Orwellspeak Is TSA Language
That stuff they lift from your carry-on and your luggage (because your contact lens solution, not in a baggie, could be a bomb) they call "Voluntarily Abandoned Property."
The blogger at MinuteMenNews writes:
I am a simple man and believe words mean things.When the TSA tells you to leave something you own behind or you can't get on the plane, that's not exactly "voluntary" in my book. Kind of sounds like blackmail, but that's just me. When I'm told if I don't leave it, I can't get on the plane, I wouldn't consider myself "abandoning" that item because you usually abandon something you don't want.
It was my "property" but after I "voluntarily abandon" it, where exactly does it go? Well, according to TSA Management Directive No. 200.52,
"VAP deposited in collection bins shall not be recovered by, and will not be returned to, passengers. Upon voluntary abandonment of the prohibited item, the item immediately becomes the property of the Federal Government."
Given the lack of protest, the TSA may be correct.
Voluntarily unexercised rights.
jerry at April 7, 2013 10:40 PM
If it's worth anything, they sell it.
It's theft, pure and simple. If TSA (or the airports or airlines) actually cared about customer satisfaction, they would offer a service - right at the security line - where you could mail your possessions to yourself rather than "giving" them to the TSA.
a_random_guy at April 8, 2013 12:53 AM
Butbutbut... 100% scrreeeening!
Don't you realize that serving the customers would aid Al-queda?
Sending personal property to people means fewer hands on minors, and more bombs could get on planes in Hello Kitty underwear!
Radwaste at April 8, 2013 3:14 AM
arg, the link for my state (CT) is broken.
Which figures. The whole state is broken.
Flynne at April 8, 2013 6:27 AM
"Upon voluntary abandonment of the prohibited item, the item immediately becomes the property of the Federal Government."
I guess I know how to get rid of all my pesky liquid toxic wastes now...
kenmce at April 8, 2013 4:45 PM
If TSA (or the airports or airlines) actually cared about customer satisfaction, they would offer a service - right at the security line - where you could mail your possessions to yourself rather than "giving" them to the TSA.
You CAN mail stuff back to yourself. We recently did that with a pocket knife. But it takes time to go through the process, and people are usually in a hurry at the airport.
The TSA can still go to hell.
MonicaP at April 8, 2013 4:56 PM
Thank you. But I wanted to carry less than a shot glass worth of liquid medicine through security. I didn't want the medicine to go through an X-Ray machine. I was then deemed to be opting out. I was sent through the magnetometer, porno scanner and a grope. The vial was run by the sniffer. I can't mail the medicine.
On the outbound flight the response to no X-Ray for the same vial was "Why not?" with the answer "X-Rays can damage the medicine." And the response "I didn't know that," from the TSA agent.
FUCK THE TSA!!
I'm ex-military. Any current or former member knows how to spot the bullshit checkboxing vs a valid check. You walk up to a truly secure area for the first time and they ask for a two I.D. crosscheck. After that you are "blessed". If they look at nitnoids you know it is bullshit.
There are so many examples that can be named it is disgusting.
Thoroughly agreed.
Jim P. at April 8, 2013 8:31 PM
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