View Full Version : TSA employee drops the ball again
I think most of the issues with these latest TSA reports is that the employees on the ground have little training in customer service and thinking on their feet. I personally think that a false limb is probably the best way to sneak a bomb onto an airplane, but this was just leg braces and there were many other, BETTER ways to handle this situation and check the leg braces.
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/home_region/20100215_Daniel_Rubin__Another_case_of_TSA_overkil l.html
Ryan was taking his first flight, to Walt Disney World, for his fourth birthday.
The boy is developmentally delayed, one of the effects of being born 16 weeks prematurely. His ankles are malformed and his legs have low muscle tone. In March he was just starting to walk.
Mid-morning on March 19, his parents wheeled his stroller to the TSA security point, a couple of hours before their Southwest Airlines flight was to depart.
The boy's father broke down the stroller and put it on the conveyor belt as Leona Thomas walked Ryan through the metal detector.
The alarm went off.
The screener told them to take off the boy's braces.
The Thomases were dumbfounded. "I told them he can't walk without them on his own," Bob Thomas said.
"He said, 'He'll need to take them off.' "
Ryan's mother offered to walk him through the detector after they removed the braces, which are custom-made of metal and hardened plastic.
No, the screener replied. The boy had to walk on his own.
Leona Thomas said she was calm. Bob Thomas said he was starting to burn.
shows how we employ the mentally challenged as security personel.
cowboykjohnson
02-16-2010, 14:23
Thats despicable. Poor kid can't hardly walk. Thats like asking someone to remove a cast or foot brace because it's suspicious.
It's not even that they made him remove the brace, but that they made him try to walk without it under his own power. Are they going to tell people to start having their kids breath under water just to make sure that they can't?
maybe they need to use their great scanners...or do a quick pat down, or wait...maybe they should realize that this kid isn't a threat and has a disability.
TSA hires the dumbest fucks... they just piss me off on a daily basis.
I go through security several times a week. At one airport they have shitty scanners which will go off for a damn metal button. I NEVER take my belt off because the other 100 airport security check points it doesn't set off, this particular one had my belt setting it off.
their equipment is non-standard, they are not trained to standards, each place has it little quirks and poorly trained employees.
Guess the steely dan will make them go crazy.....LOL
Batteriesnare
02-16-2010, 15:27
What a bunch of dumb shit stains. I mean, c'mon.
Damn. [Bang]
number six on my top ten favorite ways to go to jail is pick a fight with a TSA screener that gives me attitude.
After the refreshing ass kiccking he/she would recieve i would not get a jury to convict me.
After the refreshing ass kiccking he/she would recieve i would not get a jury to convict me.
I think you would be right...I know very few people who like the TSA...
steveperry
02-16-2010, 19:28
their equipment is non-standard, they are not trained to standards, each place has it little quirks and poorly trained employees.
I travel every week for work, and see the same thing.
I have a Rhode & Schwarz portable spectrum analyzer I hand carry on the plane (freakin' thing cost $7K+). It always catches their attention. I get tired of trying to explain to them what a spectrum analyzer is, so I've started making things up. I tell them its a CPAP machine, a geiger counter, a divining rod, etc.
Here is a new one for you. Obstetrical Monitoring Equipment. You hook it up to pregnant animals because they can't just say, "Hey, I'm having a contraction right....NOW."
theGinsue
02-16-2010, 21:06
number six on my top ten favorite ways to go to jail is pick a fight with a TSA screener that gives me attitude.
After reading snipers post just before yours, I got to thinking this same thing. You've got non-standard equipment, non-standard callibrations, and poorly trained people with all the authority ever granted to any fully trained law enforcement officer. Yeah, that's definitely a recipe for a serious attitude and God complex alright.
Is there any agency that provides oversight to their actions?
After reading snipers post just before yours, I got to thinking this same thing. You've got non-standard equipment, non-standard callibrations, and poorly trained people with all the authority ever granted to any fully trained law enforcement officer. Yeah, that's definitely a recipe for a serious attitude and God complex alright.
Is there any agency that provides oversight to their actions?
just the TSA administration as far as I know...with a bit of oversight from obamas cabinet...and maybe a Czar or two (guy has soo many of them you don't even know what they are for...just that they get paid with our tax dollars for ridiculous bullshit).
I've shared this story before....
In hartsfield-jackson airport as I was bagging up my laptops and putting my shoes on I saw a TSA guy reading the riot act to a little old lady.
This dude was at least 5'8'', towering over this little white haired old lady giving her the ass chewing of the decade for having a too big bottle of something in her carry on. He was pointing his index finger an inch away from her face, staring down at her and talking to her like she was a two year old.
I was on the clock and had a tight connection to make. He was speaking sternly, but never touched her or raised his voice (that I saw). Had I been on my own time I would have stepped in and probably ended up going to jail.
steveperry
02-17-2010, 01:58
Just last month at DIA I saw a TSA Stooge pull a block of cheese from a bag and run it through the machine a 2nd time. What struck me as odd, was that it was not a fancy or expensive cheese. It was a one pound block of Kroger brand sharp cheddar. Anywho, after going through the x-ray machine a 2nd time, four TSA Stooges gathered around to discuss said cheese. They kept saying "I dunno, what do you think?", and "well, Its okay with me if its okay with you". I thought it was awful that my safety, and the safety of other, was dependent on the TSA's ability to properly identify cheese.
iamhunter
02-17-2010, 09:37
Seriously, I'm to the point where I'm just gonna walk through the airport stark naked.
Atleast it will be of my own volition and not forced on me by some radioactive scanner.
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