TSA buffoonery
Andy sends us a link to the New York Post about some idiot TSA screens at JFK airport. A screener found a canister on the floor and didn’t know what it was, so he…well, here’s what the Post says;
The agent, Chris Yves Dabel, discovered the device at the Terminal 2 security checkpoint and tried to determine if it was real, a source told The Post.
He told Port Authority cops that he “found the canister on the floor and thought it was a laser pointer.”
“They were playing around with it,” said one Kennedy Airport official.
The screener sprayed five other TSA agents around him, sending all six to Jamaica Hospital and halting security checks at Kennedy for at least 15 minutes, police said.
It’s a good thing he hadn’t found a gun and pointed it at himself to see if it was loaded. Or something.
Category: TSA sucks
what’s the criteria to become a TSA agent, ALMOST spelling your name right?
Wowzers! I think I’m over-qualified for a TSA job.
Two comments on this.
#1-Play stoopid games, win stoopid prizes. The five sprayed “agents”, as soon as Teh Stoopid One picked up the unknown canister, should have told him to put it down. STAT!
#2-We’ve always said, being stoopid should hurt. In this case, it did. Pepper spray is nothing to play with. Even people who use CS (tear) gas for mouth freshner, choke on pepper spray.
On behalf of all New Yorker’s, I would like to take a moment to express my … wait a minute … nevermind!
This explains a LOT about people hired to work as TSA agents.
You have to see this very important video about the TSA:
I went on a visit to my sister’s in CA last fall. On my way home, TSA held me up because I had a package of honeycomb in my bag, a souvenir. It was in it’s box, never opened, clearly labeled. The agent’s comment to me? “People eat this?” I said “Yeah. It’s HONEY”.
Because the new terrorist thing is to inject explosives into honeycomb, right?
#7 Common Sense
Shhhhh. Don’t give the TSA any more ideas then they already (don’t) have.
TSA: Thieves, S**theads, & A**holes, or Thugs Sexually Assaulting. Like I’ve said before, the perfect meal about 45 minutes to an hour before having to go through a gauntlet of those idiots is two Fiber One oats & peanut butter bars, a hard boiled egg (pickled works even better), some broccoli, and part of a sweet onion. Then the moment they decide to grope you, *POOOOOT*! OH, how I loved the look on the face of the last TSA puke I did that to, I have a “Chili with Beans” MRE tucked away for the next time I have to fly somewhere! One thing is for sure, if one is too stupid or incompetent to even cook fries at a fast food franchise, they can always get a job as a TSA schmuck!
The TSA will probably promote the guy and make him a TSA supervisor at JFK for taking initiative and figuring out what the “strange object” was.
TSA is a fucking joke in my opinion. I had a real nice run in with them on Dec 23rd 2011 at 2200hrs. A few squads from my unit were headed home from Iraq and my commander asked for a volunteer to be at the airport to collect their weapons so they could go straight home to their families, I was said volunteer. One of the requirements was that I would be in uniform and ARMED due to the nature of my duties. I showed up to the airport in a marked Security Forces (Security Police for you non Air Force types), in uniform, and armed. I made it about 15-20 steps into the airport when I was approached by a fat, bald, TSA officer with a bad attitude. He asked me why I was armed in the airport and asked for my badge so I pointed him to the cloth patch on my uniform. (The dress uniform is the only uniform that has an actual official looking badge, ABUs have a cloth patch sewn in place.) I then told him why I was there and what I was picking up. This was a NO-GO, so he asked for my paperwork stating I could be armed. I told him my ID card was what allowed me to carry, this too was a NO-GO. He then told me I needed to surrender my M-9 pistol over to him, by this time he had four other TSA goofballs with him. I told him no and started to walk away. I didn’t get too far when ol’boy and his group cut me off and started again with the demands that I surrender my sidearm. At this point I pulled out my cell phone and called the airport police on the TSA officers (Security Forces like MPs have no authority or arresting power off base, except in extreme or special cases). Happy man was smug as hell, at least up to the point that the airport police arrived and told him to stand down and leave me alone. I swear these jizz stains serve… Read more »