Because TSA= Totally Stupid A$$holes!
These twits detained me for over an hour combined between the ticket counter and the gate check point back in September.
BTW I'm a white male born in the U.S.A. 6'1" 250# with proper I.D.,My Father worked for AA for 35+ years and My Sister currently works for AA- both longer than the Idiots that harrassed Me have been alive, heck I'm older than these dipwads were.
I'll DRIVE where ever I need to go from now on and I grew up on planes...
Next time, grow a beard, wear Muslim headdress, hold a Koran in your hand,and nobody will dare bother you.
You can thank Mineta.
See post 3 on this thread:
Mineta left dangling as Bush considers choices for Cabinet
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1285082/posts
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IN this particular instance the French were at fault. I am sure we provided them with the no-fly list, which they ignored, and let this potential terrorist on the plane.
Well, you know, of course the fact that the airlines are going bankrupt has NOTHING to do with the fact that they're searching grandma in the name of political correctness. Nothing at all. YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED to believe that they are IN ANY WAY connected! Ve can haff you SCHOTT!!!
I agree, some of these TSA people really are incompetent. A seemingly coked up sort of guy at an E. coast airport recently threatened to put my 60 year mom on the "no fly list" for asking security to pass me my boarding pass so she wouldn't have to go through security w/ all our luggage again - when I innocently forgot my boarding pass (but NOT my ID) when going to get a Frapuccino. I had just been through security 5 minutes earlier too. A TSA agent at our connecting airport told us that this happens all the time, and that the agents in fact do honor such requests to pass the boarding pass to a person who has already been through security and forgot their pass when passing BACK through security to go to Starbucks, etc.
The guy was utterly stupid, and made a big stink of his ability to put her on the "no fly list" for absolutely nothing. I've always been a pretty big supporter of Homeland Security - but some of these TSA people are nutso - and scaring innocent Americans for no good reason. And while they're busy scaring the innocent, who knows what real bad guy could be slipping through.