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TSA Tries to Pat Down Man After His Flight, Watch Him Refuse
benswann.com ^ | Sept 12, 2014 | Barry Donegan

Posted on 09/13/2014 5:36:34 PM PDT by BulletBobCo

Last Saturday, Kahler Nygard took a Spirit Airlines flight to Denver to visit with friends. When he departed from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, Transportation Security Administration agents patted him down and allowed him to board his flight. When the plane landed, he was singled out and ordered to exit before the other passengers. After he exited the aircraft, TSA agents approached Nygard and demanded that he go through an additional pat-down and a screening of his luggage for explosive materials.

He had already arrived safely at his destination in Denver and simply wanted to leave the airport. After an argument, which can be seen in the above video, Nygard refused the pat-down, despite the fact that TSA agents claimed that he would be arrested if he did not comply, and exited the airport without incident. According to KMSP-TV Fox 9 News, Nygard flew back to Minnesota yesterday without any complications.

KUSA-TV notes that Nygard indicated that he knew that he had been placed on the FBI’s “no fly” list around three years ago, despite not being told why, and took the flight to Denver in an effort to see if he was still on the list. However, he was apparently downgraded to a lower-level watch list that labeled him as a “Quad S” passenger. Passengers carrying the label “SSSS” on their boarding pass are forced to undergo additional scrutiny during TSA pre-flight screenings. Nygard says he believes he was placed on the list because he posted on anti-government websites, but describes his own advocacy as being against government corruption, rather than the government itself.

The plot thickened when TSA agents working at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport started forgetting the extra checks on Quad S passengers.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: noflylist; quads; trapervs; tsa; tsapatdown; tsapervs
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To: exit82

They treat passengers like crap now. I try not to fund their rmployment.


41 posted on 09/13/2014 6:59:44 PM PDT by MtnClimber (Take a look at my FR home page for Colorado outdoor photos!)
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To: exit82
I can remember when stewardesses were actually attractive.

Oh, for the old Southwest Airlines days......sigh

42 posted on 09/13/2014 6:59:59 PM PDT by llevrok (Straight. Since 1950.)
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To: PLMerite

you get a boarding pass at the check in que, then check you bags with the agent


43 posted on 09/13/2014 7:01:30 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: BulletBobCo

Thanks W for the TSA!

Right?


44 posted on 09/13/2014 7:01:36 PM PDT by NoLibZone (The bad news: Hillary Clinton will be the next President. The Good news: Our principles are intact.)
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To: BulletBobCo

Maybe the airlines should be run like a business again, not an ‘arm’ of the Government.

Let the airlines set policies, have competitive prices, let the Airports be Private also.

If forced to be competitive the airlines would individually have to vie for customers and they will charge what they feel they HAVE to charge to make a buck.

The Govt runs a ‘one size fits all’ and are more worried about hurting someone feelings than the safety etc of the passengers and crew.


45 posted on 09/13/2014 7:16:18 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98) If you can't convince them, confuse them.)
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To: Dallas59

46 posted on 09/13/2014 7:16:57 PM PDT by lightman (O Lord, save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance, giving to Thy Church vict'ry o'er Her enemies.)
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To: Billthedrill

“Fortunately, I have never posted to a website that is critical of the government.”

That’s very good of you. It shows great restraint not to call the present alphabet soup agencies and administration something like “M#%$^%$-F#%$^&** A$#%^*^% scum sucking douche-bags.”

We would NEVER want someone to think that we would expect that those that lord over - I mean - benevolently look out for us to actually know and follow the constitution!!!


47 posted on 09/13/2014 7:17:52 PM PDT by Texaspeptoman (Even cannibals get fed-up with people sometimes...!)
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To: exit82
I can remember when stewardesses were actually attractive.

My wife and I use to frequently fly PSA on the west coast in the 1970s (different airline than the current PSA Airlines). The stewardesses were beautiful, and wore attractive outfits including hot pants. Always smiling and friendly, and would have friendly conversations with passengers. It truly was a joy to fly back then.

48 posted on 09/13/2014 7:21:17 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: Chode

My government contractor company screwed up my expense report payments for travel for many months and I could not get it resolved from a remote location. The way I had to book travel immediately after that (other employees booking my travel and expensing reports since my company credit card got cancelled) got me put on the SSSS watch list even though all of my travel was for government contracts. I got detained every flight for several years after that, but always got to board the flight. I got detained when traveling with my wife to visit her parents in Jakarta, Indonesia. I got detained leaving Jakarta and then I got detained trying to leave Tokyo, Japan. I really did not know if I would get home as these “security” forces treated me like a terrorist. I doubt any TSA incident news reports.


49 posted on 09/13/2014 7:24:57 PM PDT by MtnClimber (Take a look at my FR home page for Colorado outdoor photos!)
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To: Cboldt

When I flyby myself I have no problems getting through TSA and security. When Hubby flies with me we get pulled for the full Monty every single time. They flag us at check in. Someone told me once that it is his military record. Have no clue why but it happens every time.


50 posted on 09/13/2014 7:54:24 PM PDT by sheana
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To: MtnClimber

When I say I was detained in Jakarta and Tokyo, I am not saying delays at the gate, I mean taken to a cell.


51 posted on 09/13/2014 8:04:42 PM PDT by MtnClimber (Take a look at my FR home page for Colorado outdoor photos!)
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To: PLMerite
yeah that's true,,,
52 posted on 09/13/2014 8:05:30 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: morphing libertarian

I bet we have a couple “Quad S” listers here.


53 posted on 09/13/2014 8:11:47 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: BulletBobCo

>>Individuals known to pose a threat to aviation who are on this list will not be issued a boarding pass and are not allowed to fly.<<

That infers that no Mohammedan is allowed to fly on a commercial aircraft. Right?


54 posted on 09/13/2014 8:13:22 PM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: Texaspeptoman
Well, exactly! Far be it from me to suggest that the feckless, ridiculous, unqualified, incompetent halfwit now infesting the White House like a bad case of dry rot is anything but a stellar individual. Or that, as another FReeper pointed out, in the richest country in world history children are going hungry because of the crackpot opinions of his unelected, elephantine spouse who herself eats like a Budweiser Clydesdale. Or that his administration consists of the most sordid and tawdry collection of ward heelers and sycophants since the last Ottoman pasha had his sewed into a sack and drowned like the filthy, disease-ridden rodents they were.

I could think these things, of course, but I would never post them to the Internet.

55 posted on 09/13/2014 8:16:52 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: MtnClimber
ihre ausweis bitte...
56 posted on 09/13/2014 8:18:18 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Yea...it dates me too. I’m and old retired has been I guess. But it sure seems those times were awfully good. I guess all us old buzzards are like hat!!!


57 posted on 09/13/2014 8:23:22 PM PDT by ontap
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To: Rodamala

Indeed

Maybe all of us


58 posted on 09/13/2014 8:27:41 PM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: Billthedrill

Fortunately???

If the government 4 S’d everybody that was critical of them the airlines would have to file Chapter 7 !!!

My guess is no one on FR has been 4 S’d.

As cocky as this guy was I also wonder if he doesn’t have some “friends” over-seas or “something” that got him on the 4 S list.

I personally have to fly frequently and I am glad the TSA is trying, with limited talent, to keep the 72 virgin seekers from blowing up my plane!!!


59 posted on 09/13/2014 8:33:14 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid!)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

It’s still kinda fun for me, as long as I can sit next to a window.

The most trouble I ever had with the TSA was when they confiscated a glass jar of SC peaches from my carry-on at Greenville. She mentioned something, I think, about their possible explosiveness at altitude. I tried to give them to the female agent, but she told me she wasn’t allowed to receive gifts.

“What’ll happen to them?” I asked, to which she told me they’d be put into the “general inventory”.

Immediately the end of “Raiders Of The Lost Ark” came to mind.


60 posted on 09/13/2014 8:47:46 PM PDT by onedoug
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