Comments on: “TSA screeners are all idiots”

By: Jerry Darnell

Jerry Darnell — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 03:52:51 +0000

Ok I just finished the rest of the post on here, what a bunch of blind and whinning people! Liqiuds can not be mixed on a plane? Maybe you should try reading such book as “Anchery cookbook” or the “Poor man’s James Bond”. There are several household items that can be mixed that have the potientail to bring down a plane, I won’t mention any on here because there is probably some idiots that would try them.
Yes things get missed by TSO’s sometimes. These people scan hundreds and even thousands of bags a day. The try to find restricted items but they are human. Ok here’s a fix for never missing another item, let’s just open all our bags and let them search each item! Does that sound better? Oh wait, there would still be people whine about that! Have any of you considered that maybe the reason TSO’s haven’t been finding much is because people know if they do try to get through the screen with a restricted item they will get caught, so they just don’t try as often? Most people don’t speed because they know there is a chance they will get caught, even when tere’s not a cop in sight. Same thing people.
I also keep seeing post where people talk about someone’s bag getting on a plain with a knife in it. Well what a lot don’t mention is most of the time these bags are actually checked baggage and it is allowed to transport knives, swords even firearms in checked bagage.
Yes people forget to remove their ziplocks sometime but trust me they see the items on the x-ray and it they can’t tell for sure what it is the bag “will” be opened and checked. Some one mentioned sneaking plastic bottles through because the metal detector doesn’t pick them up? The metal detector has nothing to do with it, the bottle will be seen on the x-ray.
Lets face it, America is full of a bunch of spoiled whinners that think they should be treated special and not have to do anything that they concider a hassel. I mean their American so their not terrorist. Terrorist don’t even exist do they? Keep on thinking that way but I for one am more than happy to work with the TSA officers and follow the rules. I won’t be the one who is taken away in handcuffs.

By: Jerry Darnell

Jerry Darnell — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 03:23:17 +0000

I see and hear complaints all the time from people about TSA’s requirments on liquids. Well I have one for the general public, Learn to read and use your brain. Why would you need to carry more baby formula in your carry on than is needed for the flight? If you will use what God gave you you would realize all you need do is pack the extra formula in you checked baggage, not your carry on! I listened to a complaining passenger just the other day carry on about how unfair it was that he could not carry 12 juice boxes on the plain for his young son. The flight was only one and a half hour long so why did he need 12 juice boxes? I’m sure the people on the flights during 911 were able to look at the terrorist and tell right away they could not be trusted. You can not tell who may be trying to take something on a plain that is dangerous and that is the reason for testing the liqiuds. The liquids can not be tested if it is in a sealed bottle or juice box now can it? It might be a little more hassel for you to follow the safety rules that are in place but which would you rather do, just board the plain and hope you make it or try to work with the TSA and know your safety is their first concern? Being a TSA officer is a thankless job but they continue to show up everyday for your safety.

By: Omen

Omen — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 21:16:24 +0000

Y’all are ignorant or just plain uneducated. It does not take much liquid to be turned into a chemical bomb. Go back to Vietnam mothers would tie explosive devices to their dead (or alive) children and walk causally into American bases and detonate the device. If y’all want to have terrorist women hyped up on some type of drugs so they don’t think straight or are so angry about their child dying because some how someone blamed your country for that child’s death, come onto your plane with the right amount of chemicals to create a bomb and have them disguised as baby formula (cause I’m sure they can do that easily); well than be my guest. It is worth the extra 15 mins. that it takes for the security to sort people out is worth it. The stupidity of the over protective astounds me and insults the country that Marines, Navy and Army soldiers fight for.
Be Artful,
Omen

“Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.”
Guy Kawasaki

By: Tim Kallahan

Tim Kallahan — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:05:00 +0000

So has everyone forgotten about the attempted attack on the airlier headed to Detroit from Amsterdam? That plane was almost dropped from the sky by someone who did the aleged impossible: mixed a bomb on the plane and added the liquid portion while in his seat!

By: Professor Knight

Professor Knight — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:53:15 +0000

Concerning babies and liquids, I think that, either people have very short memory, or they only watch things like American Idol and never listen to the news.
They already forgot (or they never knew…) that, among the terrorists arrested in England a few years ago, there were women with babies who were going to blow themselves up altogether with their babies.
Yep, they were going to desitegrate their own babies just for the pleasure of blowing us up!
How about watching THE NEWS from time to time?

By: Thetruth

Thetruth — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:15:28 +0000

Fran, you sound like a Gov.Troll!!! Inside job…

By: fran

fran — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:27:22 +0000

This post is pretty ironic now that we actually had an attempted attack with no more than 3 ounces of liquid explosive. TSA are really idiots — they need to do their job, and passengers should stop being so spoiled.

By: Jack Bauer

Jack Bauer — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:20:39 +0000

Kip Hawley is an idiot!

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 07 May 2009 02:56:39 +0000

Denise,
I think you are starting to get it. Here’s my experience at DTW. It was a dark and stormy night on a ride from EGE to DTW. I was alone. The ride was rough. I spent the day riding the cold smoke of Vail Colorado and was returning from my week long ski vacation. After I gathered my luggage, which consisted of skis, boots, suitcase, computer, I fairly had my hands full. I struggled with my stuff to the top deck of Detroit’s Smith terminal and out the door to the bus lane and waited patiently for my parking lot bus to arrive.

Sadly, I was there right at TSA shift change. As I was loading my skis, and boots onto the bus, a herd of TSA thugs and bullies came out of the door, pushed (literally shoved me out of the way), marched onto and filled the bus with my skis and boots on the bus and my bag on the sidewalk and filled the bus. When I protested to them they responded with obnoxious comments and the bus driver said he was powerless to stop them and he couldn’t let me ride since all the seats were now full. One of the TSA agents threw my skis and boots off the bus and ordered me off the bus. I protested to the DTW port agent and was told that since they were “off duty” there wasn’t anything he could do.

I do not fly commercial scheduled airlines any longer. I’ll drive, take the train, take a grayhound or charter an airplane before I’ll allow these kind folks to do anything like that to me again. And on a train, I can bring a six pack and a pizza and no one will stop me.

By: John

John — Fri, 01 May 2009 16:29:31 +0000

@Denise … So you admit to knowingly smuggling liquids through a checkpoint (felony).

What’s your solution? Every women has to send their bra through the x-ray? How about every woman has to be “felt up” in order to get through security?

I can see those two ideas going over really well. I’d join my wife in the protest.

How about you suggest a viable solution to the problem instead of calling the security guards names?

BTW … your detenator would be found. The box has to be x-rayed. Carried “internally” the detenator has enough metal to set off the metal detectors. Also … the scare that set off the no gels or liquids ban included a cell with women who intended to take their children with them.

Try again

By: don

don — Fri, 01 May 2009 01:36:54 +0000

If you were to have a fine imposed on you for trying to carry on liquids, knives, etc. do you think that might change things. I for one never carry anything while flying including before or after TSA . No problems here.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:10:14 +0000

The TSA liquid ban is absolutely out of control I managed to “Save the world” from a threatening jar of olives with just the aid of a zip lock bag

http://tims-boot.blogspot.com/2007/09/when-is-jar-of-olives-not-bomb-when-it.html

By: Denise

Denise — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:09:25 +0000

The travel experiences I’ve had since 911 prove that TSA is staffed by bullies, slackers, and ignoramuses that may know the letter of the laws (usually) but have no concern for the spirit of it. And if they are caught dead-to-wrongs on something, passengers don’t dare object or they will pull you aside for a “random screening” or detain you for “suspicious activity” so that you miss your non-refundable flight. Until they insist on verifying that every female that passes through the line is not wearing inserts in her bra, I will always believe that the ban on liquids and gels is inept and inane. Here’s why:

Using a syringe designed to inject flavoring into poultry and an inner tube patch kit I was able to fill and seal a plastic bra insert with over a cup of oil. That’s over two cups of liquid I could get onto an aircraft undetected… a hell of a lot more than a couple of dinky little perfume bottles and lipstick tubes can hold. Of course, no one talks about the most obvious place that a woman could smuggle a significant quantity of material past security. I wonder why?

Oh yes — Because women are not typically terrorists, and women with babies are even LESS likely!

Water bras filled with explosive and feminine hygiene-wrapped detonators: even TSA guys won’t search thru a pack of those!

So no, I don’t feel safer because of the dog-and-pony show being put on by TSA, I’m just more annoyed. Tom, Dick, and Sallie with their GEDs and two weeks of training (hah!) are not going to out-think determined terrorists. Hell, they apparently can’t out-think a harried passenger who accidentally leaves a pocketknife in their carry-on! But a mother with bottled water for her baby’s formula? *That* will get stopped every time! Oh boy am I glad those guys are on the job, keeping me “safe” as I and my children get treated like criminals going into lock-down.

Terrorists may be unreasonable, but they aren’t stupid, aren’t crazy, and they think logically; that’s why they scare us! If *I* can think of these things, *they* certainly have. The idea that the TSA goons and their haphazard protocols can protect us from them is a joke, and a bad one at that.

By: Victoria

Victoria — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:22:11 +0000

OK, honestly some moms make it harder than it really needs to be. For crying out loud why carry a gallon of nursery water onto a plane!!!??? It’s just bottled water with flouride!! When my son was still on the bottle I’d mix up a bottle (which by the way DOES NOT have to be consumed within 1 hour, you have 2-3) and get through security just fine. TSA isn’t always the brightest but when you’ve got white stuff in a bottle and are carrying a baby, they generally get what’s going on. I even stick it in its own ziploc bag and separate it at security. I never had a problem getting more water at the terminal or from a flight attendant onboard the flight so I could make more formula. I even stopped a flight attendant as I was boarding, told her I needed some water for formula, told her my row number and she brought it to me during boarding. Bring enough formula to tie you over, bring some powdered mic, get bottled water later, really it’s not that complicated……

By: Mr Bad Example

Mr Bad Example — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:32:22 +0000

@Shannon,

Oh PLEASE! The TSA is security theater. Over 50 screenings per year and each time a prohibited item since their inception. Last Sunday it was a hotel shampoo bottle. for 18 months it was a screwdriver.

Terrorism is thwarted by good police work conducted by folks with different letter on the windbreakers than TSA. Try FBI, CIA, NSA, ATF just for starters. these are actual REAL investigators. Ones fully capable of infiltrating a terrorist cell and crushing it before they even get to the airport.

OTOH the TSA couldn’t find it’s ass with both hands, in a phone booth with a flashlight.