delayed by TSA

the TSA peopple don't have any sense of humor, they are people doing
their job just following orders given to them by the people we sent to
washington to supposedly represent our best intersts...

no security is going to be 100% perfect. At least what we have now could
be more user friendly...

one can put enough of a substance to do damage in a tea bag and put the
tea bag in their pocket, and matches in another pocket and this WILL NOT
be detected. By no means am I saying do this, I am just pointing out
that the system we have now is flawed and not perfect.

Anybody who does something like the shoe bomb guy (Richard Reid) should
not be jailed, but should be taken someplace and shot for trying to
endanger the lives of all those on the aircraft.

Nah, congressmen and senators represent the interests of who send them
to the best resorts or in some ways puts more money into their campaign
funds.

the TSA should have a sense of humor, obviously there are things not to
say don't mention "bomb", "explosive", or "plastic explosive" use
"energetic materials" instead as that sound smore politically correct.

say something like "we gotta make sure your feet don't smell". or "I
need to inspect your socks today" put people at ease yet still do their
job make the experience less painful.

anyways on a humoerous note I handed someone a folded note with the word
BOMBS on the outside, and inside was an American Flag and under the flag
the words Bring Our Military (men) Back Safely.

person looked at that smiled at me and gave me a thumbs up.

DevilsPGD wrote:
> In message "Mr. Travel"
> wrote:
>
>
>>We agree that you are an idiot for believing you would be able to fight
>>the battle at the security screening station.
>
>
> No, he's an idiot for posting it but not doing it.
>
> If he pulled out a knife after was through security and made an issue of
> it, he wouldn't be boasting here, he'd be boasting in the media (or
> through his lawyer, depending on how much of a sense of humour the TSA
> has. Try it and find out!)

scabbardgirl wrote:

> Shawn Hirn wrote:
>
>> In article ,
>> "Bill Burk" wrote:
>>
>>> The one I've liked best to date (and I think TSA is a joke) ... is a
>>> crippled friend of mine who wears leg braces and walks with
>>> hollowed-aluminum crutches.
>>>
>>> They made her take off her SHOES ... but never checked the crutches.
>>> Being hollowed out like that, she could have packed them with all
>>> kinds of explosives.
>>
>>
>> I have a friend who is in a similar situation. We flew to LAS from PHL
>> last year and he went through the same shoe search everyone else did.
>> The idiot TSA folks wouldn't give him a chair so he could sit down and
>> remove his shoes (which is a necessity for this person), so I grabbed
>> one from nearby for him. I don't mind the TSA doing their job, but
>> they can be polite about it. My friend was not at all belligerent and
>> letting him sit so he could take off his shoes is hardly a threat to
>> security.
>
>
> I went through that scenario last week. I flew for the first time since
> I broke my leg. I've got a walking boot, equipped with metal bars on
> the sides to change the angle of bend I can have, and use a nice metal
> cane. I knew that I'd get hit up for the bigger wanding and stuff, so I
> was ready for that. I wore a sheepskin boot on the other foot. In SLC,
> when I approached the "puffer" station, I asked the TSA person if I
> could leave my boot on, since I was going to get checked anyway. She
> asked her supervisor, and they agreed I could leave it on. They gave me
> a chair to sit on during the check. On the way back from my trip, in
> YYC, I wore the same boot and asked the same question. Nope, I was
> required to take off my boot. Then, after beeping through the
> magnetometer, I was taken off to the wanding station, and no chair
> offered. My cane wasn't checked, just wanded. Of course, it's going to
> beep!
> With all the hardware now in my leg, I guess I get to look forward to
> the "shoe on/off" guessing game from now on when I fly. At least I
> don't have to worry about belts and watches and stuff now - I'll beep
> anyway.

You might try asking them to call for a wheel chair when they ask you to
take the boot off in line.