Here's a new one from the local T.S.A....

[Scott Holl]

Hey, that would be pretty funny.

Take the crash axe out, walk past the TSA to get a latte, then try to get it back through.


(note, probably not a good idea if your chief pilot doesn't have a sense of humor!)

I would find it pretty funny.

 

[LearLove]

I saw a few TSA guys (one had a jacket with large "TSA INSPECTOR" written on the back) walking around the ramp in DCA today. They started pointing at our airplane then walked away. Guess we are safe now.

Also I went thru security in ALT this morrning, flew 3 legs then non-reved home. The agent didn't ask for a special ticket or say i had to reclear security, they just let me on the plane as normal after I checked in.

 

[LearLove]

i know i feel safer because pax can only carry liquids in 3 oz containers! genius!!

remember 3 oz = safe, 4oz = dangerous

 

[Windsor]

Do you think the average terrorist is as smart as the average TSA agent?

My money is on the terrorists. Isnt a university degree a pre-req of being in Al-Qaida?

I wouldnt trust those at the Thousand Standing Around to walk my dog around the block without gettin lost.

 

[11thHour]

Jesus christ. Good ol' TSA, its just one great big federally sponsored work program. More and more I'm worried more about them then some terrorist. They have good intentions, but just cannot seem to muster any common sense. I'm sure their interview process (is there even one?) filters out those who have any. Just the other day, I pass through the metal detector and set it off. Come to find out it's my belt, which never sets it off. He wanted me to take it off, put it through the xray, and come through the detector again. I obliged. He then asked me why I just didn't take it off in the first place, to which I told him it never sets it off. Then I added "I fly the plane for crying out loud, are you afraid I'm going to strangle myself with the belt and let someone take over?" I know, stupid, but I couldn't help it. The look he gave me was priceless. It was like I was Osama himself. What a ********************ing joke.

 

[atrdriver]

Every day in IAH TSA people take forbidden items through into the sterile area. They don't go through screening themselves, they to through the exits. And every one of them that smokes uses a lighter, they they have in in the sterile area. I'm trying to figure out who to write. If they are going to treat us as a threat, then they can treat themselves as one too.

 

[Soverytired]

Every day in IAH TSA people take forbidden items through into the sterile area. They don't go through screening themselves, they to through the exits. And every one of them that smokes uses a lighter, they they have in in the sterile area. I'm trying to figure out who to write. If they are going to treat us as a threat, then they can treat themselves as one too.

Speaking of lighters, just about every regular smoking passenger has figured out that if they put their lighters in their pockets while going through the metal detector, they'll get to keep it.

 

[vectorvictor]

Do you think the average terrorist is as smart as the average TSA agent?

I don't think its the folks in the TSA that are flawed. Where are you going to find a well-educated, well-spoken, patient, and savvy individual willing to stand for hours on end and search through people's belongings? I think its going to be a rare find. I know I wouldn't do it without going postal.

If we spent half the money we spend on the TSA on a good counter terrorism effort; utilizing smart people doing smart things (infiltrating chat rooms, killing world terrorist leaders, seizing terrorist funding) maybe.....just maybe we wouldn't have to worry about a dangerous pilot going into the terminal to get his/her lunch. If our personnel screening is so bad we have to babysit the pilots of a domestic carrier walking in an airport we should just shut the whole air transport system down.

VV

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

The big gulps, slurppies and frappacino's combined with the gossip blah, blah talk as a I go thru security tells me these clowns are just that....

Yes it does require a 20+ oz drink to operate the xray machine.... and did you hear that Jimmy broke up with Shelia the other day..and she's pregnant!

The greatest insult to these clowns is "Does it bother you that you have no room for critical thought in this job?"

 

[LearLove]

The big gulps, slurppies and frappacino's combined with the gossip blah, blah talk as a I go thru security tells me these clowns are just that....

often thought of that myself. can't even count the times i've gone thru security in dca and tsa agent jamal is hitting on shanana who is working x-ray machine or one tsa guy is yelling across 3 security lanes to another about their work sked or some show on TV.

not too long ago in phl i set the alarm off (left my cell phone in my pocket) and nobody stopped me - the 2 agents were yapping about someone they knew in high school.

 

[vectorvictor]

often thought of that myself. can't even count the times i've gone thru security in dca and tsa agent jamal is hitting on shanana who is working x-ray machine or one tsa guy is yelling across 3 security lanes to another about their work sked or some show on TV.

not too long ago in phl i set the alarm off (left my cell phone in my pocket) and nobody stopped me - the 2 agents were yapping about someone they knew in high school.

That's just it though. The system is flawed. You can't expect any "normal" human being to do that work with any level of competency for a reasonable period of time.

 

[G2T]

That's just it though. The system is flawed. You can't expect any "normal" human being to do that work with any level of competency for a reasonable period of time.

So instead we will just make a ridiculous new rule, or "security directive", every other month or so to compensate.

 

[vectorvictor]

So instead we will just make a ridiculous new rule, or "security directive", every other month or so to compensate.

Its all part of the illusion of being safer. More important yet it give the politicians something to say when the broken system fails again. "Yes this happener, but we did all this in an attempt to prevent it." Our world is a messed up place where reality and lucid thought rarely hold hands.

 

[TheRaven]

Spend a week at the TSA's Artesia Retreat and Convetion center and never think about it again.

 

[RichardRambone]

You think someone whose chosen as their profession to stand in front of X-Rays all day really makes a good 1st defense?