Posted on 08/29/2009 10:06:37 PM PDT by george76
Woman took items while bags were being screened.
A 30-year-old former Transportation Security Administration worker was sentenced to 90 days in jail and five years' probation Thursday for stealing jewelry, gift cards and other things out of tourists' bags as the items were undergoing security screening at Kahului Airport.
Devie Darla Dale Feig... The agency already has reimbursed the victims.
"I'm not a bad person. But what I did was wrong. I wanted to say I'm sorry," Feig said ...
Deputy Prosecutor Terence Herndon called the case egregious and asked that Feig receive the full 90-day jail term.
"I believe a strong message needs to be sent that this behavior will not be tolerated," he said.
Herndon said that when Feig was caught, she told police that the practice was going on for a year and it was easy for her to steal.
one of the victims, a teacher from Missouri...
She later tracked the gift cards and found they were used by Feig to purchase items over the Internet, and the items were shipped to a Kahului address.
(Excerpt) Read more at mauinews.com ...
“Devie Darla Dale Feig”
I was about to say you can’t make something like that up but I guess some parents did.
90 days? Why not just give her a pedicure and call it even?
But don't call her a bad person. That would damage her self-esteem, and she'd sue your butt off over it - and win a million bucks.
Some people are very delusional....
If traveling with something valuable try hard not to ever let it out of your sight, much less check it with baggage.
They get caught this red handed and all they get is a slap on the wrist. That’ll learn ‘em, all right. The prosecutor was right.
Will the TSA put this thief right back where it is easy to steal? Hire someone to watch over her?
"She admits to stealing and then she says she is not a bad person? Is this humor?"
Trying to explain the concept of "self-esteem" to a Japanese is extremely painful. They tend to walk away shaking their heads...
Maybe she’ll work the passenger screening machines. Then she’ll get to make disabled veterans take their shoes off.
One thing the Japanese grok is honor.
This sounds like one of those Obama Hopey Changey things. “What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is mine too!”
A sense of HONOR.
My parents were very big on the concept of honor. It was a real thing in my house growing up, and it's something I'm teaching my children.
If I did something like this, my terminally ill 80 year old father would muster the strength to slap me soundly across the face, and then step aside so my 76 year old mother could soundly slap the other side - all for bringing shame to the family name. Then they would both call me what I was - a THEIF - and disown me publicly.
My parents are "old school." Your worth was measured by your personal INTEGRITY, by how you behaved and honored your word to others, not some bloated, narcissistic, morally vapid sense of self.
Hey, who says you can’t trust your government? These guys are working their hearts out for you (whoops, I mean themselves)...
So she keeps her job, occasionally stays in a low-security jail twice per week (reducing need for expensive utilities and simultaneously lowering food expenses), and no mention of restitution. She's likely a liberal, so the whole notion of freedom isn't crucial to her, either. In her case, it was a total win-win-win situation.
““Devie Darla Dale Feig”
I was about to say you can’t make something like that up but I guess some parents did.”
BTW these are innocent naive Japanese tourists who do not live in fear, and use extra awareness as they walk around, as we do .........
Racism.
So that’s where my really cool flip flops with the beer bottle opener on the bottoms went...
Disappeared returning from Maui in November.
Well she does have to give near $1000 back. That’s for what she was CAUGHT with by the cops. Heaven knows what else she took before she got bold enough to try to use traceable financial instruments, and claims have been put in for, and denied by the TSA because everything wasn’t proved in triplicate.
TSA personnel should be strip searched before and after they leave their jobs.
That would make them a little more sensitive to invading other people’s privacy.
“So she keeps her job, occasionally stays in a low-security jail twice per week”
She was fired, she didn’t keep her job
“Look for the union label...”
The TSA must have “tightened up” since I worked for them. We had a female screener who was involved in a women passengers purse coming up approx $700 “light”. Other TSA employees filled out reports that implicated the screener. One of my immediate supervisors said she was astonished that managements response was to only to recommend a temporary suspension, no direct access to passengers luggage and a letter of reprimand. Don't get me wrong I had nothing against female screeners but the TSA was so desperate to keep female screeners for searching women passengers that they tolerated all sorts of behavior. Other behaviors that I saw were different rules for different demographics. They only fired or prosecuted in only the most flagrant of cases. One of the main reasons I resigned.
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