Posted on 06/05/2016 9:49:19 AM PDT by Repulican Donkey
We returned on a Saint Louis to Dallas flight after burying my wife's brother - a decorated Master Chief who served in Vietnam, did covert work for the CIA and ferried battle orders from the Pentagon to Saudi Arabia during Desert Storm. When we got to Dallas we noticed both our bags partially open. Some meds were gone from my wife's bag; some coins from mine - nothing valuable. The bags were not rifled so the baggage handlers didn't do it. The TSA baggage screeners x-ray every bag so they did it. Here's the kicker: to get to the meds they had to dig under the tri-corn folded flag from the casket. So our overpaid, taxpayer funded, unionized TSA slugs are a bunch of thieves.
Duh.
Criminals now are the preferred employees
for the feds; especially those linked to Islamic
terrorism.
This could be curtailed somewhat if the Airlines themselves hired the security people instead of the total failure US Gummint. TSA=Thousands Standing Around!
This is old news. They also have to have a partner aiding them.. Recently they arrested a screener who was selling the stuff on ebay.
Oh, besides we have the most corrupt government in our history, this means the lot.
My experience is that ANYTHING in checked luggage of any perceived value is fair game to be stolen. It’s no more complicated than that. And if you complain to the supervisor (which of course occurs only AFTER you’ve returned home and found stuff missing) you’ll be politely laughed at as they claim they take theft from baggage very seriously.
You have absolutely zero recourse in this situation. Maybe you have a receipt. Maybe you just flew in from some distant venue and you have the receipt showing you bought your item there. But you have no way of proving that the receipted item or items were ever in your bags. There’s nowhere to go in these situations, the supervisors will take no action. You put stuff in checked baggage, if it has any value, it will be stolen. It’s a certainty.
Thanks to George Bush for creating the worst Fed.gov super-agency yet.
The only positive is that Americans (and especially conservatives, the only true “activists” remaining) are so highly skeptical of government that I am not sure it could be done again.
This progressive love for top-down, central-planning agencies started one hundred years ago, and reached its peak with LBJ, Nixon and Carter. Roman Emperors used to build arches or coliseums in their own honor - now It seems to be a goal of empire-building Presidents as a who of strength and to create a legacy by having some bigger-and-better, super-expensive and wasteful super-agency created under their watch.
TSA also hired a Somali war-criminal to work at Dulles International.
Old W just keeps on giving. From the very beginning they hired screeners who weren’t screened. The first one I every spoke with had been a hairdresser a month earlier.
Nobody robs banks anymore.
The thieves all get government jobs.
Decades ago when I traveled to Africa, checked a bag and my dirty underwear was stolen. . .and since we brought those same stinky-butt-in-the-air praying third-world thieves to the US and employ them as “security,” we will see these muslime thief’s start stealing everything from meds to dirty underwear.
Its their culture. . .and we can’t judge them, after all, and since all cultures are equal.
By the way - I see a great undercover journalism opportunity here.
Have a great experiment shipping computers, cash, gold-coins, opioid medicines on a statistically significant number of specific airline routes throughout the country.
Track the bags via GPS, and if technologically possible, where they are opened.
Results would be very interesting.
Reason #3 why I don’t/haven’t flown commercial since TWA 800 in July 1996. If I can’t drive there, I ain’t going.
I was flying back from a Colorado vacation with a brand new large rolling suitcase a few years ago. When I collected my luggage, I saw stuff falling out of it. The suitcase had been opened with such violence that the fabric tape for the zipper had separated from the suitcase fabric. The suitcase had not been locked, as you’re not allowed to lock them these days. It had obviously been rifled through, looking for valuables. Haha you thieving scum, I keep the really good stuff on my person or in my carry-on bag. The TSA is a bunch of useless, pretty darn stupid and ineffective thieves. Israel’s security is a thousand times better and they don’t employ knuckle walking imbeciles to carry it out either.
Respectfully, the results would not be interesting. The results would be, the stuff of value would be gone.
The next thing that happens should you try to expose it: You’d be accused of touting some whacko conspriracy theory and trying to game the system by making false claims when the mdse disappeared. The “defense” would bring up your NRA membership as proof of your whackoism, and then there was that time you got into a fight with Billy in the 5th grade. Then there was the ticket you got for rolling through a stop sign some years back.
TSA management would then close ranks and accuse you of racism and racial profiling while agreeing to review their regulations in a 100% boilerplate press release stressing diversity for a meeting that will never occur because special funds were never authorized for a 729-member trip to the Ritz Carlton on the CA coast for a 2-day intensive retreat.
45 days later, the whole thing will be forgotten by the introduction of 3-5 shiny objects in the interim. It’s just like fake votes appearing out of nowhere, except in reverse. This is stuff that never existed disappearing to nowhere.
yes, of course there would be blow-back and consequences. Its super-naive to think one episode will cause change in the culture of a huge agency of Fed.gov. Just look what happened to Project Veritas in their PP baby-parts investigation. They were sued multiple times, they have leftist Governors and AG's legislating against them. AND YET - the truth got out and it can never be hidden and is turning hearts and minds of the population against the PP butchers and their political backers.
When my gunsmith, and I went to SHOTshow, , flying from SAT,
we both had stuff stolen at the walk through screening.. he had a watch stolen out of the bin they make you deposit things in as you walk through. I had stuff stolen out of my carry on.
He went right back to the screener..was told “Oh, the other guy just left..change of shift. Sorry, I can’t help you.”
They have obviously refined their techniques. That’s pretty brazen.
As far as I am concerned, any valuables left in luggage WILL be stolen. It’s a perfect certainty. But your story, that’s literally taking a watch off your wrist.
I used to fly a lot before I retired. I learned very quickly after TSA became entrenched that the smart move is to travel with only a small carry on. I mean nothing more than what you need on the flight plus a toothbrush and change of skivvies just in case. Just a briefcase or small backpack. I colder months I can even get away with just a book and my coat with emergency overnight essentials in the pockets.
Send everything else ahead to the hotel or where ever you will be staying via UPS, FedX or USPS.
Avoid the hassle of baggage claim, lost luggage and trying to find room in the overhead bin for an over sized carry on.
Get off the plane and head straight to the rental car or taxi kiosk. Your stuff will be waiting for you at the hotel. For the return trip, pack and drop off your stuff at the hotel business center or front desk for shipping back home.
People who try to lug all their worldly possessions through the airport are just making things harder on themselves and everyone else.
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