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Re: My TSA Diatribe
Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 2:49 pm
by Texas Size 11
Interesting thread...I have to fly somewhat frequently for work so it is either a free cheap thrill of a pat down or the new x-ray doo-dad. Since it is male on male, I'm opting out of the pat downs. I think I am just going to start showing up at the airport in a thong when I go through security.
Re: My TSA Diatribe
Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 2:59 pm
by The Annoyed Man
Texas Size 11 wrote:Interesting thread...I have to fly somewhat frequently for work so it is either a free cheap thrill of a pat down or the new x-ray doo-dad. Since it is male on male, I'm opting out of the pat downs. I think I am just going to start showing up at the airport in a thong when I go through security.
Wear a thong, and a Homer Simpson mumu, then you can just hike up the mumu when it's your turn to assume the position.

Re: My TSA Diatribe
Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 5:13 pm
by Ameer
Texas Size 11 wrote:I think I am just going to start showing up at the airport in a thong when I go through security.
Soundtrack by Sisqo.
Re: My TSA Diatribe
Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 5:39 pm
by Texas Size 11
The Annoyed Man wrote:Texas Size 11 wrote:Interesting thread...I have to fly somewhat frequently for work so it is either a free cheap thrill of a pat down or the new x-ray doo-dad. Since it is male on male, I'm opting out of the pat downs. I think I am just going to start showing up at the airport in a thong when I go through security.
Wear a thong, and a Homer Simpson mumu, then you can just hike up the mumu when it's your turn to assume the position.

It would be more like the episode where Homer's thong kept disappearing...I'm a good sized boy.
Re: My TSA Diatribe
Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 6:22 pm
by lonewolf
My mind is now officially blind........

Re: My TSA Diatribe
Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 12:10 am
by chartreuse
There's a spot of what might, possibly, be "new news" on this whole shambles.
According to news reports, it seems that certain VIPs, including "Cabinet secretaries, top congressional leaders [and] senior U.S. officials" are to be exempt from the new intimidation by humiliation process.
Story here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40341995/ns/travel-news/
The new Barons and Earls indeed.

Re: My TSA Diatribe
Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 12:24 am
by chartreuse
Beiruty wrote:So let us say this sweetie:
Was wearing her normal outfit (you know her business outfit) with bare bottom, how she will get her "TSA treatment"?

I believe the nasty experience that the chap at San Diego had answers the question. Clearly, they would demand that she put on extra clothing, thereby allowing them to
pretend to look for something that they knew full well wasn't there.
Re: My TSA Diatribe
Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 12:28 am
by Beiruty
I guess, one TSA inspector would have his suspicious a "bit aroused" and ask for further private inspection. The other TSA agent is yelling "Camera, Camera, get the Camera" just to tape the evidence.
Re: My TSA Diatribe
Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 1:43 am
by gemini
chartreuse wrote:There's a spot of what might, possibly, be "new news" on this whole shambles.
According to news reports, it seems that certain VIPs, including "Cabinet secretaries, top congressional leaders [and] senior U.S. officials" are to be exempt from the new intimidation by humiliation process.
Story here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40341995/ns/travel-news/
The new Barons and Earls indeed.

Totally! Why on earth would the ruling elite make themselves subject to the laws/rules they enact for the lowly, stupid serfs?
They "opt out" of TSA security, Social Security, Obamacare, Sexual harrassment law suits, etc etc........
Republicans and Dem's learned nothing from the last election. It's business as usual. Sickening.

Re: My TSA Diatribe
Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 7:46 am
by The Annoyed Man
chartreuse wrote:There's a spot of what might, possibly, be "new news" on this whole shambles.
According to news reports, it seems that certain VIPs, including "Cabinet secretaries, top congressional leaders [and] senior U.S. officials" are to be exempt from the new intimidation by humiliation process.
Story here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40341995/ns/travel-news/
The new Barons and Earls indeed.

Quoting your article:
WASHINGTON — Cabinet secretaries, top congressional leaders and an exclusive group of senior U.S. officials are exempt from toughened new airport screening procedures when they fly commercially with government-approved federal security details.
Congressional leaders also have federal security details? Are you kidding me?

Re: My TSA Diatribe
Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 8:53 am
by chasfm11
jimlongley wrote:
chasfm11 wrote:One of Jim's posts summarized this best: he was able to get a firearm past security the majority of the time in his testing while normal TSA actions continuously "disarm" little old ladies by taking their fingernail clippers.
I don't know if things have changed since I left, but we had stopped the nail clipper thing in 2004, it was obviously carrying things too far. When I traveled constantly for a year after I left TSA, my nail clippers were never questioned, nor were they this past year when my wife and I flew to Hawai'i.
They even let my wife's knitting and crochet needles through and one of them was the size of the folding bayonette on the old SKS.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/articl ... ppers.html
Re: My TSA Diatribe
Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 9:19 am
by Jim Lockey
I've gone through several countries in Europe and some in South American and that didn't bother my wife and I, but the more I think about it the more I feel like we are living in a police state under Obama.
Jimmy
Re: My TSA Diatribe
Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 9:52 am
by Oldgringo
Jim Lockey wrote:I've gone through several countries in Europe and some in South American and that didn't bother my wife and I, but the more I think about it the more I feel like we are living in a police state under Obama.
Jimmy
Obama did not appoint himself POTUS.
Re: My TSA Diatribe
Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 9:57 am
by chartreuse
Oldgringo wrote:Jim Lockey wrote:I've gone through several countries in Europe and some in South American and that didn't bother my wife and I, but the more I think about it the more I feel like we are living in a police state under Obama.
Jimmy
Obama did not appoint himself POTUS.
A very good point, Sir.

Re: My TSA Diatribe
Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 10:39 am
by i8godzilla
TSA's new motto:
"We handle more packages than UPS."