Posted on 05/24/2011 5:44:24 PM PDT by depressed in 06
As a less than frequent flyer, last time 5 years ago, I went through TSA security screening without my belt and shoes, passed thru the magnetometer and full body scan, the screener said that he needed to pat my butt, more like a athlete attaboy. But, then he wanted to swab my palms. Clean. Nothing he did seem unprofessional. Anyone have a similar experience?
I had made some hand loads two days before.
p.s. I put the one world citizen on “ignore.”
I have to 'share' this story because I just had a glass of wine.
I have a friend who broke his leg and needed a cast on his entire left leg but because he was a traveling salesman he had to keep working. He got a tailor to put a zipper in all his pants that went from his left ankle up to his crotch and down to his right ankle. That way he could get dressed even though he had that cast.
One day his car was broken into and all his clothes were stolen. He always wondered what the robbers thought when they found his pants that had a zipper from one ankle to the other. LOL
p.s. the TSA agents in SFO are perverts and rude
They are. They are extremely racist and hateful too. It's mostly Filipinos -- at least in the terminal where my parents fly in and out of. My mom, an attractive white woman, older but not elderly, is always hassled. She'll sit there and watch and only white women are dragged out of the main line.
I've had some fine affirmative action types in other airports paw through my stuff without any gloves (so I had to toss my LEGAL, expensive items since they hacked into them) and puff up their racism in my face.
I am a frequent traveler and use www.flyertalk.com. It’s a great site that gives good information about security and TSA. Also good info for individual airline frequent flyer programs.
I remember those days - right here in the good 'ol USA. I can't say that I remember the introduction of x-rays and metal detectors as I was too young and didn't fly much back then. But I do remember the days of seeing off and greeting friends and loved ones right at the gate. I also remember dear old dad drinking a can a beer in the family truckster on a family vacation across the country while no one wore a seat belt and my siblings and I took turns napping in the back of the rear window dash. That's gone too. It might not have been safe, but it was freedom and a fond memory. All of these "few seconds" are now gone.
Sometimes I think I am on DU...
I wouldn't know. I've never been there, not even for a "few seconds".
My wife’s laptop bag failed the swab test. After prolonged questioning, we concluded it had been sitting near the gun safe, hence the result.
She was pissed when I later observed that my bag had passed the test - despite being my range & ammo-storage bag.
Well said.
I’ve found the Filipinos to be very polite. The (obese) black females are Racist! with a capital R. They do not like white females and they never pull blacks out of the line for their invasive searches. SOBs.
Yeah, I don’t know personally, I guess not in my mom’s experience — and she’s a nice person, i.e not projecting a ‘tude or going around looking for trouble.
But, I agree with you 1 million percent about the obese black racists!!! That’s exactly the last one who pawed through my stuff without gloves, hacking and mean.
It seems like that’s the case too much of the time — on video or in real life, you see these white people in positions of surrender (especially in
the radiation machines) and the black ones getting a kick out of humiliating us. Repatriation.
Simple questioning, yes, but not in the disgustingly intrusive manner we have been putting up with since the Bush admin saddled us with organisations such as TSA and DHS. People weren't treated as if everyone was a criminal.
You are living a fantasy.
Quite the patriot you are.
>>Simple questioning, yes, but not in the disgustingly intrusive manner we have been putting up with since the Bush admin saddled us with organisations such as TSA and DHS. People weren’t treated as if everyone was a criminal.<<
Of course we were. I was was frequent flyer before 9/11 and I assure you it was the same, just not with matching uniforms. In fact in some cases it was worse, since there wasn’t even a theoretical link between their jobs and us, the individuals flying.
You either didn’t fly much or disremember badly.
>>You are living a fantasy.<<
Well, I do it to the tune of 200,000 miles a year. If it is a fantasy I must be awful at visualization.
Bottom line: It ain’t that bad. Man up and suck it up, or stay home and let the government dictate to you where you can and can’t go.
As I have said over and over — I choose freedom.
Head on FRiend... I will agree.
You belong on DU.
>>Quite the patriot you are.<<
No, just a realist who doesn’t get his knickers in a twist when The Man makes rules that give me the boo boo lip.
>>You belong on DU.<<
says the slave to the government.
The irony is palpable.
It just hit me — YOU ARE AFRAID TO FLY!
That is why you toss off such clearly ignorant and ad hominem comments.
You haven’t argued anything. You just toss invective out since YOU DON’T FLY.
You don’t have a dog in this fight — but you have a pretend one that you call “spike.” he can beat every dog in the contest except the flesh and blood ones.
LOL... you really don’t get it. I think my hamster thinks he is free also.
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