Posted on 05/30/2007 2:18:45 PM PDT by SubGeniusX
Everyone in Los Angeles knows that when you are to "shoot a pilot", it involves grips, a gaffer, location managers and other key crew. Apparently this is a fact lost with the TSA bunch at Los Angeles International Airport. Cinematical's Scott Weinberg uncovered a gem regarding director Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas) and an allegedly true incident that went down at LAX.
Weinberg writes that Figgis was going through security at LAX "when he was asked the reason for his visit."
"I'm here to shoot a pilot," was what Weinberg claims Figgis responded.
The LAX immigration official took him at his word, thinking he was "here to shoot an airplane pilot with a gun."
Figgis, according to Weinberg, was kept locked up for about five hours until immigration officials could figure out the filmmaker's vernacular by checking online sources.
I feel safer......
sad....
we are DOOMED
When did you have to start giving a reason for a visit in the continental United States?
Har har har
I almost find this to be a joke. I can’t believe TSA is that stupid.
C'mon. We're talking about a government employee here. Is it really that hard to believe?
The cynic in me senses this is a PR move.
If you have a friend/associate named Jack, and you meet him anywhere in an airport, do not yell out “Hi Jack!”
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The others in Brown's party went on their Northwest Airlines flight to Minneapolis-St. Paul, where they waited on a bus at the airport. You see, the detained man was Staff Sergeant Daniel Brown, USMC Reserve, and he was traveling with the other members of his Marine Reserve Military Police unit, which was heading home to Minnesota from eight months of combat in Iraq. The Marines were in full uniform and all, including Brown, had travel orders and military identification cards.
After attempts to stonewall under claims of "security," TSA spokesmen finally admitted that Staff Sergeant Daniel Brown was placed on the no-fly list, and ultimately detained, because they had detected gunpowder on his footgear -- not on this flight, but on a prior flight, which earned Brown a permanent place on the TSA's mysterious terrorist lists.
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Totally Standing Around...
Just wasted bandwidth.
Oh, please. Last January, upon returning to the States from the UK, my country's gatekeeper asked me what I'd been up to out of the country.
Just remember: They Hate Us Because We're Free.
The screeners have no discernible sense of humor
On the one hand I know that TSA is filled with mouth breathing retards, so this sounds plausible, but on the other hand I know that lying is normal for everybody in Hollyweird, so it might just be a BS story that got into the press.
geez, they have to go into “google” to learn what it means to shoot a pilot TV show? I’m not connected to the entertainment business but know what a pilot show is. I guess I thought it was common knowledge.
Unfortunately, I can.
It’s surgically removed.
>> The screeners have no discernible sense of humor
or discernable sense of anything else, for that matter.
Except that, judging by what I have overheard while in the screening area: they seem to have an excellent sense of who’s on break, who is next to go on break, what time the next break is, how many can be on break at a given time, how many extra minutes so-and-so has been on break when it’s their turn to go on break, and so forth.
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