Just co-operate with security, OK folks? I went through
Logan security in June when I flew Jet Blue to Long Beach CA.
They pulled me aside for a moment because there was something amiss with my carry-on. I was calm with them, etc., and we
finally discovered it was a package of chewable Pepto-Bismol
tablets (30 pack) which somehow had alarmed them. Zipped
up my carry on again and we were good to go. I may have
told them I was glad they were doing their job because
my own job is affected by terrorism too: I work for
the postal service (two USPS employees died in
anthrax attacks, and the USPS is doing what it can
to protect us and the public from any such threat).
I was calm and co-operative and I’m glad they do their job.
THIS guy on the other hand...
meanwhile via General/Chat (airport rage—missed her
flight?—leads to accidental strangulation)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1904864/posts
The daughter-in-law of one of New York’s top officials screamed, “I’m not a terrorist!” and fought with security officials in the Phoenix airport before being wrestled to the ground and handcuffed, witnesses told the Daily News yesterday.
Carol Anne Gotbaum, 45, of the upper West Side, died less than an hour later, after cops claim she apparently strangled herself while trying to escape from the handcuffs in a holding cell at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.
“I’m not a terrorist! I’m a sick mom! I need help!” yelled the mother of three after she missed the 2:58 p.m. US Airways Express flight to Tucson, said airport workers who witnessed the confrontation Friday.
They said one cop put his knee in her back to restrain her while others grabbed her flailing arms.
“I believe she was a little not-there. She kept punching. She kept screaming. She kept kicking,” one worker told The News. “She looked really scared, really frightened. I think she was afraid to go to jail.”
“Just co-operate with security, OK folks?”
Agreed! My bangle bracelet set off the alarm and it took awhile to figure it out. It is made of chrome. It was surprising to think that particular substance would alert. Also, because I had no idea the bracelet was chrome.
The TSA has a lot of people to screen and some idiot who thinks their time is more important that anyone else’s can really bring things to a halt.