Three cheers for the Federal Government. END SARCASM:
Your Government @ Work - 3
A man was allowed to board a plane to Atlanta from Houston after all of the following:
a man with a Middle Eastern name and a ticket for a Delta Airlines flight to Atlanta shook his head when screeners asked if he had a laptop computer in his baggage, but an X-ray machine operator detected a laptop.
A search of the man’s baggage revealed a clock with a 9-volt battery taped to it and a copy of the Quran, the report said. A screener examined the man’s shoes and determined that the “entire soles of both shoes were gutted out.” No explosive material was detected, the report states.
A police officer was summoned and questioned the man, examined his identification, shoes and the clock, then cleared him for travel, according to the report. A TSA screener disagreed with the officer, saying “the shoes had been tampered with and there were all the components of (a bomb) except the explosive itself,” the report says.
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The TSA issued a statement saying its screeners “acted in accordance with their training and protocols.”
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Wow I’m getting warm and fuzzies all over thinking about the TSA’s 6 billion a year operation and all the great training and protocols in place. Apparently we do in fact need rocket scientists at the airports. I wonder if anyone will be smart enough to check this guy out if and when he leaves Atlanta on a flight.
Somebody's head should roll over that one. Hopefully some of them that like to push people around so much.