TSA, the Fun Never Ends..

[Cacia]

So, my boy child accidently left some gel in his carry-on. I said "oh just throw it away, sorry" And then they escorted us out of the airport. OUTSIDE. TO THE PARKING LOT. (MAUI) And then he said "You may dispose of this as you see fit". Needless to say, we could not stop laughing.

Swear..that's the whole story. No rudeness, no cracks. They said on the radio "we have a code 6678, and we are bringing them out"

My son almost cried.

So, the guy starts lecturing me about travel...how it's been this way (you must leave the airport, and re-enter) for X months, blah, blah.

No..it has not. It is different EVERY time we go somewhere. The last trip? This silly woman was barking at everyone that it has to be a "Zip-Lock BRAND" clear plastic bag.
We watched as she dumped all the guys meds into a big trash can from his quart sized zip-seal clear plastic bag that did not say "Zip-lock"
Where do they find these folks? Cause they love their jobs, I can vouch for that.

The best security personnel I have ever seen were in Dempasar, Indonesia. Polite, serious. Looking for the right stuff. (every seam) Efficient, reasonable. We were blown away at how many people they processed and how quickly. American TSA is seeming pretty dopey these days.

Oh, this other guy had lost his traveling partner who had their boarding passes and they just gave him another one. He got on the flight and his partner was using my phone because he assumed that his friend could not board without the boarding pass. He did. No problem.

 

[Diver Dennis]

Hee hee. I'm not the only one! Yeah, it is pretty crazy in some airports Catherine. Actually they are pretty good all over Asia.

 

[DiverBeth]

Oh those crazy wacky folks at TSA sure like to have their fun. At our expense of course. At the end of the week my kids and I are flying down to Texas and my older son will be carrying a sleep analyzer with him. It's TSA approved as a carry on but who knows what will happen.

 

[Cacia]

Oh my poor child, he likes to follow all the rules. He was humiliated. I wish they would pick on my other kid, in the rasta shirt.

 

[Jamdiver]

Ahhh and once again i'm glad that i'm not travelling to the U.S. this year.

The TSA is absolutely ridiculous at times....
Everytime I encounter them, skits from Monty Phyton come to mind..

 

[Cacia]

Remember, Jam, when rastas could not even ENTER Tortola? I do. If you had dreads, they would not let you in.

I just did not think they (her BF) should not wear a doobie smoking monkey sweatshirt to the airport. We got to the airport and he did not have his shoes. He aced the SATS, I still cannot figure this out.

And those gloves they snap on just make me shudder. (Are they the people that do the body cavity searches?) Yea, the other two kids should have been picked out if profiling were only allowed.

 

[Jamdiver]

Remember, Jam, when rastas could not even ENTER Tortola? I do. If you had dreads, they would not let you in.

I just did not think they (her BF) should wear a doobie smoking monkey sweatshirt to the airport. We got to the airport and he did not have his shoes. He aced the SATS, I still cannot figure this out.

And those gloves they snap on just make me shudder. (Are they the people that do the body cavity searches?) Yea, the other two kids should have been picked out if profiling were only allowed.

Yes I remember, Tortola being a 'proud' British Colony would of course have allowed no such thing.......... <sarcasm>

As to her BF lol........ hehe, based on my experiences observing other persons at the airport persons get treated 'differently' when they're wearing clothes like that.

He didn't wear shoes??!!!

 

[Cacia]

No..he "forgot them". JB says he only has two brain cells still talking to each other.

Funny thing. Punahou (Obama alma mater) is a very academic school. They do not require shoes until 7th grade. That is a Hawaiian thing. He is a seventh generation descendant from a missionary family. Shoes are pretty optional. Not required in restaurants... I'm not accustomed to that yet.

It might be part of the "resistance", not sure why it has carried over. Opposite of the proper British thing, for sure.

 

[The Chairman]

Oy vey, the TSA! I think they do more harm to flying than good. Bureaucrats just love picayune minutiae and they excel at being bureaucratic!

 

[Jeff Toorish]

When this is all over, we will have spent trillions of dollars to improve security and we will not only not be more secure, we will have a false sense of security, making us, in fact, less secure.

Perhaps the new Congress will take a hard look at this expensive idiocy and make some changes, although I doubt that will happen. Once a bureaucracy is entrehched, there is pretty much no way to get them out.

Merry Christmas

Jeff