TSA: Is That A Bomb In Your Coke...?
The morons at the airport in charge of our pretend security are now dipping something into travelers' drinks -- when they're well-past security. Janelle Ericsson reports at KJCT8 News, and Lisa Simeone blogged it at TSANewsBlog that passengers could be asked to let the TSA test their drink:
Yes, dear reader, that water or coffee or soft drink in your cup, the one you bought after you passed through the checkpoint, in the so-called sterile area? That could contain a bomb! And you didn't even know it!Thank heavens the TSA is here to save the day. As they dip their little Magic Bomb-Detecting Stick into your beverage, be sure to smile and thank them. After all, they're Keeping You Safe.
It's telling that this article from KJCT in Colorado has elicited, as of this writing, over 1,800 comments, most of them assailing the TSA for the idiocy of this policy, and many of them relating readers' stories of their own about having their drinks "tested." Yet compare that to the response when a story is published of people getting assaulted by the TSA. The outrage exhibited over the latter pales in comparison to that over the former.
"Strip me, grope me, abuse me, molest my children -- just don't touch my drink!"
Ah, ain't it grand living in the Land of the Free?
They want to charge me $6 for a Diet Coke, then put a god-knows-what-covered stick into it? Oh, hell no. I don't want to put anything in my mouth after it's been handled by the TSA. I haven't given head since 2003.
Beth Cartwright at July 6, 2012 8:13 AM
I am not a confrontational guy, but here I would draw the line. "No thanks, go buy your own drink."
Why do people get more upset about this? Because you cannot even pretend that it makes sense. After all, those drinks are already on the sterile side of the airport. If there's something "bad", it's not going to be poured into a cup for some passenger to drink. Simply beyond stupidity.
a_random_guy at July 6, 2012 8:44 AM
Ya know, it could be worse. The government could take over our health care industry.
Dave B at July 6, 2012 10:27 AM
Do the candidates hold Q&As anymore? Why aren't we hearing more questions like these?
President Obama, why are you allowing TSA VIPR searches on our highways and train stations? I cannot vote for a candidate that supports TSA's overreaching searches at the airports, or on our highways or at our rail stations.
Governor Romney, how do you feel about TSA sampling the beverages I buy at the airport? I cannot vote for a candidate that supports TSA's overreaching searches at the airports, or on our highways or at our rail stations.
(Avast, it's pirates. One day it will be pirates.)
jerry at July 6, 2012 11:51 AM
I was actually wondering the other day about what would happen if I got a doctor's prescription for Mountain Dew and tried to take that through TSA.
Elle at July 6, 2012 12:22 PM
I'd demand they either take a new stick out of a hermetically sealed container, and then waste after they did so waste their time asking why they are checking my idividual can rather than run random tests on the case my drink came from without bothering me as I finish off my drink. Then I'd throw thealmost empty can at them and wish them good luck
lujlp at July 6, 2012 1:15 PM
This is totally OK. After all, as Patrick says, the courts have ruled.
Although the silence, after I ask what means of travel is a right, is deafening.
Radwaste at July 6, 2012 3:40 PM
As they dip their little Magic Bomb-Detecting Stick into your beverage,...
- from Amy's soon-to-be-released novel: Fifty Shades of TSA
JD at July 6, 2012 5:45 PM
JD--I just spit water all over my computer screen, and out my nose--Fifty Shades of TSA? I'm laughing so hard I can't breathe!
dblynkpt at July 6, 2012 8:00 PM
JD wins Comment of the Week.
Crid [CridComment at gmail] at July 6, 2012 9:52 PM
Assuming a large majority are cups with lids, I wonder what would happen if I were to accidentally spill it on their uniform pants.
There really much they can do.
Jim P. at July 6, 2012 10:28 PM
You can stick whatever you want in my bottle of tea. It will cost you the same five bucks it cost me (for the same buck twenty five bottle outside the airport).
And the 'sterile' area thing is bullshit. I've seen how food and sodas are (NOT) inspected going from the non-sterile area past security. They go the 'wrong' way, waving at the guard at the podium. No scan, no x-ray, no sniffer, nothing.
At which airport you ask? Let's see, I've seen is at Tampa, Orlando, Pittsburgh, Miami, Atlanta...
DrCos at July 7, 2012 12:50 PM
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