Posted on 05/22/2016 11:34:49 AM PDT by Kaslin
Just to add salt to the wound......they have something like a 91% failure rate at explosives detection.
I really wish FR had a like button..:)
That’s not even good enough to call it luck. More like they are trying to get itwrong.
If you are not a writer you should be.
Very funny !
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Your life must be hell.
You nailed it. Union slowdown.
These security lines have moved fairly steadily for years now. Why is it that all of a sudden, in one weekend, we have three hour waits? The passenger load is not increasing.
Hey, that was back in the day. It was a job, and someone had to do it. That was me..:)
The TSA is hit or miss, I fly frequently out of Columbia, SC and the TSA there is fairly decent. I flew out of Tampa last week, there they were decent (not great, but decent) as well,
In Frankfurt, Germany I had to leave security to change planes, When I went through security at the new terminal, they said my bag tested for explosive residue, they very politely and professionally emptied it, then apologized and sent me to my gate... With a submachine gun armed Polizei watching the entire process.
However, I am returning through Chicago and even with over three hours to clear immigration, customs, change terminals and go through the TSA, I fully expect to miss my connecting flight home.
It was wrapped as a birthday present. It showed as a block on the x-ray, and at Copenhagen and Amsterdam they professionally took it, opened the wrapping, inspected it, refolded the paper, re-taped it, and I was on my way.
I got to Atlanta and the "TSA" worker, who was about 18 and had his pants sagging, took it out, ripped off the wrapping, then walked around showing his co-workers what I had. I blew my freakin top.
Next thing I knew, I had 5 armed cops in the immediate area. All the TSA "workers" were laughing at my outrage. The supervisor told them to shut up. I got the item back, minus the wrapping. I was never so hot in my life, unless you count those other times. Airports, and the TSA can KMA.
Somehow liberals fail to see cyclical effects of their own idiocy.
Michelle Malkin nailed it via the Charlotte Observer - see link in previous post.
re: What would it take for the TSA to get fired?
Just off the top of my head, I can think of nothing that would get the TSA fired. Hell, the Federals cannot even fire criminals. Besides, what federal agency has ever been fired (closed down)? Off hand, the only one I can think of maybe is the Rationing Boards of WWll. But I suspect they were rolled up into another agency along with their How To books.
One year exactly after 9/11 we were in LAX for a flight to Mexco. Both blonde haired blue eyed, 45 and 51 years old. While the gal was making us take our shoes off and scanning us, dark haired Mexican men and others were just walking on by. I told the gal.......do we really look like terrorists to you?
They are ridiculous.
why PAY for that?
going thru the Philly airport is an experience to be sure.....
do you suppose they deliberately make it horrifying and lengthy just so more people would pay for those security passes?.....I just refuse to do it...
Shoes stayed on. No nude-o-scopes.
At the bag scanner everyone had a section of a platform that held two bins. When your bins were loaded you pushed them on the conveyor.
All things that speed the process by dozens of seconds each. Over the course of thousands of people a day it all makes a huge difference.
Flying out of Frankfurt in a few days, looking forward to seeing what they do.
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