[Mr. K]

did you actually read the article?

If you did, are you lacking the ability to COMPREHEND?

The guy did not pass-by someone on the street with an umbrella, as in your RIDICULOUSLY STOOPID example.

He WENT THROUGH AIRPORT SECFURITY with items which could be clearly and easily considered as bomb making materials.

Get it? He had an obviously extravagently wired watch (art??) and boots too big with extra padding in them. HE WAS LOOKING FOR CONFRONTATION as clearly as if he had worn a sign saying “I am carrying stuff to make a bomb”

If he had stuffed that ‘artwork’ and odd extra padding inside a briefcase, and sent it through the scanner it would have been flagged too and sent people into panic mode.

How stupid is that?

[publius911]

That N00B nutcase is the best argument to prevent new "Freepers" from actually posting anything for about the first 5 years of membership!

GHEEZ!

[Hardraade]

Must be saturday.

Some of you boys have serious mental problems. Try and sleep them off.

[Jubal Harshaw]

You seem to be under the impression that the TSA actually has the main function of making air travel safer. That may be part of their function, but neither the main part, nor a part that they have ever performed.

We can consider their real function more dispassionately, perhaps, by at one of their historical antecedents, far removed from our time. In that light, I present the following history lesson:



and also this elementary-school level primer on an important facet of the radiation exposure to which the TSA subjects people: