Sheriff Joe Arpaio need to lead a few screeners away in handcuffs and into his tent jail.
Strange. I just figured that in SF, pat downs were considered Speed Dating events.
So, is it acceptable to make sure ANY and ALL “pat downs”
Are filmed?
Can you insist on using your phone to record the happenings?
TO have evidence of assault?
Maybe I will fly commercial again but out of SFO from now on.
8 years ago I had a TSA midget pull my sweats open and just put his hands down my pants.
I said “Hey!” and jumped back.
He started babbling something incoherent and I said “I don’t have to take this flight then but you no right to do that, much less do it front of everyone!”.
Two San Jose PD were there and one guy said to the TSA “That’s a little to far” to the TSA midget.
He just spouted off something about his job and he can do it.
I said “Look dude, you are some power trip and I get, because you come a country where the government can do whatever they want. That ain’t gonna fly here, we have the right to object to our government”.
He said “I search you!”.
“Yeah, not if you do that again”. I said.
He then said “You want to fly, I search you”.
“Nope, I don’t think I will go today”.
One of the cops came off the wall and started towards the TSA midget and he said “Okay, okay. Go on”.
So I started walking to pick up my bags and he got a little excited saying something like “I say you fly. It okay!”.
Guess he saw the cop and didn’t want any part of him.
So I said “We are through here and I am free to fly?”.
“Go, Go!”
So I went on my merry way and I swear every time since then they have taken my matches from bars I visited, took extra searches on me, had me open my bags(which I put an end to by never having carry on), etc.
For some reason a couple of years later they quit singling me out.
The last time was on a trip from Seattle and I collect match books when I go places so I know where I went.
So get to the gate and the TSA guy, real nice guy from Oklahoma had me empty my pockets he said “You can’t take all those matches”.
“Dude. Do I look like a bomber to you? I’m from Oklahoma and if anything happens on that plane you can bet I will have that dog down before an Air Marshall gets close”.
He said he was from Kellyville and I told him brother graduated from high school there.
We had a laugh about soemthing or other, I can’t recall what it was. He tells me I can’t take more than 4 books of matches.
I tell him I went to a whole lot of places and I collect these things not to use but to remind where I went so I can go back.
So real nice guy he says “You okay with taking the covers and leaving the matches but you can keep four?”.
“Great idea!” I said as I started ripping the covers off all of them.
He says you can keep four and I tell him his job is hard enough, I’ll just take the covers from all these.
Thanks!
He said have a great day.
Personally, I thought that went about right and I walked away happy.