How TSA Made Me Lose Faith in Humanity

[DeputyJones]

Seriously. right here is how.

http://news.yahoo.com/sock-monkey-s-toy ... 50875.html

[DHBirr]

This surprises me not in the least.  In 1992, nearly a decade before the TSA existed, airport security confiscated a key ring belonging to that notorious felon DHBirr because the fob had been made from an AK-74 rifle cartridge with its primer and propellant removed.  At least they let me take my keys off the ring.
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Big Brother is watching you.  And damn, you are so bloody BORING.

[Tennie]

It's really nothing new at all: airport security had to be beefed up due to the hijacking craze of the '70s and '80s.  And even before that, in the '50s and '60s the previous airliner terror craze involved bombing airliners for such reasons as insurance scams.

Just about the only thing truly new, in my view, is that the Internet and social media allow stories of airport security screwups and the like to be disseminated much more rapidly than ever before.

[robkelk]

Seesh. You'd think Nanoha would train them better.

What?

"Wrong TSA"?

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Never mind...
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Tennie]

I believe that you're thinking of the TSAB, the "Time-Space Administrative Bureau".  We're talking about the TSA, the "Transportation Security Administration".

[robkelk]

Ah, yes - you're new here. (One of my running gags is purposeful misinterpertation of acronyms.)
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Ebony]

DHBirr wrote:

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This surprises me not in the least.  In 1992, nearly a decade before the TSA existed, airport security confiscated a key ring belonging to that notorious felon DHBirr because the fob had been made from an AK-74 rifle cartridge with its primer and propellant removed.  At least they let me take my keys off the ring.

Prior to 9/11, I had a friend ejected from D/FW International for the very same reason (he was there for A-kon, which was at the airport hotel that year). He rationally and calmly explained to the security that it was, in fact, a dead bullet, with no primer or propellant, and that he couldn't fire it even if it had such, since he was carrying no firearms (nor any other weapons for that matter). Apparently, however, the airport security folks react poorly to being shown the error of their perceptions, and he was escorted from the building, told he was to never come back, and that if he did, he would be arrested.
I should point out that D/FW International is a major hub of airline travel in the United States, being the headquarters of American Airlines. He was back in the airport, this time to catch a flight, within the year. At that time, and as far as I know all further times, not one of the security and/or TSA has even blinked at his keychain. So much for that threat.  
Ebony the Black Dragon
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