Your Transportation Security Administration

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 01/06/2016 at 13:27 • Filed to: planelopnik

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Keeping the world safe from 10-year-old girls with juice boxes.

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TSA agents found a juice box in this girl’s backpack. So they patted her down, then did additional screening that took an hour. Meanwhile, 95% of weapons and fake bombs !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! .

For Sweden > ttyymmnn 01/06/2016 at 13:29

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People keep bringing up the disbanding the Iraqi Army as the Bush Administration’s biggest mistake, but not many mention pulling law enforcement away from the FAA.

Diesel > ttyymmnn 01/06/2016 at 13:29

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Ash78, voting early and often > ttyymmnn 01/06/2016 at 13:30

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/also the name of a pretty good kids’ parody band

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > ttyymmnn 01/06/2016 at 13:48

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Glad we’re using the TSA to its fullest potential.

Dukie - Jalopnik Emergency Management Asshole > ttyymmnn 01/06/2016 at 13:50

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They’ve gone through my bag after they saw a bag of change (laundry quarters) in my backpack in the x-ray machine. While I was wearing my DHS ID. And they once took my “brass knuckle” iPhone case (that I had flown with through SeaTac & LAX in Honolulu because “it looks like a weapon”.

ttyymmnn > Dukie - Jalopnik Emergency Management Asshole 01/06/2016 at 13:53

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*heavy sigh*

Maybe we should do like they do in parts of Europe and have actual police officers, with appropriate training, do the interviews. I remember being interviewed by a couple of German police officers when I left Munich. It actually made me a bit nervous. The only thing I get nervous about in the US is some over-officious TSA knucklehead gets the idea to make my day horrible.

ttyymmnn > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap 01/06/2016 at 13:55

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Theoretically, you get what you pay for. But their budget is over $7 BILLION dollars and they still can’t seem to hire qualified people or have a coherent security strategy.

Rico > Diesel 01/06/2016 at 13:57

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I don’t want all these vitamins!

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > ttyymmnn 01/06/2016 at 13:59

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And extra screenings are just a pain. And for the parents. I’m sure none of them want to fly again for any length of time.

450X_FTW > ttyymmnn 01/06/2016 at 14:13

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It’s kind of like when cops brag on social media about a huge drug bust of 5 grams of pot in some college students backpack, meanwhile 4 cars were just stolen down the street from them..

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > ttyymmnn 01/06/2016 at 15:01

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I’m just going to go ahead and lose this argument based on Godwin’s Law. This is way too damn similar to the argument of “I was just doing my job”:

The TSA defends their procedures, saying it’s necessary in some cases.

At some point We The People have to step up and say “fuck this shit, it’s time for common sense”. The TSA security theater needs to go. If only there were someone who had developed an effective airport security protocol that the U.S. could study and implement.

http://www.internationalpolicydigest.org/2012/06/19/wha…

ttyymmnn > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 01/06/2016 at 15:05

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Yes, El Al has a perfect record of protecting their passengers. They also deal with significantly less traffic than America does. They've also made an art out of profiling, which is frowned upon in the US. But clearly, they are doing something right, such that it seems as if terrorists don't even try.

gin-san - shitpost specialist > ttyymmnn 01/06/2016 at 17:02

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The Simpsons touched upon this many years back in one episode where a bear comes into town. Since the TSA was made there hasn’t been another 9/11, therefore the TSA must be working.

You could've just put a terrorist-repellant rock at each airport and it would've done about as good a job, if not better since the rock wouldn't fuck with people needlessly.