Airport Screening Results

[Patrick]

 

Airport Full Body Scan Status Report
Finally, some useful facts are coming out of all those airport full body scans!CATSA disclosed the following Airport Screening Results
 
 
December 2014 Statistics on
Airport Full Body Screening from CATSA :
Terrorists Discovered
0
Transvestites
133
Hernias
1,485
Hemorrhoid Cases
3,172
Enlarged Prostates
8,249
Breast Implants
59,350
Natural Blondes
3
It was also discovered that 308 politicians had no balls.
Just thought you'd like to know.
 

[Serk]

[Grumpy]

TSA is a joke, I have a young man that visits here every year from Ireland normally around the 4th of July. When he left here to fly back, went through screening here and in NY when he transferred to the British Air flight, after he got home he realized he had 2 smoke bombs in his jacket pocket. These were the large ones, 6 in long and 1 1/2 in in diameter.  TSA never noticed them, could have been some thing real bad. Doesn't it make you feel secure that these idiots are safe guarding your flights.

[Serk]

Security Theater...

(Naughty language warning in this video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3yaqq9Jjb4

[old2soon]

T S A-funded ENTIRELY with OUR tax dollars!  AND being as it IS a gubmint entity Ya puts in a  mil and gits back 3 cents!  I'm thinkin this agency-t s a-couldn't catch a cold!  RIDE SAFE.

[Patrick]

TSA ?   They drive me nuts. We have a weekend morning routine of going to different airports for burnt eggs and pancakes. There is one in our routine that has TSA, most are small with no TSA [ good thing]. The first time TSA had a presence there they watched us come in, park, get out and walk across the ramp to the diner door. They all [ 3] came running over yelling at us to go thru 'their' door and go thru the 'routine'. We laughed and told them where to go, call the real police if you want to, we're going in and eat.  Everyone working in the diner had a laugh and explained to them that we are regulars, never had a problem with them after that. As for commercial flights, I haven't taken one since their inception.

[IamGCW]

TSA ?   They drive me nuts. We have a weekend morning routine of going to different airports for burnt eggs and pancakes. There is one in our routine that has TSA, most are small with no TSA [ good thing]. The first time TSA had a presence there they watched us come in, park, get out and walk across the ramp to the diner door. They all [ 3] came running over yelling at us to go thru 'their' door and go thru the 'routine'. We laughed and told them where to go, call the real police if you want to, we're going in and eat.  Everyone working in the diner had a laugh and explained to them that we are regulars, never had a problem with them after that. As for commercial flights, I haven't taken one since their inception.

Willingly bypassing TSA security seems like a security threat.  Access to those doors should be reviewed and revised.

Gil

[MarkT]

Not a problem for me.  Since I was involuntarily ungeeked in '99 and voluntarily employed by myself I have never flown. I have never taken my shoes off or been groped at a security check. I ride or drive everywhere.  Now recently I almost considered flying to MI to ride my new Tourer back to CO - but decided against it. You still can't take your CCW unless you check it ( I think that's possible, but now the baggage handlers might get a nice shiny new toy ) but then no ammo so you are still in a "gun safe" zone - aka target range for the criminally insane - until you can get to a gun store.  And you still get the thrill of strangers groping your junk and otherwise being violated.  I remember when you could even SMOKE on a plane, and they gave you - OMG - FOOD.  In my work now - there is no reason for me to have to be anywhere in hours.  No more fast lane for me.

I wonder how well a gun store would do, just off the airport property ( in a state with no mandated wait period or residency requirement ) ...  And what a field day the lefties would have with that.

[Serk]

You still can't take your CCW unless you check it ( I think that's possible, but now the baggage handlers might get a nice shiny new toy ) but then no ammo so you are still in a "gun safe"

You can check a gun and ammo, even can have the ammo in the same case as the firearm, just has to be in a ammo box and not a magazine or loose. And any checked firearms are labeled so they ARE conspicuous for the purpose of making sure no one decides to try to take it along the way. (The gun box has to be hard sided and lockable, and you lock it in front of the ticket agent and declare only you have the key or combo)  Although it feels weird telling the gate agent "I need to check a firearm" it's not that bad, I've done it several times, and once I arrive at my destination I just go to the bathroom with my luggage, find a quiet stall, and reload and re-holster up so I'm good to go the minute I set foot outside of the airport.

[RP#62]

You still can't take your CCW unless you check it ( I think that's possible, but now the baggage handlers might get a nice shiny new toy ) but then no ammo so you are still in a "gun safe"

You can check a gun and ammo, even can have the ammo in the same case as the firearm, just has to be in a ammo box and not a magazine or loose. And any checked firearms are labeled so they ARE conspicuous for the purpose of making sure no one decides to try to take it along the way. (The gun box has to be hard sided and lockable, and you lock it in front of the ticket agent and declare only you have the key or combo)  Although it feels weird telling the gate agent "I need to check a firearm" it's not that bad, I've done it several times, and once I arrive at my destination I just go to the bathroom with my luggage, find a quiet stall, and reload and re-holster up so I'm good to go the minute I set foot outside of the airport.

"I need to check a firearm"  I'll have to remember that.  When the dude at the counter said can I help you I said "I have a gun".  Didn't go over well - his eyes got big and I could see the onset of panic, so I said I'm declaring it like it said on the website.  He said Oh and called his manager over.  Manager said where is it and I told him it was locked in the suitcase.  He said it has to be in a gun case.  I said the website doesn't say that, it just said a locked case with hard sides.  He said well, we require a gun case.  Seeing that this wasn't going anywhere, I said, actually, it is a gun case, but its really big and I only have one little pistol so I put clothes all around it so it wouldn't rattle around.  He thought about it for a minute and said OK.

-RP