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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There’s a movement that wants to make DC the 58th state.
Students in Indonesia are taught that there are 57 states.
We are living in the movie ‘Idiocracy’. Pray for president Camacho to save us!
I remember some airport prick saying there was “...no such thing as NEW Mexico...”
I tend to agree with the TSA agent. DC is the only geographic area where liberals greatly outnumber conservatives.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/125066/State-States.aspx
I tend to agree with the TSA agent. From out here in the real world, DC does seem like a foreign country. They don’t speak the same language and they don’t have the same value system.
Washington DC is the Lindsay Lohan of the planet.
What makes them so sure washDC is still in USA ( since January 2009 anyway)?
Let’s hear it for Public Education (government run) and Teacher’s Unions!
Well the democrats who run Washington DC don’t seem to know it isn’t a state.
Didja see that dumbshit kid on Watters World a day or so ago that thought New Mexico is part of “old” Mexico, and isn’t a state?
Maybe... Not Sure
LOL, is there a video of this idiot on Youtube?
I don’t know if it’s residents so much as it is those that work there some of
the time and live in surburbia in one of the adjoining states.
they are hired to grope little children, Nuns and old people without reservation, NOT their IQ...
Maybe the ‘real’ reason everyone in DC opposes closing the border with Mexico is because they know their’s will be next!
He's from Puerto Rico, and presented his license. At the time, P.R. driver's licenses didn't have a photo on them.
The bouncer said: "This is fake! I'm confiscating it!"
It took a nice chat with the manager to straighten things out.
Well apparently one TSA agent has the process started.
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