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MineralMan wrote: And why do you suppose they took the ticket? They do that so they know whose bag it is. That makes sense, right?

If that's as far as it went,no problem.

But then the TSA guy went further and held on to the ticket to make the author think it was gone in order to 'teach him a lesson'.

I'm reasonably that there's nothing in the airport screener job description about teaching lessons to passenger

The TSA security man overstepped the limitss of his authority, pure and simple.

[MineralMan]

"But then the TSA guy went further and held on to the ticket to make the author think it was gone in order to 'teach him a lesson'.

I'm reasonably that there's nothing in the airport screener job description about teaching lessons to passenger

The TSA security man overstepped the limitss of his authority, pure and simple."

Piffle. The TSA guy temporarily held this idiot's ticket to demonstrate that leaving your bag unattended is a stupid thing to do. He returned it to the passenger, who boarded his plane.

Nobody was hurt, nobody missed a flight. One idiot who believed himself somehow above the law about unattended bags got a little object lesson in why bags should not be left unattended. He then got on his flight and went on his merry way.

Now, of course, he writes a one-sided account of the whole incident, maximizing the insult to his ego while, no doubt, minimizing his own complicity in what happened. Idiot.

He made his flight. He was inconvenienced only a little. Now he's whining. Poor baby.

[Labyrinthos]

The TSA security man overstepped the limitss of his authority, pure and simple.

Rather than trying to teach him a lesson, he should have just arrested him and thrown him in jail for the night.