Posted on 02/13/2014 3:33:18 AM PST by Timber Rattler
Stories like these remind me of the thugs that became policemen in Clockwork Orange.
the sadistic unionized skycaps (all black)
Moreover, they are obsolete. Skycaps (like redcaps at train stations of old) were historically there to CARRY your bags for you to the train, or at least into the terminal. Now, the airlines inexplicably provide all the technology, trademark kiosks, and a conveyor belt. I don’t know why the airlines give all this away, and penalize the traveler by forcing them to use the tip-extortion machine.
Last time I used them (was forced by a tour bus drop-off) they were slow (dumb waste of their tips) and loud and rude.
NEVER go into a “back room” with these scumbags.
Let there be lots of witnesses to these outrages out in the open.
“What would they do if someone was wearing a catheter and bag?”
I assume they would have to be banned from flying. I don’t fly anymore but I understand you aren’t allowed to take liquids on a plane. What’s the difference between a water bottle and a half full catheter bag?
That’s actually a really good analogy.
I don’t like to think of what I would do if I witnessed something like that, I think I’d wind up behind bars.
Right. I always tell them "Do it right here [in the security area] where everyone can see us." It may be hmiliating but people need to see and be educated as to what's going on. Tyranny loves privacy/secrecy.
TSA Chief Apologizes to Airline Passenger Soaked in Urine After Pat-Down
Dear airlines. Since the implementation of the TSA I have decided I will NOT fly anywhere.
Sorry for your loss of income.
“Moreover, they (skycaps) are obsolete. Skycaps (like redcaps at train stations of old) were historically there to CARRY your bags for you to the train, or at least into the terminal”
These skycaps were 100% inside the terminal, not providing any service, but walking around like hall monitors intimidating as many people as they could.
A skycap had met us at the curb and loaded our stuff onto a very large wagon, and then turned it over to my husband to steer to the check-in line. We were relocating so there was a lot of stuff, including three cats in carriers. Maneuvering the cart around switch-backs in a long check-in line would’ve been a problem. I stood at the end of the line, and DH took the wagon to the front and stood aside to wait until I finally got there.
Skycap thug (who was so butt-ugly and mean that she made Maxine Waters look like Vanessa Williams) noticed I only had a small carry-on and purse and ordered me several times to step out and check in at a kiosk. I kept ignoring her. Then she got REALLY nasty and authoritative. I finally pointed to my husband and his load and told her that “I’m with him”, and that we’d be happy to do that if she wanted to process our cats at the counter. For the first time, she was speechless, people near me in line were laughing at her, and she disappeared, extremely pissed off.
Then, 45 minutes later when we’d finished at the counter, we were lugging the stacked-up cart to where you drop check-in luggage, and then to security check-in for the cats, she grabbed my husband’s hands from it and told him it was illegal for him to do that. She said that only a union person could push a cart. (Mind you, a skycap had turned over the cart to DH at the curb.) So we had to stand there and wait for her to summon a skycap who finally sashayed over to us. Slooowly. What I’m hearing in my mind is, “I don’ know nuthin’ ‘bout birthin’ no babies, Mz. Scarlett.”
Go through Atlanta Hartsfield and your question will be answered.
Make a mess of course.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/40291856/ns/travel-news/t/tsa-pat-down-leaves-traveler-covered-urine/#.Uv0RWPldWSo
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