanners that show your body naked were having images stored and even printed out and traded like baseball cards. The unnamed TSA agent admitted this saying “It allows us to blow off some steam without molesting little girls, which still happens occasionally”
In a recent news report a defrocked former priest named Thomas Harkin was found working at Philadelphia International Airport for a decade and had risen to the post of Transportation Security Manager and had worked in many posts-including as a screener. He had been defrocked and fired after allegations of sexual abuse of an 11 year old girl.
“The TSA admits that child molesters are uniquely qualified to pat down and search for bombs and weapons in the pants and skirts of little girls” said a TSA official “Who else wants that job? We had to fill a lot of posts very quickly after September 11, 2001 and a lot of unsavory characters were hired”
Of all of the questions regarded the TSA, one of the biggest is this: If they cannot stop a person from carrying a loaded gun onto the plane, what is the point of their existence?
bump
Almost had me there. Parody news like The Onion or Looking Spoon.
“Who else wants that job? We had to fill a lot of posts very quickly after September 11, 2001 and a lot of unsavory characters were hired”
Nope, I checked again. Its the Associated Press.
“As the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission takes steps toward making felons a protected class, we have to take this into consideration,” said a TSA spokesperson. “We cannot discriminate against applicants just because of their past. It is the present and future that we’re concerned about. In fact, due to the unique qualifications possessed by some felons, especially molesters, we are considering selecting them as a matter of affirmative action.”
I’d rather drive across the country, than to have to keep the memory of molesting hands.
I’d consider swimming before flying, if I was planning on going international.
Good point!
Can’t discriminate against criminals anymore
TSA, another gubmint money pit.
I don’t think “bump” is quite the caption I would choose.
Semmens must be moonlighting for the AP.
lolz
lol. Nope, its me and my creative and steam outlet.
lol.
good point
Surely this is a joke? Is this from the Onion?
Good one!
If you click on a Google ad there and hundreds of others do too, I can buy a Ramen Noodle. lol.
Too close to the truth.
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