TSA misses loaded gun in luggage
Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, pisses me off more than to arrive at my destination and opening my luggage to find all of my cremes and lotions in a baggie and a note from the Federal government telling me that they bagged my lotions and cremes for me and that I should do it myself next time. It pisses me off because because it’s a waste of time and serves no useful purpose to put my creams and lotions in a plastic baggie than to protect my clothes in the case that a container ruptures.
And it means that TSA is spending too much time bagging creames and lotions and not enough time on the things they should be doing;
The .38-caliber handgun fell out of a duffel bag as a luggage ramp crew was loading it onto an Alaska Airlines flight to Portland, Ore., the Times reports.
Now, I’ll admit that a loaded handgun in checked luggage is about as dangerous as unbagged creams and lotions, but, not finding a loaded handgun was probably the result of TSA looking for unbagged creams and lotions. Regular readers know I have a problem with security personnel, but it’s only when they are something besides providing security and working harder at Looking like they’re doing their jobs instead actually doing something productive.
I wonder how many people on that Alaska Airlines flight got home and found their creams and lotions bagged along with a note from the federal government.
Category: TSA sucks
well, at least they did not find your vibrator… http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/10/tsa-vibrator/
They’re not called ‘Thousands Standing Around’ for nothing….
They are good at finding all the lighters and fingernail clippers and a full bottle of water could get you arrested. A loaded handgun naw thats ok nothing wrong here.
They probably assumed, if they saw it at all, that it had been declared to the gate agent, was unloaded and otherwise met federal firearms transport rules. And we all know what assuming does . . .
I’d be more concerned about the content of said creams and lotions.
You see Israelis with MP5’s in the terminal, and checking the shit out of every El Al flight. MAYBE we ought to learn from that. Nah that would mean racial profiling! *gasp*
These morons and all the knee jerk crap you have to go through now is the reason I refuse to fly anymore. My wife says she wants to go to Hawaii someday (beats the hell out of me why), my standard response to her is “Yeah, well when they get the bridge built.” I told various family memebers around the country that if they plan on assuming room temprature to give me a couple of days notice so I can drive there.
I have a knife manufactured by the nice people at Kershaw that I affectionately call Mr. Sticky. Mr. Sticky has a stainless steel handle, so I guess, when he accidentaly goes through the TSA checkpoint in my purse he looks like a metal bar of some sort. I am embarassed by the number of times Mr. Sticky has accidentally boarded a plane. Thus, I have absolutely no faith in the TSA.
TSA is a joke. While their intentions are good, they focus on the trivial things, such as finger nail clippers, potions and creams (just like you said).
Hopefully, they will tighten things up and do a better job. I try to fly as little as possible now adays, because of the pain in the AS# is has become.
Great story. Thanks for sharing.
Chuck
People usually get a job with TSA because they couldn’t get hired at McDonald’s…..Completely worthless. They’d rather pat down an 80 year old grandma with a walker than Mohammed and his magic fire shoes.
They would have caught the gun, but there was a 6 year old that needed a pat-down, and they all rushed over there to help out.