Posted on 04/19/2006 12:25:11 PM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
An airline passenger who arrived in Florida from New Jersey opened her suitcase and found a uniform belonging to a Transportation Security Administration officer, according to a Local 6 News report.
Debra Sanders found the TSA uniform folded and packed with her items.
"My jaw dropped," Sanders said. "I couldn't believe what was on there: Patches for Homeland Security, TSA all over it, and then the name tag with the number."
Sanders had just arrived at Tampa International after flying JetBlue out of Newark.
Sanders said she hopes the incident was just a mistake by a screener but fears someone was trying to pass off the TSA uniform to someone else and put it in the wrong piece of luggage, the report said.
She said her neighbors were killed in the Sept. 11, World Trade Center attacks.
"To see something like this when you don't want something like that happening again, it's a little scary," Sanders said.
The Transportation Security Administration was contacted about the uniform, according to the report.
I came home today and someone had replaced all of my furniture with exact duplicates.
Hey now, the city of Detroit is a fine place. It's just the ever-expanding dying ring around the city where you sure as heck don't want your car to break down. No easy feat on our crummy roads.
Of course, construction season has begun again so maybe things will get better.... yeah I didn't think so either.
And I'm flying out of Detroit into a REAL cesspool tomorrow morning... Washington D.C. (business trips, joy)
I wonder if they will test the DNA on the uniform. Uniforms are stolen much more often than the general public realizes...and I doubt the robbers are using these for Halloween.
Hello, YOU'VE BEEN DRAFTED!
"We Don't Professionalize Until We Federalize!"
Debra Sanders' blow-dryer? *rimshot*
A lot of people collect law enforcement patches I suppose but I was surprised that eBay does not allow the trading of some Forest Service stuff but allows some of these other things that could be very helpful to a terrorist.
Hmmm....a truck full of ammo, including RPGs found on the Texas side of the Mexican border. Two men found with half million bucks in small bills in a duffle bag at a nuclear plant. A TSA uniform obviously put in a wrong bag while being passed off to someone. Something is up, big time.
Pingalingaling!
Police are lookibg for a TSA officer dressed in underwear.
Judges will consider either answer to be correct
Glad you didn't need it.
Personally, I'd like to see people required to bring their pistols to the airport, make sure they have airline-rated ammo, issue arms to those who come unprepared.
Every flight, part of the well-regulated militia.
(Dream on.)
What about someone who purports to be a police officer? Who really knows?
Anyway....I would feel safer just knowing someone like you was aboard the flight.
Thanks DC for the ping. Newark airport...color me surprised! </sarcasm>
Well I have my badge and ID, which is exactly as much ID that the TSA screeners have.
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