TSA: Years Of Watching Roadrunner Cartoons (Standing In For Actual Intelligence And Intelligence Training)
Photo tool confiscated by TSA geniuses, according to Reddit poster gynoceros:
@Debwilker tweet:
#TSA thinks photo equipment looks like a bomb. Yeah if ur education is cartoons
PetaPixel posts about a popular photographers' tool, pictured above -- the Giottos Rocket -- used to blow dust off cameras and glass.
Not surprisingly, the bright lights at the TSA confiscated one from Reddit user gynoceros, he says, at Newark Airport.
Over at Reddit, poster TomDLux has a helpful hint for fooling a bunny or those with TSA-level intelligence:
Always have a half-full water bottle in your camera bag. It gives them something to take away from you, and then they forget to keep looking. And if they miss it, you can enjoy some nice refreshing water.
Reddit poster invalid_font_size has another:
I used to do that to get lighters through when they were banned. I'd put two in the bin to get x-rayed, the one doofus on the monitor would yell "lighter" and the second doofus would stop looking through the bin after finding the first one.
This is security? Or a jobs program for unskilled workers and a get-rich program for Michael Chertoff and everyone else sucking off the teat of the "security" industry?
What gets me is how few people in Congress are willing to say anything at all about the TSA. There's a lot of fear there. Like the TSA has nekkid pictures of all of them. Oh wait, they probably do...
Cousin Dave at March 10, 2012 7:01 AM
The story of two lighters reminds me of a trip I took. I packed my carry on bag with a can of nuts and can of cola. I had intended to drink the cola before going through security. Needless to say I forgot.
So, at security I placed my carry on the conveyor for the x-ray. The x-ray person said something to bag search guy. The bag search guy seemed a little more officious than usual about searching my bag and I was puzzled. He found the can of nuts. Popped off the plastic lid looked inside and replaced the lid and sent me on my way. So, I figured the x-ray of the can of nuts was the source of the puzzling behavior.
When we got to the next airport where we were going to change planes I found my cola. I instantly knew what happened. The x-ray guy saw the cans, and said something about the cans to the bag searcher guy. When the bag searcher found the nuts he stopped his search, not realizing there were two cans in my bag.
Anyway, I freaked out, quickly drank my cola and ditched the can in the garbage. All the time fearing somebody was watching me on closed circuit TV and dispatching the local SWAT team. In which case I would miss my flight and probably cause everyone in the terminal to miss their flights when they would evactaute it because of my unauthorized can of cola. Fortunately, that did not happen.
I have experience in using radios in search and rescue. My training emphasized the importance of clear, concise and complete messages. Also I was trained not to edit a message given to me, but pass it on verbatim, no matter how silly it appeared. Evidently TSA screeners are not trained on the importance of clear, concise and complete communication. The x-rayer should have told to the bag searcher there were TWO cans. Either the x-ray person didn't say how many cans, or the bag searcher didn't pay attention when told.
bill o rights at March 10, 2012 9:35 AM
I was at my normal Waffle House last night at about 1AM. They know me anymore. The cook had been on since about 9PM and one of the waitresses had been on since about 2PM. One of the orders came out with the wrong sides. She apparently called it wrong.
My order had my hash browns scattered, smothered and covered. I didn't want it covered, so I mentioned it. I had heard the order go across, she had it right. The cook was off because he was swamped.
The waitress that had the issue asked the cook to call back the orders. I have to highly commend the waitress for stepping up to the plate.
I could deal with the covered. But the waitress asked the cook to start calling the order back so that she could confirm that
Jim P. at March 10, 2012 9:55 AM
No, the TSA is not a security program for the public's safety.
Storm Saxon's Gall Bladder at March 10, 2012 3:18 PM
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