See something, say something.
Like Big Sis sending border patrol agents to Afghanistan?
When stuff like that happens, take a picture of the guy with your phone and find the airport police. For the most part TSA is useless in a case like that.
It won't be long until cameras are included in the weapons category.
You should have first said something to those around you, then yelled out to the photographer, “Hey...are you from the xyz News? Is this for a news story?” That would have gotten others involved very quickly.
You are one responsible freeper is all I can say.
Maybe you could call back and see if your report was followed up on deep sixed.
It does sound odd. Definitely something I’d expect TSA to follow-up on. Hopefully, it’s just some dude getting photos for his blog.
If you think they are unbothered now, wait until they are unionized. ;-)
The system worked.
Maybe he was a perv...wanting to get pictures of people being groped?
I fly all the time, have had a knife laying open in the seat behind me when I boarded, and many other situations which I reported...they came and got the knife and said a maintenance worker left it there..very comforting...IE) If the government does it, it sux
just think of the reaction if you’d been at Walmart....
Only by the Chinese FBI fellow on our boat from HK to China the first time.
My first thought was that he was one of the TSA’s own agents. Or some other agency’s agents.
Not that it’s good, mind you.
They are likely trying to have a comprehensive database such that all the street security cameras can ID folks automatically by computer matching almost instantaneously. He might well be tasked with collecting air travellers for such a database.
George Orwell is archaic . . . sort of.
I don’t know who I’d contact if I really thought I needed to in such a situation. I might look around for a sincere looking security type with some Christian symbol or at least a USA flag . . . and inquire gently if such was anything I or anyone else needed to be concerned about.
The odds are . . . standing out or making a fuss in that situation will not likely turn out to be to the average traveler’s benefit. Not that we should all be passive sheep by any means. Just that we need to more and more carefully pick our battles.
maybe you should have contacted Janet on her toll-free hotline/s
Did you expect them to close the terminal and then spend a few hours rescreening everyone?
I don’t even fly any more, it’s nuts. I want security. If they have muslim-free flights where everyone has a background check, frequent flyer, etc., etc., that would be one thing. It used to be soooo easy, really easy. It gets so old if you fly a lot, the major carriers used to make it bearable. Once they got taken by surprise by the boom ending and they had to start cutting costs, then I don’t like the whole idea because I know maintenance will suffer. The security problems are just the icing on the cake. I wonder if businesses could do group charters to provide safety and quality, like netjets but include the larger types.
guarantee he was just a perv.
1. casual traveler snapping pictures of country music performer he recognized in line at the ticket counter.
2. sports enthusiast taking picture of a candidate leaving town after interviewing for Tennessee Titans Head coaching position OR
3.Free lance photographer doing the legwork for upcoming bombshell report on democrat politician.
I will let you choose.