Has the Time Come for Passenger Mutinies?

The Reality Check ^ | 21 August 2006 | Sher Sieve

[JoeFromSidney]

I think a lot of people have "mutinied" in another way: they have quit flying. I no longer fly domestically, and doubt I'll ever take another overseas trip.

I'm a retired Colonel. For nearly 40 years I held either SECRET or TOP SECRET clearances. Yet I've been "selected" for secondary inspection, and am obviously on some kind of list, because on one flight the inspector asked me where my laptop was (I didn't take it on that particular flight).

Harassing me is sheer stupidity. Go after the likely bombers, not the rest of us.

[observer2]

"The flight attendant who refused to take the bottled water is a sane person in a terrorized world."

The new security rules are that NO bottled water shall be brought onto any airline flight. This flight attendant IGNORED the rules and should be fired.

[Tucker39]

I am a 74 yr. old white guy with a buzz haircut. I have sleep apnia. When I travel I always take my CPAP if it’s going to be overnight. I’m sure that by this time TSA people have seen thousands of them. But for some BS perverted reason, they act like it’s the first they’ve ever seen, going over it with a “sniffer” and wiping it with some ki.d of little pads...and once or more dragging me off to a private area and wanding me repeatedly. I never give them any static because I don’t want to miss my flight. But under my breath I am saying to myself what a bunch of useless, turdbrain drama pimps they are, Keystone Cop-ing it to make it appear that they actually amount to a fart in a tornado.