{"id":23493,"date":"2011-05-19T13:34:36","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T17:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23493"},"modified":"2011-05-19T13:34:36","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T17:34:36","slug":"tsa-antics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23493","title":{"rendered":"TSA antics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Minneapolis, TSA decides to have a drill without telling everyone it&#8217;s a drill. From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/local\/minneapolis\/122200374.html\">Star-Tribune<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With their guns drawn, police surrounded a man who reportedly was trying to get through security at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport with a bomb in a carry-on bag.<\/p>\n<p>It was a drill, but the trouble was no one had told the cops, who thought it was real.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think a lot of people were alarmed,&#8221; Patrick Hogan, spokesman for the Metropolitan Airport Commission, said of last week&#8217;s incident. &#8220;There is always a danger that someone could have gotten hurt. It was unfortunate.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unfortunate? Is was downright careless. Armed dinguses running around with drawn pistols in a crowded airport terminal? Thinking they had real criminal with a real bomb. It&#8217;s sorta like Barney Fife getting the opportunity to pull that bullet out of his pocket finally, all shaking and jittery with excitement. <\/p>\n<p>I appreciate realistic training, but not involving or near the public. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, at LAX, TSA should be watching each other. A link from Old Trooper to <a href=\"http:\/\/abclocal.go.com\/kabc\/story?section=news\/local\/los_angeles&#038;id=8136360\">ABC News<\/a>; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Transportation Security Administration officer at LAX has been arrested for stealing from a traveler&#8217;s suitcase.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Driscoll, 31, was arrested on May 10 at Terminal 6. He faces a felony theft charge.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear exactly what he&#8217;s accused of taking. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr. Driscoll isn&#8217;t exactly inspiring confidence in TSA&#8217;s hiring practices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Minneapolis, TSA decides to have a drill without telling everyone it&#8217;s a drill. From the &hellip; <a title=\"TSA antics\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23493\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TSA antics<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}