Strange event at Nashville Airport

Self | 2/4/2011 | Self

[Blood of Tyrants]

Any other Freepers seen anything strange lately?

[FrdmLvr]

See something, say something.

[Paladin2]

"Report suspicious activity"

Like Big Sis sending border patrol agents to Afghanistan?

[USNBandit]

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.

[Paladin2]

Always carry an inexpensive video camera and just start shooting back.

It won't be long until cameras are included in the weapons category.

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

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.

[RitaOK]

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.

[FourPeas]

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.

[doc1019]

If you think they are unbothered now, wait until they are unionized. ;-)

[Williams]

Once had a guy taking photos of my house, called the police and due to the nature of my work at the time, they followed up on the guy’s license plate.

Turned out he was a realtor taking photos for comps. Could be an innocent explanation, the problem is the (non) reaction of the airport official.

[edpc]

After a moment, he FINALLY listened to my story and seemed to be only mildly interested and not concerned at all.

The system worked.

[Dallas59]

Maybe he was a perv...wanting to get pictures of people being groped?

[aces]

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

[OCC]

Sounds pretty strange, but there are a lot of strange people who hang out in public places doing odd things. Like this guy:

[kevao]

LOL! Good one.

[is_is]

just think of the reaction if you’d been at Walmart....

[BfloGuy]

See something, say something.

Thank you, Comrade Napolitano.

[Viking2002]

I just came back from Walmart. After thirty minutes in there, I could write a book on strange sightings.

"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away, for his name is Obama."

[aces]

Maybe zero should get Uncle fester to light America with His mouth as an energy plan..

[Quix]

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.