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TSA agent charged for harassing motorist
WFSB ^
Posted on 07/27/2011 4:00:37 PM PDT by matt04
SOUTH WINDSOR, CT (WFSB) -
An off-duty Transportation Security Administration agent was issued a summons for harassing a female motorist he thought was driving too slow, South Windsor police said.
Police said, on Tuesday morning the woman called 911 to report that a man was following her car too closely on Sullivan Avenue and flashing a badge at her.
Police kept the woman on her cell phone and caught up to Donald Eichler, 63, of South Windsor, who told police he was upset that the woman was driving slightly below the posted speed limit. He told police that he honked his horn and showed her his badge to get her to speed up.
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Eichler says, he notified his bosses who told him to keep them posted.
"I just wanted her to do the speed limit. I had people crawling up my back, beeping their horns I mean what can I do? I wasn't trying to be a policeman," he said.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: southwindsor; tsa; tsapervs
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Eichler says, he notified his bosses who told him to keep them posted. Why do I have this feeling that, a simple "re-training" talk will be all he gets, ready to grope another day.
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posted on
07/27/2011 4:00:47 PM PDT
by
matt04
To: matt04
He’s just doing the public harasser job he was trained to do.
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posted on
07/27/2011 4:03:25 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: matt04
Someone needs to do a FOIA act to find out the number of arrests for TSA offenders, and compare their ratio to that of the general population.
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posted on
07/27/2011 4:03:31 PM PDT
by
Psalm 144
(Voodoo Republicans: Don't read their lips - watch their hands.)
To: matt04
"I wasn't trying to be a policeman"
Nope, he WAS being a policeman.
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posted on
07/27/2011 4:05:02 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: matt04
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posted on
07/27/2011 4:05:15 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: matt04
Just give him an M-4 and offer him a nighttime job as a traffic cop.
After all, he's government so he has to be safe.
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posted on
07/27/2011 4:07:45 PM PDT
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: matt04
He was just in a hurry to get to work so he could fix his junk habit.
To: matt04
Oh well, back to the car wash...
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posted on
07/27/2011 4:10:48 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
($1.8 tril yearly deficits = $18 tril in ten years. So now we're proposing $4 tril in cuts? Really?)
To: matt04
"I just wanted her to do the speed limit. I had people crawling up my back, beeping their horns I mean what can I do? I wasn't trying to be a policeman," he said. No, what you did was, far, far worse than that.
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posted on
07/27/2011 4:11:57 PM PDT
by
Talisker
(History will show the Illuminati won the ultimate Darwin Award.)
To: matt04
If he wasn’t trying to be a policeman why was he flashing his badge?
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posted on
07/27/2011 4:13:51 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
(You know, they invented wheelbarrows to teach government employees how to walk on their hind legs.)
To: SkyDancer
"..why was he flashing his badge?"
He's probably used to flashing the junk he carries around.
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posted on
07/27/2011 4:21:07 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: matt04
If he were just trying to pull her over for a strip search, would that have been okay?
To: Paladin2
Should have waved a stale doughnut. That’d give cause to arrest him impersonating a cop.
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posted on
07/27/2011 4:23:47 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
(You know, they invented wheelbarrows to teach government employees how to walk on their hind legs.)
To: Paladin2
Somebody tailgates me,,,, I slow down! But I drive at the speed limit. My town is a speed trap.
To: matt04
Eichler seems to be unfit for discharging his duties in a reasonable manner.
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posted on
07/27/2011 4:25:17 PM PDT
by
YHAOS
(you betcha!)
To: matt04
...he was upset that the woman was driving slightly below the posted speed limit. Someone needs to remind him that the posted speed is an UPPER limit, not a lower one.
-PJ
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posted on
07/27/2011 4:26:57 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(Everyone's Irish on St. Patrick's Day, Mexican on Cinco de Mayo, and American on Election Day.)
To: matt04
Police said TSA agents do not have local police powers.
This is what makes the proper charge impersonating a police officer.
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posted on
07/27/2011 4:28:51 PM PDT
by
apastron
(I miss the good old days - when bankers just jumped out of a window...)
To: matt04
To: matt04
Where do they get these rejects from? That guy was a Idiot and should be fired.
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posted on
07/27/2011 4:31:14 PM PDT
by
Cheetahcat
( November 4 2008 ,A date that will live in Infamy.)
To: matt04
OK, lady, put your hands on the car and spread ‘em. I’m from the TSA and I’m going to feel you up.
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posted on
07/27/2011 4:33:37 PM PDT
by
jmax
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