If I can't drive there, I don't go there.
Posted on 06/30/2018 1:40:01 AM PDT by T-Bird45
They came for your laptops. And for your liquids, and your shoes. Now, the Transportation Security Administration is coming for your snacks. Passengers at airports around the country — including all three of the Washington region’s major airports — are reporting that, increasingly, TSA agents are instructing them to remove their snacks and other food items from their carry-ons and place them in those ubiquitous plastic bins for separate screening.
It’s not part of agency’s standard policy, according to TSA spokesman Mike England. It’s simply a recommendation issued by the agency last year to help speed the bag-check process. Screening supervisors at airports have the discretion to decide whether, and when, to demand passengers proffer up their pretzel packs for a solo trip through the X-ray machine.
But the “recommendation” appears to be gaining steam and moving rapidly into the territory of de-facto protocol, according to travelers who have received snack-related notices from their airlines, and who have been informed by rank-and-file TSA screeners that the snack checks are now standard practice.
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Thank goodness we don’t have to fly anymore.
More distortive media garbage.
Article implies snacks are being taken away, not allowed.
I would agree. The 1960s mentality of just driving cross-country seems to me to be the least stressful option, and more enjoyable.
Don’t fight any real foreign wars to decisive conclusion or put people in internment camps now. Gradually turn our country into a concentration camp, instead.
Not realizing that toothpaste was condidered a liquid, I went through 6 different flight screenings in as many countries in the past month with a large tube in my carry on when the 7th in Helsinki Finland caught it and made me dispose of it.
USA TSA Precheck is really great and worth the time to get if you travel at all. It’s far better than missing a flight.
The only point to this is to dehumanize the passengers. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if this was a response to the call to attack Trump supporters. Except liberal whackadoodles fly, too.
I flew back in 2/2018. Having a connection, and knowning there was the possiblity of delays, I had a sandwitch, some snack packs of cookies, and tubes of powdered water drink mixes.
The airport I was at had started this "enhanced" screening, and I had to put everything into individual trays. so ... laptop, digital camera + batteries and charging stuff, sandwich+cookies+drink mixes, backpack, jacket, and shoes.
6 trays!
Then, at the end, they pulled the trays of food stuff, and they swabbed the powdered drink mixes tubes, and the packages of cookies for explosive residue
Slowed everything down and added at least 10 minutes between putting things in trays, swabbing stuff, then repacking everything, not including the time in line.
Multiply this by the number of passengers, and the TSA will be demanding extra people be hired to work for the TSA to speed this up, and do kabuki theatre in the name of security.
And of course, they will be union members.
I’m definitely a fan of it.
I paid for five years of TSA Precheck and it is worth every penny. No taking off shoes, no separating liquids from carryon, no long line to wait in.
For me, 16 years ago: I drive where I want to go.
If the plane is to blown up, "they'll" find a way to do it.
Thanks George!
Just profile. Do what EL AL airlines does.
Our last flight, they removed a protein bar from my laptop case, intact in its wrapper, and scanned it in a machine of some sort.
I have done some flying but NEVER paid out of pocket for a ticket, it was either paid for by the government when I was in the Navy or by my employer afterwards. In 2007 I took my wife to Niagara Falls, something she had always wanted to see up close. We looked at the possibilities and I quickly realized that, because of flight schedules we would have to fly out of Myrtle Beach and by the time we got to Niagara Falls we could be over halfway there driving our own car. We loaded up the car and went, it was great, stop when you feel like it, no worries about baggage being lost or any of that craziness. I hope I never see the inside of an airplane again.
I hope to start taking actual road trips next year.
There is so much of my country that I’ve never seen.
I haven’t had to fly in a long time and have no desire to do so.
Profiling is so _____-ist.
Allowing plenty of time, my airport bus got caught in traffic and I frantically called the airline.
They told me "20 minutes, no problem, we can get you on in 10 if we have to." They were serious, I was ushered right into a speedy checkout line. My ID (showing I was a legal resident) was like gold. They save their profiling for the sort who genuinely look suspicious.
Reminds me of my visit to Israel five years ago. My wife and I went to a winery and received complimentary corkscrews. I threw them in my backpack and promptly forgot about them. They were still there when we boarded our Delta flight back to JFK. However, they were confiscated by the TSA when we went to board our connecting flight. Ben Gurion Airport, the world's most security conscious airport, knew I was no threat. But the mindless drones of the TSA knew otherwise.
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