Posted on 01/17/2020 7:54:02 AM PST by Michael.SF.
The agent said she needed to pat down my braids. She pulled them behind my shoulders, laughed [and] said ‘giddy up!’ as she snapped my braids like reins,” Houska told her 32,000 Twitter followers. “My hair is part of my spirit. I am a Native woman. I am angry, humiliated. Your 'fun' hurt."
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Who are just following orders.
Me, I'll never encounter a TSA agent on the job because I wouldn't go near their ring of influence if you paid me hugely. If I met one socially I'd have a hard time and would make it short.
Best BOL reply of the day!
“It might be safe to say that most women don’t appreciate the phrase “giddy up” in any context.”
It all depends upon the cowboy.
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“The agent said she needed to pat down my braids. She pulled them behind my shoulders, laughed [and] said ‘giddy up!’ as she snapped my braids like reins,”
Is this TSA agent a relative of Joe Biden?
I pull a Native American by the hair most nights....
Or used to anyhow
Partial /s
It’s the recruitment pool
Newark has always been rude
Dang girl
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Well done
Strangely enough we have a good friend who is a supervisor at the TSA, and have been told the most outrageous stories by that person. But we have had plenty of nonsensical encounters over the years ourselves and my little brother is an airline pilot with lots of entertaining stories. I am glad that you have had good experiences with them, but if you think that they have a hard or difficult job... that is almost a joke.
The TSA mostly is a feel good exercise to maintan the public's confidence in air travel. But as far as fulfilling its stated goals it is a huge waste of money and time. When tests are performed to see if an actual “terrorist” can get past them, they are successful at stopping them about 10% of the time. You don't have to believe me, you can look it up.
Why? Because they are not allowed to “profile” which means they waste the same amount of time searching your 89 year old grandmother as they do on Muhammad the 22 year old from Somalia. And in fact most of the people they pull aside to do strip searches on are middle aged white people who look like they won't complain. This is because not one of them will get in trouble if an airliner crashes because Muhammad and his buddy slit the throats of the pilots with plastic cutlery, but they can get fired if they insult a brother by asking him to take off his “Jordans”.
I have no bone to pick with any individual TSA employee, but it is a massive inefficient and nearly worthless government run boondoggle. And that is a fact.
It really doesn’t matter that the lady is American Indian...
What matters is the lack of professionalism shown by the employee of the TSA...They have an extremely important job to do and it should be done seriously and professional...
The TSA requirements for this job should be reviewed and made as stringent as possible...
Their past failures at tests show that they are not as competent as should be required...
The safety of hundreds of people on each flight IS their responsibility...
My wife has a good idea she hopes to perfect one day and sell to the government. She says the TSA ought to have steel re-enforced concrete enlosures that people walk through one at a time. When you are inside they expose you to a signal that detonates all explosive materials. If the person blows up, they hose the remains into a heavy duty drainage system and keep the line moving. If you are in a hurry you could use the “express line” where you go into the enclosure with 5 other travellers.
I’m not a snowflake, but that would piss ME off. TSA is a detriment to society.
I get that they are trying to lighten the mood, but an offhand joke by a passenger could lead to a strip-search. Those TSA people should not be "joking around" with people they have complete control over.
Lawsuit Lotto.
You live up to your name, FRiend. ;)
Pony tail or pig tails...
It is certainly resonable to wiggle brains in a “giddy up” fashion to determine if there is any wiring or such hidden in them that would be missed in a pat down. I’m going to err on the side of the TSA woman trying to lighten the encounter especially if the passenger was getting up tight. Can’t go through life grumpy 24/7. Has she ever cracked a joke at her work? Next flight, make it easier going through the line by wearing that spirit hair down.
It’s her “spirit” just because she’s Native American? Snort, the closest thing to a spirit is her hair is nothing but dead cells being sloughed off.
Enough with all this racial/gender crap. Ooh, as a Native American, blah, blah, blah. Ooh, as a person of color, blah, blah, blah. Ooh, as a brave transgender, blah, blah, blah.
BTW, I have long hair and sometimes people can’t contain themselves and touch it on the sly. I don’t rush to the nearest headline over it.
More mystical mumbo-jumbo. Spare us the "Dances with Wolves" bilge.
Really? You’re a hypocrite. I’d love to see you’re response if someone did this to someone you cared about. If it wasn’t outrage-you’re not worth talking too as a patriot.
Big squaw have no sense of humor.
I quit commercial flights back in 1996, after TWA 800 was shot down.
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