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Reporter stopped by TSA agent who didn’t know District of Columbia is in US
KIROTV ^ | July 15, 2014 | WFTV - Orlando

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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TOPICS: Education; Government; Society
KEYWORDS: 3rdthread; districtofcolumbia; donate; florida; tsa
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To: moonshinner_09

There’s a movement that wants to make DC the 58th state.


21 posted on 07/15/2014 5:38:27 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: moonshinner_09
It's something most students learn in elementary school -- the United States is made up of 50 states and the District of Columbia

Students in Indonesia are taught that there are 57 states.

22 posted on 07/15/2014 5:38:39 PM PDT by Hoodat (Proverbs 29:2)
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To: moonshinner_09

We are living in the movie ‘Idiocracy’. Pray for president Camacho to save us!


23 posted on 07/15/2014 5:38:41 PM PDT by bigtoona
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To: moonshinner_09

I remember some airport prick saying there was “...no such thing as NEW Mexico...”


24 posted on 07/15/2014 5:41:35 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: moonshinner_09

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


25 posted on 07/15/2014 5:41:46 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: moonshinner_09

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.


26 posted on 07/15/2014 5:42:48 PM PDT by Random Access
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To: moonshinner_09

What makes them so sure washDC is still in USA ( since January 2009 anyway)?


27 posted on 07/15/2014 5:44:00 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..))
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To: moonshinner_09

Let’s hear it for Public Education (government run) and Teacher’s Unions!


28 posted on 07/15/2014 5:44:10 PM PDT by wetgundog (" Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is no Vice")
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To: moonshinner_09

Well the democrats who run Washington DC don’t seem to know it isn’t a state.


29 posted on 07/15/2014 5:44:56 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: TaMoDee

30 posted on 07/15/2014 5:48:51 PM PDT by razorback-bert (Due to the high price of ammo, no warning shot will be fired.)
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To: max americana

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?


31 posted on 07/15/2014 5:48:53 PM PDT by ErnBatavia (It ain't a "hashtag"....it's a damn pound sign. ###)
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To: bigtoona
"We are living in the movie ‘Idiocracy’. Pray for president Camacho to save us!"

Maybe... Not Sure

32 posted on 07/15/2014 5:49:37 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: ErnBatavia

LOL, is there a video of this idiot on Youtube?


33 posted on 07/15/2014 5:50:42 PM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: mrsmith

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.


34 posted on 07/15/2014 5:54:25 PM PDT by deport
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To: moonshinner_09
they are hired to grope little children, Nuns and old people without reservation, NOT their IQ...
35 posted on 07/15/2014 5:55:33 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: max americana

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zGRQ7Zzemg


36 posted on 07/15/2014 5:56:43 PM PDT by ErnBatavia (It ain't a "hashtag"....it's a damn pound sign. ###)
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To: deport

Maybe the ‘real’ reason everyone in DC opposes closing the border with Mexico is because they know their’s will be next!


37 posted on 07/15/2014 6:01:21 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: moonshinner_09

38 posted on 07/15/2014 6:01:50 PM PDT by Spirochete (GOP: Give Obama Power)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
When I was in college, one of my roommates was carded when he ordered a beer.

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.

39 posted on 07/15/2014 6:04:14 PM PDT by boop (I just wanted a President. But I got a rock.)
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To: mrsmith

Well apparently one TSA agent has the process started.


40 posted on 07/15/2014 6:04:20 PM PDT by deport
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