Posted on 04/19/2006 12:25:11 PM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
An airline passenger who arrived in Florida from New Jersey opened her suitcase and found a uniform belonging to a Transportation Security Administration officer, according to a Local 6 News report.
Debra Sanders found the TSA uniform folded and packed with her items.
"My jaw dropped," Sanders said. "I couldn't believe what was on there: Patches for Homeland Security, TSA all over it, and then the name tag with the number."
Sanders had just arrived at Tampa International after flying JetBlue out of Newark.
Sanders said she hopes the incident was just a mistake by a screener but fears someone was trying to pass off the TSA uniform to someone else and put it in the wrong piece of luggage, the report said.
She said her neighbors were killed in the Sept. 11, World Trade Center attacks.
"To see something like this when you don't want something like that happening again, it's a little scary," Sanders said.
The Transportation Security Administration was contacted about the uniform, according to the report.
I feel secure.
I suppose this is expected when our uniforms are made in Mexico....
sarc off....maybe
Well, there's a clue. Is it a real TSA name and number, or is it fake?
One wonders if we'll ever know.
Unrelated (?) incident: "suspicious pkg" spotted by TSA at Atlanta airport today.Terminal closed,passengers evacuated.
"Debra Sanders found the TSA uniform folded and packed with her items. "
--- Any odds that Debra Sanders will never get through airport security again without strip & cavity searches?
Hopefully, it's just the TSA conducting a test of security.
Yes, and who is part owner of JetBlue???? George Soros! AHEM!
Somewhere there is a shirtless TSA worker. Now THAT'S scary!!
Newark is a cesspool. It doesn't surprise me. Maybe airports should start administering lie detector tests to employees.
TSA screeners should not go through luggage on the same table they stack their own belongings on.
I flew to tampa and back last week. I flew with my pistol, locked up and declared like required, and they checked my bags three times both ways.
I got the counter check to see that my firearms were unloaded, the secondary screening while I watched, and then a third screening after they went behind the the "curtain." Of course they left me a little TSA screening notice inside. I guess us police officers are a high risk on domestic flights.
At best I'd say that's extremely unlikely.
One wonders if the TSA'll ever know.
Yeah and it's named after those blue state Democrats! I'm only flying on JetRed from now on! ;^)
Is she missing a dress and high heels?
I'd say that is the most likely scenario. If it were a terrorist doing it, then how would they know if they were successful? The TSA can just ask security if they found the plants.
Something is a brewin'...
No, but Dennis Rodman is...
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