TSA employee drops the ball again

[Irving]

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_..._overkill.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.

[Mtn.man]

shows how we employ the mentally challenged as security personel.

[cowboykjohnson]

Thats despicable. Poor kid can't hardly walk. Thats like asking someone to remove a cast or foot brace because it's suspicious.

[Irving]

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?

[sniper7]

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.

[Mtn.man]

Guess the steely dan will make them go crazy.....LOL

[Batteriesnare]

What a bunch of dumb shit stains. I mean, c'mon.



Damn.

[Elhuero]

number six on my top ten favorite ways to go to jail is pick a fight with a TSA screener that gives me attitude.

[Mtn.man]

After the refreshing ass kiccking he/she would recieve i would not get a jury to convict me.

[sniper7]

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...