I just heard this in the past few days. I heard about a minor who was on vacation playing all week with fireworks. He had them in his backpack while running around the woods. His mom wakes him up at 4 am when they went to leave for home and says get packed. We need to get out the door. He just grabs his crap and stuffs it in his backpack. Also in there was one of the jell candies. They come in what looks like an hotel shampoo container. Anyway, going through X-ray his backpack is pulled because they saw something. He said he then remembered all his fireworks. He paniced and wondered if he should speak up. He didn't. He watched the TSA gal dig into his pack, he saw the bottle rockets sticking up and other stuff coming into view. She grabs that jell candy and said he shouldn't have it but since he was a kid, she tossed it to him. Wow, feel safe at security?
Another humor. My daughter's boyfriend and brother were flying yesterday. His brother get pulled into the full body scan machine. He looked at the TSA guy and said, this first look is free. He got really pissed.
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I guess you get what you pay for...those TSA robots at the security check-in are not the brightest bulbs on the string. Especially is that true after 6 or 7 hours of rootin' thru people's BVD's, being forced to pat down uncooperative and/or stupid people at
various levels of 'personal hygiene' proficiency, viewing people's bodies on those scanners (Who wants to examine the orifices of fat middle aged people ? ), and scanning hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of bags of luggage ?
I don't blame TSA trogs for what they are forced to do to keep their jobs. Like all federal employees, they'd be more content to sit and watch tv on the taxpayer's dime but that's not in the cards. Be more pissed off at the government that mandates this sort of garbage at the expense of profiling REAL potential threats. I fly often enough that I know the routine and I do not begrudge the TSA people the execution of their duty. In a different world, they'd not be necessary. Y'know...a world where the taliban is not our enemy, and we are not at war with islamist terrorists....
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