No one checked my ID at MSP!

[XLR8]

A couple days ago I went through security checkpoint #3 at MSP. I walked up, not one person asked to see my ID. I put my stuff in the tray, walked through, gathered my stuff and was about to walk away (after not one person even attempting to look at my ID).

I asked the supervisor if anyone wanted to see my ID, thinking he'd blow up and try to take my license away or something. His response was, "As long as you're in uniform, we don't need to see your ID". I asked him when this changed, he informed me that it depends on what shift you come through security.

This is so frustrating having security change at every single airport we go to. Some airports you can't get through if you're in uniform and going to work, and other airports you can walk through in shorts and a t-shirt and no one says a word!

Maybe someday it will be standard at every airport. Maybe someday the government will spend more than $0.50 on our license and include pictures and holograms so the kid at Kinko's can't make one for himself. Someday......someday!

Fly Safe!

 

[TurboS7]

Keep your big mouth shut and consider yourself lucky. This is a a bunch of insanity, what do you want a full strip search everytime you come to an airport.

 

[Hopeless_in_GA]

last week I went through security at ATL, was given the full treatment by

Federal Passenger Fondler Oleg Trunk, complete with rubber dishwashing gloves, KY and a toilet plunger, while one lane over, Osama and his harem, complete with full Burka's and carry on luggage the size of small chest freezers waltzed right on through with smiles and have a nice trip from the TSA.

The next one that got it was some old geezer who look like he was approaching 70 or so...

flippin insane

 

[Tim47SIP]

Quiet!

Probably not a good idea to let the wrong people know how the system is operating everytime there is a change. That is all we need is to be the primary source of intel for the fundamentalists. Going to the supervisor was the right thing to do, but to state it on this board was probably not (with such specifics).
You to fly safe!

 

[saabcaptain]

First off they *should* ask for IDs because to not do so is unsafe.

Second posting the airport, the checkpoint, and the method for getting through security on a public internet site isn't the best idea.

 

[XLR8]

I agree.......I probably shouldn't have posted all the specifics on this website.

But, I guess I'm just getting frustrated because security is different at every airport we go to. I thought having gov't run security at the airport was going to make every airport equal. It seems as though every airport is more different than they were before the TSA's came in.

I apologize for posting the specifics....I probably should have told someone where it happened. Is there anything we can do or do we just continue to put up with all the nonsense.......I think I already know the answer to that one, oh well!

 

[crosscut]

I agree.......I probably shouldn't have posted all the specifics on this website....I apologize for posting the specifics...Is there anything we can do ...

You can start by editing your original post to delete the specifics.

 

[EagleRJ]

Calm down everyone- there's no sensitive information being leaked here. I was going through MSP several weeks ago (in uniform), and in the span of 30 feet, I had my ID checked three times. Once by the Globe girl on the stool and twice by the crack team of TSA professionals.

The point is, there's no consistancy from airport to airport. A lot of times, it even depends on who the TSA supervisor is that day. Universal Access can't get here soon enough, but in the meantime, all we can do is ensure screeners are following the rules.

The news last night mentioned that two TSA employees were fired for stealing passengers' belongings. I assume their background checks were either inaccurate or incomplete!