I'm a gramma in my 70's and was not allowed to bring a factory wrapped box of tube watercolors on board...each tube 1/4 oz.
Yep - nothing to see here. Move along....
What does it take to be “terrorism-related” exactly, I wonder?
If the box cutters had been discovered on 09/11, technically it would not have been terror related either. And yet, the results were ....
Riiiiight. Completely skipping over the fact that one of them made it all the way THROUGH their "multiple layers of security."
Well, thank goodness that the man was not traveling alone, because the first 'layer' completely missed the box cutter the first time around!! SHEESH!
TSA #1: Holy Smokes! Joe! Get over here! This guy is trying to on this plane with a bunch of knives!
TSA #2: Jeez! It's good you found them! Who is this guy?
TSA #1: He says his name is Chhaganbhai Patel.
TSA #2: Well, I can tell you one thing -- and you know what I'm gonna say ...
Both: It's not terror-related!
‘Shakarabhai Patel, 64, who was traveling with Chhaganbhai Patel had already made it through security and onto the flight, which was bound for New York and then to India. Officials did not immediately indicate the relationship between the two men.’
Unusual surnames not withstanding, huh?
(eyes rolling)
Oh yeah, nothing here that would cause TSA to think terrorism. Lots of cash. Weapons. International flight to India. Nope, nothing weird here.
Now if they had been carrying nail clippers and breast milk, THAT would have been strip search time. /unfotunately no sarc
“Mr. Patel, what kind of motel you gents run in New York that you need to pack all them razor blades?”
Pakastanis?
Ping.
Why would anyone put razor blades in a toy car if they didn’t want to hide them?
I don’t buy it.
Not terror related!! Razor blades hidden in a toy!! A box cutter on a plane. What “authorities” ruled out terrorism. We need names on that kind of idiotic statement.
This past week my cousin and I returned to Dulles from a vacation in China. At IAD, she was traveling, one way, to TPA, so that immediately caused her to be selected for a special security search.
The “special” line, at 7:20 am, was very long. In fact, a young Caucasian gal (about 25 yrs. old) missed her 8 am flight because of the long line. I saw men and women, mostly Caucasian, in that 45 minute long line, ranging in age from what appeared to be 25 to 80 yrs old. Why oh why can’t we profile somewhat and avoid the inconvenience?
In another security line, I noticed a Middle Eastern TPA worker wearing a turban, and in charge of watching the Xray monitors as passengers’ baggage went through the belt.
???????
Those pesky Amish people.
Chhaganbhai Patel? Damn Swedes!
I can hear the islam death cult now......
Dear American People, please go back to sleep. You make it too difficult to kill you......(whine, moan, whine.....)
I'm a gramma in my 70's and was not allowed to bring a factory wrapped box of tube watercolors on board...each tube 1/4 oz.
Yep - nothing to see here. Move along....
The morons at TSA strike again! I couldn’t take back a bottle of friggin Bar B Q sauce after a recent trip to Houston, but knives and razor blades make in on fine. The lying government should just admit that the TSA is a TOTAL JOKE and that we are no safer now than we were on 9/10/01. The TSA is staffed by complete idiots who wouldn’t recognize a genuine threat if it carried a neon sign.
just an isolated incident