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Category: TSA sucks

  • More butt bombers in our future?

    The Associated Press reports that the government is warning that they suspect that terrorists will attempt to implant bombs into humans;

    There is no intelligence pointing to a specific plot, but the U.S. shared its concerns last week with executives at domestic and international carriers.

    People traveling to the U.S. from overseas may experience additional screening at airports because of the threat, according to the Transportation Security Administration.

    I shiver at the thought of what the TSA is going to do to screen for this particular threat. And I don’t know what the TSA can do about people returning to the US from overseas – I’ve never seen a TSA employee at a foreign airport. Unless they’re going to search us when we arrive for some stupid reason.

    I don’t see foreign security people being especially concerned about Americans returning home or taking advice from TSA on screening procedures.

  • TSA searching Depends

    Old Trooper sends us a link to an article about Transportation Security Administration searching the adult diaper of a 95-year-old woman in the final stages of her battle against leukemia.

    [Jean Weber’s] mother, who was in a wheelchair, was asked to remove an adult diaper in order to complete a pat-down search.

    “It’s something I couldn’t imagine happening on American soil,” Weber said Friday. “Here is my mother, 95 years old, 105 pounds, barely able to stand, and then this.”

    Sari Koshetz, a spokeswoman for the Transportation Security Administration in Miami, said she could not comment on specific cases to protect the privacy of those involved.

    Yeah, when was the last time a 95-year-old woman in a wheelchair tried to bomb an airline with the bomb hidden in her diaper? I guess TSA is happy as long as no one is accusing them of profiling.