[ARCHIVED THREAD] - TSA... (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 9/25/2010 8:11:49 PM EDT
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Do you think we are safer when we fly because some retard rummages through your bag with their fat fingers and leaves a nice note saying your stuff had been gone through? How about the guys who sample your bottled water in the terminal and test it for explosives? Feel better?
When we flew back from providence I was picked for the puffer and all. Had my sunglasses wiped to check for explosive residues. Wife was holding both tickets. The security guy got my ticket from her so I could leave the the security area, but because I did not pass all checks the first time, I had to go all the way back through all checks. Any TSA stories or thoughts? |
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I've heard of TSA agents here in Chicago scrutinizing and embarrassing 14 year old girls with prosthetic legs who are traveling with their school choirs.
No horror stories here outside of my sister's purse at MSP warranting a second look because she had pepper spray in it. I don't know if I feel any safer though. At MDW and ORD the TSA people seem to have a real attitude. When I was at MSP they seemed decent enough. Appropriate music for this thread |
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It's an expensive sheeple comforting thing. Not really useful. Yep. Especially when they just wave through the people most likely to commit an act, because they don't want to be sued for profiling... but they hassle 80 year old ladies and 14 year olds who lost their legs due to cancer when they were 2. |
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TSA spent 50 minutes going through my laptop bag after they decided to remove everything and in the process dropped a spare cell battery in between the pocket pleats. 11 personnel and more than 20 passes through the Xray machine before one of them finally found the battery they dropped.
I have found U.S. Customs to be far more professional and easier to work with. |
| Like all jobs, they like to hire people who speak languages other than English. I understand that, it makes good sense to have people on staff able to communicate quickly and effectively with a portion of the population who don't speak English, it is an airport after all with lots of foreign tourists and such. After visiting the airport recently I feel as if someone possibly screwed up the application...it must say, "Do you speak any language besides English?" instead of "Do you speak any language in addition to English?" I shouldn't have to pull out the Spanish-English dictionary to travel from New York to Florida... |
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I have not flown since 9/11 so have not had the pleasure of dealing with them at the airport but I have dealt with around a dozen TSA employees at a couple of my jobs 100% of them EVERY SINGLE ONE I swear was a high functioning retard and with the credit reports I saw I would not let them watch a bowl of pennies |
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I get nailed every five years, On an $85 charge to do a background check, And a finger print submission for my CDL.
I remember when they first started doing this process for the X Endorsements (Tanker and Hazardous) The TSA claimed it would only be a one time fee, And every time we had a renewal, It wouldn't cost us CDL guys nothing. 
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TSA is the biggest bunch of inbred, asswipe, dick licking, numb-nuts, taint-licking, good-for-nothing, money grubbing, tax wasting, under-educated, non-effective, egotistical, lazy, stupid, ugly, sweaty, retarded, completely useless set of goat scrotums on the fucking planet.
TSA makes me pray bin laden will get pissed and go after them instead and kill every last one of the. Every time I see one of those fat grubby, stinky, can't get a date to save my fucking life, even in the yellow pages, fucks trying to run my wife through the backscatter X-ray, who treat me like shit because I forgot a fingernail file in my bag, who hassle the SHIT out of the old white woman with a walker but let the shifty, swarthy pakistani guy speaking urdu furiously into a pre-paid cell phone go through the process without a second glance I realize we truly and honestly are fucked. The fact we let those high school dropout, don't own a fucking shower, live in there mom's basement, mall cop, tapco-ninja, paul blart wannabies with their fucking dime store "badges" and over exaggerated sense of authority and power have any sort of hand in our national security means we have truly surrendered. TSA is the outward manifestation of a country too fucking stupid to fix a simple problem, it's also a manifestation of a lot of sweaty, stinky, completely useless polyester stretched across the asses of a bunch of people who think they are important and powerful than they really are and who think they really are powerful and effective security forces, but are really just expensive, stinky, small dicked and fat assed marionettes. Puppets, in the grand play put on by our corrupt, lazy and evil government to pacify the teeming hoards of assholes who populate this once great country. They are no better than the animatronics at disneyland, an expensive show put on for the benefit of the masses which does nothing but burn money do nothing to make us safer. Cardboard soldiers in a war of guns bombs, fanatics and bodies. But more than a show, much more. A show that demands you open your wallet to pay for it, yeah, more than pay for it, you participate in it! So they open your wallet, steal your money, tear apart your bags, put your women and children in naked X Ray machines, all while doing absolutely jack fucking shit to make any of us any safer. I wish they all die of ass cancer, and I bid a good day to them with a smile as they writhe in pain, drawing their final breath. |
| I encountered the TSA for the first time this year. I'd always heard they were assholes and a big pain in the ass ect ect. For the most part they were completely meaningless and left me alone. There's really no reason to even have the TSA. They are no better than the pre-9/11 screening system we had in place. |
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I flew from Shreveport,LA to Houston,Tx,to Denver,CO, to Rock Springs, WY..
I am missing a bag so I go to baggage claim help people and ask them about it,give them my bag # ect...After several minutes the guy asks me to come with him to the front desk.We get there and all the TSA guys are standing there talking on the phone,cb's,ect about finding explosives in a bag.MY BAG!!!!!!!!!!! I had 2, I repeat 2 black cat firecrackers in one of the pouches on my bag.I didnt know they were in there,I used to take that bag to work when I was pushin tools and throw the blackcats at the guys I'd find sleeping on the job lol. Anyhow, they started callin supervisors and spittin out code red,all systems go bullshit,takin pictures of the 2 broken blackcats and sayin I was being DETAINED!!!!! I say "THE FUCK I AM", this should have been caught in Shreveport."Should I alert the media and tell them I made it halfway across the country with "explosives in my bag?"..They STFU then and said I could have my bag but not the explosives..I LOL'd and fent far away as fast as I could lol.. I started to tell them I was a private entiety testing security for the CIA or some shit,pains me now that I didnt.The dumb fucks.87 fuckin ahab's walk by and my white ass gets pulled to the side for a thorough ass grabbing buy some fat queer.Jeebus I hate the fuckin airport. |
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Do you think we are safer when we fly because some retard rummages through your bag with their fat fingers and leaves a nice note saying your stuff had been gone through? How about the guys who sample your bottled water in the terminal and test it for explosives? Feel better? When we flew back from providence I was picked for the puffer and all. Had my sunglasses wiped to check for explosive residues. Wife was holding both tickets. The security guy got my ticket from her so I could leave the the security area, but because I did not pass all checks the first time, I had to go all the way back through all checks. Any TSA stories or thoughts? Any time you leave the secure area, you go through the process all over again. You didn't fail anything. |
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Last time I was Buffalo Airport in NY, they didn't ask me to unzip the camera bag or laptop bag, it was completely the opposite of Skyharbor airport they wanted to see everything open including the camera card slot and omg it had a remote control thingy with a shoulder thing for the camera. Never mind the 20 feet of paracord I had wrapped on the 3 day assault pack I carried on.
Paranoid much? TSA is a joke and so is the security, unarmed push overs at the security check points and ya wonder why people constantly sneak shit thru. |
| Delt with a lot of the Super Trooper TSA as munches! One made his whole mission to make sure I paid extra for a Army Duffel bag cuase it wieghed to much. This is after slamming it on the table 15 times while inspecting it. He really didn't like it when I began to swear at him and informed him he didn't have any military clearance to inspect the inside of my check bagage. This whole heated argument brought some attention on him and broght the Superviser out! I was rushed threw getting checked in and cleared by security after showing I was on military orders and traveling to a duty station. And the As Hat was removed from the Ticket area really quick. But I have delt with other TSA workers who were more then helpful. |
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TSA is the biggest bunch of inbred, asswipe, dick licking, numb-nuts, taint-licking, good-for-nothing, money grubbing, tax wasting, under-educated, non-effective, egotistical, lazy, stupid, ugly, sweaty, retarded, completely useless set of goat scrotums on the fucking planet. TSA makes me pray bin laden will get pissed and go after them instead and kill every last one of the. Every time I see one of those fat grubby, stinky, can't get a date to save my fucking life, even in the yellow pages, fucks trying to run my wife through the backscatter X-ray, who treat me like shit because I forgot a fingernail file in my bag, who hassle the SHIT out of the old white woman with a walker but let the shifty, swarthy pakistani guy speaking urdu furiously into a pre-paid cell phone go through the process without a second glance I realize we truly and honestly are fucked. The fact we let those high school dropout, don't own a fucking shower, live in there mom's basement, mall cop, tapco-ninja, paul blart wannabies with their fucking dime store "badges" and over exaggerated sense of authority and power have any sort of hand in our national security means we have truly surrendered. TSA is the outward manifestation of a country too fucking stupid to fix a simple problem, it's also a manifestation of a lot of sweaty, stinky, completely useless polyester stretched across the asses of a bunch of people who think they are important and powerful than they really are and who think they really are powerful and effective security forces, but are really just expensive, stinky, small dicked and fat assed marionettes. Puppets, in the grand play put on by our corrupt, lazy and evil government to pacify the teeming hoards of assholes who populate this once great country. They are no better than the animatronics at disneyland, an expensive show put on for the benefit of the masses which does nothing but burn money do nothing to make us safer. Cardboard soldiers in a war of guns bombs, fanatics and bodies. But more than a show, much more. A show that demands you open your wallet to pay for it, yeah, more than pay for it, you participate in it! So they open your wallet, steal your money, tear apart your bags, put your women and children in naked X Ray machines, all while doing absolutely jack fucking shit to make any of us any safer. I wish they all die of ass cancer, and I bid a good day to them with a smile as they writhe in pain, drawing their final breath. 
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i worked all night in the ER and went straight from work to PHX, and flew to LAX. From LAX I was flying to Thailand on China AirLines. SO, still wearing my scrubs, i went through security at the international terminal. As I was preparing to step through the metal detector, the braniac TSA bimbo says "you need to take off your belt." I told her "I am not wearing a belt. These are scrubs I am wearing. Its just a piece of string." She told me "Take off your belt or you are not flying." I said "Thats not your call. Get your supervisor over here." Supervisor tells me "What? Thats stupid. Thats not a belt." So I pass through without incident. What a pack of morons. Quoted: You all don't know shit. Sounds like you are the authority on not knowing shit. If you work for the TSA, you and all of your idiotic co-'workers' can kiss my fucking ass |
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You all don't know shit. I'd venture a guess that I know a hell of a lot more about security than 99% of the guys working the floor at the airports I've been through. The things I've observed and and overheard are an embarrassment. Maybe somewhere at the executive level of the agency, there exists a genuine agenda with meaningful intention. Unfortunately, between the leadership at the top and the officers at the edge, there is a huge gaping hole. TSA is effective at following orders and keeping the average traveler from bringing banned items on planes. That said, someone skilled at social engineering, criminal obfuscation, or just in general a keen observer of patterns could circumvent TSA at will. I dont have any faith that the implementation of TSA has made a measurable effect on flight security. To be honest though....I am more concerned about the integrity of the 30 year old aircraft than I am about terrorism when I fly. There is about a 0.000001% chance that someone is going to blow up your flight....and about a 75% chance that some brat kid will be kicking the back of your chair seat the entire flight....pick and choose your battles wisely. 
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I had my rigger's kit in my carry-on and they made me get rid of my Leatherman tool because of the knife blade. (It was my own stupid fault...I forgot it was in there.) Anyway, I had to get rid of my Leatherman, but was allowed to keep my scissors, which technically have TWO blades, both longer than the blade on the Leatherman. I was also allowed to keep a six-inch tacking needle (which has a nice sharp point), and two temporary packing pins (again, nice and pointy).
Yep...makes sense to me 
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Waiting to board a flight out of Reno, I watched a pair of TSA goons walk up to the gate and annouce they were going to do a spot check. (I guess they don't trust themselves to do a good enough job at the inspection station.)
Lots of shady looking people milling around waiting to board (hey, it's Reno) and who do they pick to inspect? A female Air Force TSgt in uniform. Gotta love it. |
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Every time I watch a TSA person move plastic bins from one end of the X ray to the other, I can't help but think that this is nothing but pure welfare handouts.
Buy a fucking powered roller conveyor and fire a couple of the dumb monkeys and save the taxpayer some money. |
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Every time I watch a TSA person move plastic bins from one end of the X ray to the other, I can't help but think that this is nothing but pure welfare handouts. Buy a fucking powered roller conveyor and fire a couple of the dumb monkeys and save the taxpayer some money. Moving the bins around takes all of 5 seconds. There isn't enough room to put in a powered roller. |
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Do you think we are safer when we fly because some retard rummages through your bag with their fat fingers and leaves a nice note saying your stuff had been gone through? How about the guys who sample your bottled water in the terminal and test it for explosives? Feel better? When we flew back from providence I was picked for the puffer and all. Had my sunglasses wiped to check for explosive residues. Wife was holding both tickets. The security guy got my ticket from her so I could leave the the security area, but because I did not pass all checks the first time, I had to go all the way back through all checks. Any TSA stories or thoughts? Any time you leave the secure area, you go through the process all over again. You didn't fail anything. The hell I didn't. You MUST go through all security checks in one pass to be able to enter the terminal when in the high security lane with the puffer and explosives wipes. Because I did not show my ticket to leave that area as part of the actual pass through, I failed and was put back through all of it, ID your bag, open it, remove shoes, sunglasses and hard items wiped for explosives, etc. What the hell do you know about it? |
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Every time I watch a TSA person move plastic bins from one end of the X ray to the other, I can't help but think that this is nothing but pure welfare handouts. Buy a fucking powered roller conveyor and fire a couple of the dumb monkeys and save the taxpayer some money. Moving the bins around takes all of 5 seconds. There isn't enough room to put in a powered roller. Then use the space occupied by the xray machine. That's the point. |
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Do you think we are safer when we fly because some retard rummages through your bag with their fat fingers and leaves a nice note saying your stuff had been gone through? How about the guys who sample your bottled water in the terminal and test it for explosives? Feel better? When we flew back from providence I was picked for the puffer and all. Had my sunglasses wiped to check for explosive residues. Wife was holding both tickets. The security guy got my ticket from her so I could leave the the security area, but because I did not pass all checks the first time, I had to go all the way back through all checks. Any TSA stories or thoughts? As long as my rights as a citizen are infringed by the TSA and our Government, I WILL NOT FLY COMMERCIAL. Simple solution to a fucked up problem. I'm not going to go along with the bullshit surrender to the terrorists that our nannystate asswipes are trying to jam up our ass. |
| I fly fairly often and have MANY stories about TSA people. IMO, they are nothing more than losers that couldn't pass the civil service exam to become a Postal employee. In Israel, the military is in charge of airport security. I believe we should do the same and fire all TSA employees. |
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Every time I watch a TSA person move plastic bins from one end of the X ray to the other, I can't help but think that this is nothing but pure welfare handouts. Buy a fucking powered roller conveyor and fire a couple of the dumb monkeys and save the taxpayer some money. Moving the bins around takes all of 5 seconds. There isn't enough room to put in a powered roller. Then use the space occupied by the xray machine. That's the point. Then I'm missing the point. Are you saying to take the x ray machine out? The whole point of the bins is that they feed through the x ray. No bins= no x ray. |
| I like it when the 20 something year old urban youth is carrying on a conversation with another employee while he monitors the x-ray machine. I see this all the time where I fly out of. I've accidentally carried a Gerber multi-tool through with no problem. I mailed it home. My wife left her pepper spray in her purse once. That made it through the checkpoint x-ray and the 2 idiots who randomly searched bags at the gate. The whole thing is a joke. |
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Seems to me that the quality of the TSA employees vary by airport. Some make a halfassed attempt to act professionally but the vast majority are clowns.
The orginial idea of replacing Private Security at air ports with a goverment LE type agency may have looked good on paper, but then it was watered down and TSA hired the same private security guards , but turned it into a federal gig. Waste of money. |
| I was flying once and I was carrying a paperback book with a folded piece of paper inside. I think it had my flight information or hotel or something on it. The TSA guy took out the paper and read it. That was probably the most irritating thing that's ever happened to me while I was flying. How fucking ridiculous. |
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Quoted: Seems to me that the quality of the TSA employees vary by airport. Some make a halfassed attempt to act professionally but the vast majority are clowns. The orginial idea of replacing Private Security at air ports with a goverment LE type agency may have looked good on paper, but then it was watered down and TSA hired the same private security guards , but turned it into a federal gig. Waste of money. This is a fact. Some of the folks I worked with were borderline welfare rats, some just needed a paycheck. However there were a few that were proud of the job and acted professional. Had a retired Coast Guardsman that kept to the rules, as well as a younger man that was waiting for approval from the Sheriffs department. Both had professionalism and sense of duty that I have not seen since. However the other 95%... |
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And your better at sweeping the floor?
TSA is the biggest bunch of inbred, asswipe, dick licking, numb-nuts, taint-licking, good-for-nothing, money grubbing, tax wasting, under-educated, non-effective, egotistical, lazy, stupid, ugly, sweaty, retarded, completely useless set of goat scrotums on the fucking planet. TSA makes me pray bin laden will get pissed and go after them instead and kill every last one of the. Every time I see one of those fat grubby, stinky, can't get a date to save my fucking life, even in the yellow pages, fucks trying to run my wife through the backscatter X-ray, who treat me like shit because I forgot a fingernail file in my bag, who hassle the SHIT out of the old white woman with a walker but let the shifty, swarthy pakistani guy speaking urdu furiously into a pre-paid cell phone go through the process without a second glance I realize we truly and honestly are fucked. The fact we let those high school dropout, don't own a fucking shower, live in there mom's basement, mall cop, tapco-ninja, paul blart wannabies with their fucking dime store "badges" and over exaggerated sense of authority and power have any sort of hand in our national security means we have truly surrendered. TSA is the outward manifestation of a country too fucking stupid to fix a simple problem, it's also a manifestation of a lot of sweaty, stinky, completely useless polyester stretched across the asses of a bunch of people who think they are important and powerful than they really are and who think they really are powerful and effective security forces, but are really just expensive, stinky, small dicked and fat assed marionettes. Puppets, in the grand play put on by our corrupt, lazy and evil government to pacify the teeming hoards of assholes who populate this once great country. They are no better than the animatronics at disneyland, an expensive show put on for the benefit of the masses which does nothing but burn money do nothing to make us safer. Cardboard soldiers in a war of guns bombs, fanatics and bodies. But more than a show, much more. A show that demands you open your wallet to pay for it, yeah, more than pay for it, you participate in it! So they open your wallet, steal your money, tear apart your bags, put your women and children in naked X Ray machines, all while doing absolutely jack fucking shit to make any of us any safer. I wish they all die of ass cancer, and I bid a good day to them with a smile as they writhe in pain, drawing their final breath. |