Sharp-eyed TSA agents in CVG

[GCD]

Recently, I was commuting out of CVG. In the gate area, two TSA agents set up a random check station and promptly sat down to read their People magazines.

Suddenly, a woman of mideast origin ran into the gate area, placed a paper grocery bag filled with boxes on a seat, and ran away down the terminal hall. These two TSA agents didn't even move their heads out of the magazines. Even though the seat that she left the bag in was right next to them.

Having travelled all over the world, and personally witnessing terror, I began moving away from the area.

I then realized where the woman ran to. The ladies room down the terminal hall. I chuckeled to myself, but then began thinking about the sharp-eyed, truly observant TSA agents.

I recently read some TSA propaganda about observant TSA agents. According to the TSA, these are highly trained observers. That's why they are catching drinking pilots, the article said. They are trained to look for susoicious persons and be able to detect suspicious acts that are signs of a terror attack.

Well, TSA, this time two of you failed to detect something that could have been far worse than a woman needing to go to the bathroom. You failed to protect yourselves from danger by reading People magazine. Well done. Not only could you have lost two agents, but a terminal full of the US citizens you swore to protect.

My thanks to you!

 

[WrightAvia]

now that you mention it...

how do you know the lady that left the bag isn't testing the system???

We are doomed to be stuck in the ass again. People seem to think because we went over and kicked ass in Afghanistan and defeated the Afghan rebels that crashed our airliners into the World Trade Centers, that the terrorism doohickey is over with.

If you think I'm being a bit waggish, I am. People don't know schit...even the ones what is getting paid to protect us.

This is exactly why the second ammendment to the constitution should never be infringed on in any way, shape or form. The government can only protect US as WHOLE to a certain extent. They can't protect US as an INDIVIDUAL, AT ALL. In fact, from this above post, it appears that the Government can't even protect itself.

 

[Typhoon1244]

Re: now that you mention it...

We are doomed to be stuck in the ass again. People seem to think because we went over and kicked ass in Afghanistan and defeated the Afghan rebels that crashed our airliners into the World Trade Centers, that the terrorism doohickey is over with.

Sad, but very true. Well said.

This is exactly why the second ammendment to the constitution should never be infringed on in any way, shape or form.

Okay, next time you see a 767 headed for a big office building, whip out your .357 and shoot it down.

 

[WrightAvia]

hehehe...glad to see someone is awake!

hehehe...glad to see someone is awake! How is it going dad-squared?

 

[bunnyfufu]

Re: Re: now that you mention it...

Sad, but very true. Well said.Okay, next time you see a 767 headed for a big office building, whip out your .357 and shoot it down.

or shoot the terrorist who hijacked the airplane..

 

[Typhoon1244]

Re: hehehe...glad to see someone is awake!

How is it going dad-squared?

Sleep...need sleep. Mucho bad.

 

[SpiderMan]

"We are doomed to be stuck in the ass again."

 

[WrightAvia]

Believe it homie.

They can make many mistakes, we can only make one.

 

[WrightAvia]

Some of you guys act like...

...9/11 was the FIRST time America got "stuck in the ass"!

And evidently, Spidey there has priviledged information to the fact that we'll never see another terrorist attack on US soil or against US interests overseas ever again.

I got to ask you Spidey...if you're such a terrorism clairvoyant...how come you didn't gig me on the fact that I posted the hijackers as being Afghans, when actually they were Saudi and Egyptian?

 

[GCD]

I forgot to mention.

Remember I said that the TSA agents were setting up a random check area? Well, guess whom they randomly checked at boarding time. Not the middle eastern woman acting suspiciosly, and possibly testing the system as mentioned, but a 70ish year old man. The man was having a difficult time walking up to the podium, being assisted by a woman who was appearantly his wife. A very suspicious character I may add. He looked like a typical terrorist. You know, 70, unable to walk 20 feet unassisted, bent over with age, and very hard of hearing.

I wish that I was making this story up, but amazingly I am not. I have only one other bad experience with the TSA, so I do not have a bone to pick, but if I were to do my job the way they do their's, I'd been long ago fired. I also cannot stand to see my tax dollars wasted on a broken system, with inept personnel. Write your Congressman and Senators. Send them a copy of my story and any of your own experiences. Tell them our industry joke the TSA stands for "Thousands Standing Around" doing nothing.

 

[Espiritu]

Sharp eyed TSA

I am glad to know that I am not the only one who sees the TSA as "Thousands Standing Around". They are far too overstaffed, the bloated paychecks that all the "necessary" management teams at all locations are ludicrous, and personally I am sick of seeing 10-15 of them at each checkpoint. Then there is the case of the contracters that one can see in airports around the nation that are hired by the TSA simply to check identification because TSA doesn't seem to know how to do it. Tell me again why we need 15 people on a gate?

I never though that I would feel this way, but I am actually glad to see TSA cutting back. While on one hand I feel it was necessary for the government to take over screening, this country has NO need for 55,000+ screeners. At my particular location, a small regional airport in the northeast, there are 65 screeners. At my location TSA also funds the LEO staff. Instead of taking ten screeners from full time to part time, thus avoiding layoffs, they are going to cut funding for the armed LEOs and are going to add six new screeners. Can anyone SEE the "logic" in this? They are currently falling over eachother as it is, and there is far too much down time.

My most recent spectacular experience was with the TSA in PWM. As I was giving my airline ID to the contracter to check it (and checked it carefully he did!!), I went to the two open TSA stations. One had an older couple going through, and the other lane was wide open. I decided to challenge TSA by standing there and staring at them in the open lane. One was leaning on the xray, anotehr was chatting with a friend, and yet another was slumped in front of the xray staring back at me. I sneered at him and asked if they were open. "Yup" was my gracious reply. They told me to take my cork-bottomed Birkenstocks off. I said no, they weren't going to ring. The illiterate monkey that informed me the lane was open shrugged and said "Fine, suit yourself". I took my belt off and put it in the bin with my purse. Of course they stopped and scrutinized it on the xray, then pulled the bin out to look at it closer. God forbid my belt may have been placed in the bin the wrong way. I finished screening and went to my gate, passing a sole TSA agent sitting in the exit area whose job it was to make sure that no one got in. I keenly eyed her stack of magazines and supersized coke on her podium.

Thank you George Bush, I am very impressed.

Don't get me wrong, I am glad that the government took some sort of action. I certainly don't want anyone to get on to an aircraft that should not be there. I do not want to see another September 11, not anywhere. I certainly think that a few cutbacks and some trimming in management payroll would make the TSA run much smoother. Don't randomly check an old person, don't check the two year old...and certainly don't sit around with your stack of magazines and sip your coke. Leave that to the contracters.

TSA = "taking scissors away, touching sensitive areas"

 

[SDF2BUF2MCO]

The positive side

On the positive side, I hear orders for toe nail cutters have nearly tripled and the manufacturing people are hiring. So in a round about way our guberment is actually creating jobs!

 

[Skaz]

WrightAvia mate, you folks havent defeated F-ALL.