"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
02/26/2014 at 15:40 • Filed to: planelopnik
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"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
02/26/2014 at 15:40 • Filed to: planelopnik | 1
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Washinton, DC resident Ashley Brandt went through security at the Phoenix airport and showed her valid Washington DC driver's license as ID. The TSA agent told her that she didn't think she could accept that ID since it was not from a state, and asked her if she had a passport instead. Fortunately for Brandt, a supervisor stepped in and said that yes, they would accept the ID. !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! has the whole story.
cazzyodo
> ttyymmnn
02/26/2014 at 15:43 |
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She didn't know if she would make it home?
Lady, you're still in the US...not as big a concern as if you were in, say, Colombia.
(Still weird.)
Audi-os, amigos
> cazzyodo
02/26/2014 at 15:47 |
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District of* Colombia
Grindintosecond
> ttyymmnn
02/26/2014 at 15:47 |
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I regularly deal with TSA security standards several days a week, every week. Each airport location is run more or less independently, as in here's the book, you run your show to comply with it. this of course opens up holes of interpretation because look who is employed by TSA. Honestly look around and see. they are doing their best but they didn't get hired out of a finance degree program like FBI agents do.
Now, even if trying hard, some things they just haven't been told or their station supervisor hasn't been told. So we gotta live with that.
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cazzyodo
> Audi-os, amigos
02/26/2014 at 15:51 |
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Are we acknowledging that I used Colombia as an example of a worse place to be stuck at or suggesting I didn't mean what I said.
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Audi-os, amigos
> cazzyodo
02/26/2014 at 15:53 |
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It was a pun that DC also has Columbia in the name (spelling notwithstanding).
Nothing more, nothing less, than a pun.
GTI MkVII
> ttyymmnn
02/26/2014 at 16:05 |
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TSA. Thousand Standing Around.
Slow4o
> Grindintosecond
02/26/2014 at 16:05 |
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A former TSA agent actually did an AMA on Reddit not that long ago. It was very interesting and he confirmed basically what you are saying.
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ttyymmnn
> Grindintosecond
02/26/2014 at 16:07 |
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Yes, but I thought the whole point of having a government entity run security was that it would be consistent from airport to airport. I wonder what the education requirements are for TSA agents. HS diploma? GED?
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cazzyodo
> Audi-os, amigos
02/26/2014 at 16:34 |
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I thought so but I also have been looking for an opportunity to use that gif...been in my back pocket for too long.
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Audi-os, amigos
> cazzyodo
02/26/2014 at 16:35 |
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It's a solid gif.
Slave2anMG
> ttyymmnn
02/26/2014 at 17:27 |
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Arizona - trying to be as mindless as Florida.
Rico
> ttyymmnn
02/26/2014 at 17:32 |
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The better question is how did this TSA agent never encounter a person from Washington DC.
efme
> ttyymmnn
02/27/2014 at 13:36 |
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airports are not required to use TSA from what I recall after past TSA fiascos. They obviously have to provide some other equivalent security measure, and still overseen by TSA, but its not written they have to use them.
that being said, I'm pretty sure the TSA agent did not know where the District of Columbia was located.