Hiring The Mentally Handicapped
The TSA test for airport screeners is very...inclusive. According to an AP article by Leslie Miller, not only were screeners spoon-fed the answers in advance of the test, the answers were to ridiculously easy multiple-choice questions like this:
One question asked ''How do threats get aboard an aircraft?'' The possible answers were (a) In carry-on bags; (b) In checked-in bags; (c) In another person's bag; and (d) All of the above.
Of course, the correct answer is (d). Of course, if you can sound out the words in this blog posting, you're probably clever enough to figure that out without hours and hours of training. But are the TSA screeners hired via this test clever enough to find a bomb in somebody's luggage? Well, it probably helps if the terrorists put a big sign on the outside of the bag that says "bomb inside."