More Fun with the Goomers at TSA

[Revoltingest]

It's been a while since we've had TSA drama in the forums, so here's a new one....well, some of it is old.....

"Last fall, as he had done hundreds of times, Iranian-American businessman Farid Seif passed through security at a Houston airport and boarded an international flight. He didn't realize he had forgotten to remove the loaded snub nose "baby" Glock pistol from his computer bag. But TSA officers never noticed as his bag glided along the belt and was x-rayed. When he got to his hotel after the three-hour flight, he was shocked to discover the gun traveled unnoticed from Houston. "It's just impossible to miss it, you know. I mean, this is not a small gun," Seif told ABC News. "How can you miss it? You cannot miss it."

"According to one report, undercover TSA agents testing security at a Newark airport terminal on one day in 2006 found that TSA screeners failed to detect concealed bombs and guns 20 out of 22 times. A 2007 government audit leaked to USA Today revealed that undercover agents were successful slipping simulated explosives and bomb parts through Los Angeles's LAX airport in 50 out of 70 attempts, and at Chicago's O'Hare airport agents made 75 attempts and succeeded in getting through undetected 45 times."

Airport Security: Loaded Gun Slips Past TSA Screeners - ABC News

 

[angellous_evangellous]

It's been a while since we've had TSA drama in the forums, so here's a new one....

"Last fall, as he had done hundreds of times, Iranian-American businessman Farid Seif passed through security at a Houston airport and boarded an international flight. He didn't realize he had forgotten to remove the loaded snub nose "baby" Glock pistol from his computer bag. But TSA officers never noticed as his bag glided along the belt and was x-rayed. When he got to his hotel after the three-hour flight, he was shocked to discover the gun traveled unnoticed from Houston. "It's just impossible to miss it, you know. I mean, this is not a small gun," Seif told ABC News. "How can you miss it? You cannot miss it."

"According to one report, undercover TSA agents testing security at a Newark airport terminal on one day in 2006 found that TSA screeners failed to detect concealed bombs and guns 20 out of 22 times. A 2007 government audit leaked to USA Today revealed that undercover agents were successful slipping simulated explosives and bomb parts through Los Angeles's LAX airport in 50 out of 70 attempts, and at Chicago's O'Hare airport agents made 75 attempts and succeeded in getting through undetected 45 times."

Airport Security: Loaded Gun Slips Past TSA Screeners - ABC News

That's funny. I'd be darn glad that they didn't find the gun. He'd be in a world of ****.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Wait, so a bloated government bureaucracy staffed by semi-retarded, high school drop-outs isn't making us any safer?

 

[Alceste]

 

[Revoltingest]

TSA's embrace of technology draws questions

"The GAO has said that the TSA has "not conducted a risk assessment or cost-benefit analysis, or established quantifiable performance measures" on its new technologies. "As a result, TSA does not have assurance that its efforts are focused on the highest priority security needs."

This paragraph points out a fundamental problem with government run security - they skip the basic step of analyzing how best to do the job.
It's nothing more than exceedingly poor management running all the way to the top. TSA's Pistole cannot do his job & Obama doesn't see it.

 

[Revoltingest]

Suspect package holds up airport | theadvertiser.com | The Advertiser
"The airport was briefly shut down as authorities investigated a suspicious package that turned out to contain
a frozen chicken and a head lamp, said Lt. Craig Stansbury, spokesman for the Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office."

 

[angellous_evangellous]

Suspect package holds up airport | theadvertiser.com | The Advertiser
"The airport was briefly shut down as authorities investigated a suspicious package that turned out to contain
a frozen chicken and a head lamp, said Lt. Craig Stansbury, spokesman for the Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office."

There's got to be a funny story behind that.

 

[Terrywoodenpic]

Governments make laws and rules that suit their own prejudices and preconceived positions.
They do not seek advice or factual analysis because it would show them to be inadequate.

The least qualified to govern do so, as their opinions are closest to the lowest common denominator. Our various electoral processes guarantee this will continue.

 

[linwood]

That`s priceless...

 

[Revoltingest]

Woman arrested at ABIA after refusing enhanced pat down | kvue.com | Austin, Texas News | KVUE | Austin, TX | Breaking News

Claire Hirschkind, 56, who says she is a rape victim and who has a pacemaker-type device implanted in her chest, says her constitutional rights were violated. She says she never broke any laws. But the Transportation Security Administration disagrees.
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"I can't go through because I have the equivalent of a pacemaker in me," she said.
Hirschkind said because of the device in her body, she was led to a female TSA employee and three Austin police officers. She says she was told she was going to be patted down.
"I turned to the police officer and said, 'I have given no due cause to give up my constitutional rights. You can wand me,'" and they said, 'No, you have to do this,'" she said.
Hirschkind agreed to the pat down, but on one condition.
"I told them, 'No, I'm not going to have my breasts felt,' and she said, 'Yes, you are,'" said Hirschkind.
When Hirschkind refused, she says that "the police actually pushed me to the floor, (and) handcuffed me. I was crying by then. They drug me 25 yards across the floor in front of the whole security."

 

[dust1n]

Trust me, if the airports and airliners in this country were generally concerned with the TSA and the security measures put in to place, they would use their billions to fight it. So if an airport chooses to operate as it does, then the consumer should be just fine with that. If not, they can use another airport. =D

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Trust me, if the airports and airliners in this country were generally concerned with the TSA and the security measures put in to place, they would use their billions to fight it. So if an airport chooses to operate as it does, then the consumer should be just fine with that. If not, they can use another airport. =D

Oh, I see that you're under the naive assumption that the airports and airlines are run by people more intelligent than the functionally retarded people who run the TSA. How adorable.

 

[Revoltingest]

Oh, I see that you're under the naive assumption that the airports and airlines are run by people more intelligent than the functionally retarded people who run the TSA. How adorable.

Of course they're smarter. They didn't have to settle for civil service jobs.

 

[Reverend Rick]

Of course they're smarter. They didn't have to settle for civil service jobs.

I just have to go there.... :sorry1:

If the caliber of TSA employees is an indication of the unemployed 10% out there, where one in five who apply find a job, I can only imagine what the failed applicants look like.

 

[Requia]

Applying to the TSA is a bit of a nightmare if you got laid off. You have to have work numbers for your references (and they apparently actually check them, instead of just claiming that they checked them the way temp agencies do), and if your boss got laid off when you did, you don''t have that.

 

[Bismillah]

LOL!

 

[dust1n]

Oh, I see that you're under the naive assumption that the airports and airlines are run by people more intelligent than the functionally retarded people who run the TSA. How adorable.

I don't think they are more intelligent, but they are rich enough to lobby for all sorts of things.

 

[Revoltingest]

Florida Professor Arrested for Having a "Suspicious" Bagel on a Plane | NBC Miami

 

[linwood]

Florida Professor Arrested for Having a "Suspicious" Bagel on a Plane | NBC Miami

I`m taking the train from now on.

This is ridiculous.

 

[Revoltingest]

OK, it's border security instead, but still an amazing focus on the trivial....
Woman's candy egg seized at border - Yahoo! News

"It's just a chocolate egg," Bird said. "And they were making a big deal. They said 'if you were caught with this across the border you would get charged a $300 fine,'" she said.
"It's ridiculous. It's so ridiculous," she added.