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For confirming that you work for a worthless agency dedicated to making air travel the maximum PITA possible. In an entire federal agency full of assholes you obviously strive to be a bigger asshole than your fellow employees...and you've succeeded.
I hope someday when you're in a new airport and a little confused by the number of signs and conflicting instructions facing you a TSA employee behaves toward you the way you behave towards those you "serve". Dickhead.
Well now we are all curious.
Ok Boomer.
Cool Story Bro
Someone just made a watch list
They took away my can of Red Bull I use with my medication two weeks ago. Now I have a sinus infection. The women in London were so beautiful and friendly, WTF was I thinking moving to Colorado? I am an idiot.
With some people, any bit of authority goes straight to their heads. Hope the rest of your journey is less eventful.
Exactly why I don't fly.
Years ago I was in Germany, the part formerly controlled by the Soviets. I was travelling with another engineer who spoke German, because in that area the primary languages are Russian and German with English being a distant third.
Travelling on a train to another town, I fell asleep only to be woken by a attendant in uniform loudly demanding, "Der TICKET! Der TICKET!". Only in German, which I didn't understand.
Give those guys a uniform, and they think the world is theirs.
I had a good chuckle on my recent trip to AK with my rifle when comparing the firearm mandatory check system at DIA compared to Anchorage. DIA, you do NOT set foot in the room where they do the check and in Anchorage the guy invited us into the room and had us unlock the case and stand right next to him the whole time.
It's like two different countries with different rules.
......it is.Quote:
Originally Posted by TRnCO
Im posting on my phone and can barely see it. Details to follow when I get to Lewiston.
I hope you gave a bad Yelp review as well.
Must be TSA goon discretion. When I last checked one at DIA, I stood right next to them.Quote:
Originally Posted by TRnCO
I have flown a _lot_ in the TSA era, with pre-check when it became available. The second most frustrating thing with TSA is the inconsistency. The simplest of activities are different from airport to airport, and of course the bad apples really stand out when their pet procedure is “disrespected” by the bewildered passengers.
Ok. I gotta ask.... you couldn’t infer what they wanted when the phrase in German was “Der ticket”? It has ticket right there, and being asked to see your ticket on a train is an expected scenario. It seems ticket is the same in both languages and should have been easy to figure out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Duman
Most over zealous TSA agents lose their backbone when you ask them to call their manager to iron out the situation properly.
Well, someone seems upset that they didn?t get the special TSA groping.
I always get groped when I travel.
They say no water bottles and liquids have to be a specific ounce limit to get through. Why would you think a can of Red Bull is acceptable ? Just curious. I?m not a fan of the TSA.
Silver linings. Every time you start to get frustrated with a cab full of four Corgis on the drive back, just imagine that you had to drive back with that TSA agent and breathe a sigh of relief that it's just four hyper dogs instead.
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TSA is security theater to make the masses "feel" safe. They routinely miss over 90% of "test" weapons and bombs that their own auditing division attempts to get through checkpoints. A quick search will reveal numerous instances of passengers discovering guns and other contraband in their carry on luggage AFTER arriving at their destination.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/tsa-fails-...ry?id=51022188
https://reason.com/2018/11/19/go-ahe...-this-thanksg/
Note: 2 years after the original article, a more recent test found a failure rate of just 84%... [facepalm]
Yeah, they'll probably keep you from carrying on a Barrett, or broadsword; a Glock 19, not so much.
I thought if we are at war with space aliens, I could at least have a can of Red Bull to wash down the medications the .gov issues. It helps the body absorb the pill quicker. The idiots basically wanted to strip search me for a small can of Red Bull. I let them have the can. I already had missed one flight. Next time I will call ahead for the plane to be properly stocked. IMHO we are effed. Feel free to flame away...Quote:
Originally Posted by colorider
Curious when the last time you checked a firearm in at DIA? There were approx. 7, maybe 8 people waiting for the firearms to be checked and no one was allowed into "the room"..we were allowed to watch from outside the door, but not allowed to set foot in.Quote:
Must be TSA goon discretion. When I last checked one at DIA, I stood right next to them.
About a year ago. 1 other person was in the room checking their firearm and there were 3 or 4 TSA people in there. I unlocked the case, they inspected and xrayed it, and I locked it as it came out of the machine.Quote:
Originally Posted by TRnCO
This has been my experience as well, I'm not sure what all they search, but my pistol box has always been secured inside my luggage with non TSA locks, so who knows. Long guns could be a different procedure altogether, I've never checked one. Kind of crazy, the smaller airports (Tucson being the most recent experience) don't even send my luggage with TSA, it just goes with everyone else's luggage after filling out the declaration card.Quote:
Originally Posted by TRnCO
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It wasn't "Der Ticket", I would have understood that.Quote:
Originally Posted by J
Yeah, was probably something like "fahrkarte", or "billet", maybe?
So here's the rest of the story...probably paraphrased but close.
Going thru screening. Shoes off, stuff in the bucket on the conveyor to go thru xray. Foot traffic is funneled by the xray conveyor to my left and a rope barricade thing on the right (not really a rope...those expand-a-barricade strap looking things that go from pole to pole) towards the walk-thru metal detector. I approached the metal detector and Mr 400 pound TSA dickweed holds up his hand and tells me to "step to the right". OK...I take about a half step to the right and I'm up against the strap barricade thing. He says again, "Step to the right". I asked him if he wanted me to crawl under the barricade? He said, "No. What, exactly, is your problem. I want you to pay attention and follow my instructions." I said, "Well I want you to not be such an asshole. I don't exactly understand what you want me to do."
So he walks thru the metal detector and gets right up into my face...or as close as his large, protruding belly would allow, anyway, and says, "Did you call me an asshole?" I said I did and I apologized. I meant to say "fucking asshole".
Yes. Very inappropriate and confrontational. I was wrong. However, I didn't say it loud enough that anyone else could hear, I didn't cause a scene and I tried to do everything he told me. No one, at this point, is paying us any mind. It's just conversational tones and levels...no yelling or anything.
"All I wanted you to do is turn around, go back the way you came, walk around the divider to the right and go to the body scan machine but you seem to think you're special." I said that is NOT what you told me to do. If you had told me to do that I would have done that.
I turned around and started to go around and he said, "No, no, no. You're not going anywhere now. Just stand right where you are." So I did. A few moments later two of OKC PD's finest come around the corner. They escorted me into an office. I couldn't hear what the TSA guy was saying but one of the cops was repeating everything as if to clarify. Bottom line, no one was disrupted, no one was placed in fear or was alarmed and none of the other TSA agents heard the conversation. That was the gist of what the officer got from the TSA guy. So he got my ID, cleared me, and asked me for my version and I told him exactly what happened, including my inappropriate remarks. I told him I was expressing my opinion of the agent and felt I was within my rights to do so as long as it went no further. He scolded me slightly then told me to be on my way. The second cop looked like he was bored to tears...never said a word. He obviously wanted to be somewhere else.
I went back, made it thru screening without further incident and went to my gate. Two more OKC PD officers just happened to be standing at the gate when I got there.
If you happen to go thru the OKC airport, look for my favorite TSA agent and tell him I said "Hi".
I think you did the right thing.
Yeah, probably not. I suppose it could've easily turned out badly...for me.
When people hide behind their badge they don’t stand for what it means.
This in spades.Quote:
Originally Posted by XJ
Pisses me off and I frequently call the assholes on it.
That's not the half of it. Their executive level guys are worse, total P envy with DHS and FBI, who treats TSA like support.
I've blown through KC security a few times with a small can of Starbucks double shot...Quote:
Originally Posted by BushMasterBoy
As has been said, it's so much BS theater it's ridiculous.
TSA perennially attempts to criminalize their own incompetence.
Only remaining avenue: Request the patdown and make really sexual moans during the process. Then finish with "Thanks big fella, nobody's touched me like that since the HIV diagnosis three years ago"Quote:
Originally Posted by Bailey Guns
BG says, "Hi, you fucking asshole." [Coffee]