Posted on 07/15/2014 5:22:34 PM PDT by moonshinner_09
WFTV - Orlando ORLANDO, Fla. — It's something most students learn in elementary school -- the United States is made up of 50 states and the District of Columbia. But Cox Media Group reporter Justin Gray found out it's a lesson that an Orlando agent with the Transportation Safety Administration seems to have missed. Gray, who lives in Washington, D.C., was flying out of Orlando International Airport when a TSA agent said Gray's District of Columbia driver's license wasn't a valid form of identification. Gray said his license is legal and up-to-date, but the TSA agent didn't seem to know what the District of Columbia was when Gray arrived at the security checkpoint over the weekend. When Gray handed the man his driver's license the agent demanded to see Gray's passport. Grays told the agent he wasn't carrying his passport and asked why he needed it. The agent said he didn't recognize the license.Gray said he asked the agent if he knew what the District of Columbia is, and after a brief conversation Gray realized the man did not know. Gray was able to get through security and then stopped to complain to a TSA supervisor. Critics of the TSA said that what happened to Gray is a sign that the problems at TSA are bigger than just not knowing geography. "They simply have not been either applying or maintaining standards for good personnel," said Douglas Kidd, with the National Association of Airline Passengers. A TSA spokesman contacted Gray just minutes after he tweeted about the problem. He confirmed that a District of Columbia license is an acceptable form ID.
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These geniuses probably think it’s in the country of Colombia.
I get the same thing at places that need to see an ID with a Guam DL when I am on the mainland.
He should have told the agent that he was an illegal alien or a Muslim terrorist. Then he’d have been let right through, no further questions.
No you can’t make it up, particularly in FL and the other forty-nine states for that matter.
I don’t know — stupidity adds an interesting dimension to probability...
It's a good thing the reporter wasn't flying to Washington State. That would've REALLY blown the nincompoop's mind.
It would have had all the makings of an Abbott & Costello routine.
Never mind how much better off we’d be if DofC residents weren’t allowed into the US LOL!
Just think. These are the type of people who are now in charge of our health care system.
Read a story about a ticket agent who told a passenger that he needed a passport to go to New Mexico.
I'm sure that's exactly what the agent thought.
The TSA will likely make up posters to put up at all stations with pictures of licenses, it would allow them to hire illegals who can’t read English.
Actually, maybe WE just didn’t get the word. If D.C. isn’t in the U.S., then that might explain how they treat us!
Maybe he was only be wishful thinking? I wish DC wasn’t in the USA either.
Or “New” Mexico. I have heard horror stories about the many mistakes and misunderstandings regarding those living in that state when traveling out of state.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3180579/posts
Search much?
I heard Richardson say that he gets mail from the Feds addressed as if he is a foreign country and sometimes a Mexican state.
Well, their boss in the white hut is a gaffe (laugh) a minute.
The vast majority of the TSA agents have on thing in common. Who created the TSA?
It was that way from the start of the "nationalization"
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