Posted on 07/05/2012 8:04:36 AM PDT by rawhide
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - Passengers say their problem is not with the rules at the airport. They understand why drinks are not allowed through security, but when they buy one while they wait for their flight, they say the TSA should not ask to test it.
Passengers say traveling is a big enough stress, but now some are worried the drinks they are getting are not safe.
The TSA would not say what they are testing for or why they are doing it, but travelers say they have a right to know.
"I'm always glad that my safety is a priority, I just think testing drinks after they've already been bought might be a little extreme," infrequent flyer Jennifer Smart said.
"The water or or the juices or anything you buy here in the airport, TSA is going to come over and look and check and test it? That's just ridiculous," world traveler Thomas Burgard said.
We asked the TSA about the drink testings and they said, "TSA employees have many layers of security throughout airports. Passengers may be randomly selected for additional screening measures at the checkpoint or in the gate at any time."
Passengers we spoke to also said they think the price of drinks are too expensive. If security is going to test them, it should be before they are purchased, so they do not waste their money.
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The secure area is not secure?
“Finish your drinks before you board. Ain’t that hard to do.”
I don’t want to finish my drink before I board. I buy a drink to take on the plane so that I have a drink with me and am not left at the mercy of the beverage service, whenever they feel like coming around.
I was at O’hare a few years ago waiting for my wife to come out of the restroom after we got off the plane. I was waiting near the “do not cross” area but there was no line painted on the floor or anything. So I set down my computer next to the wall and wait.
Meanwhile I’m curious about the odd structure in the ceiling so I wander about 20’ from my computer (always keeping my eye on it since it is my company comtuter) and check it out. Then I start back to my computer and alarms go off all over the place. Some lady behind me tells me to stop and I say, “hey, let me get my computer first”. She yells again and I stop. Then I say, I’m just getting my computer and I went ahead and got it as she yelled again.
It could have turned out pretty bad I suppose but fortunately she was one of the lazy ones.
At ohare my daughter in law got a parking ticket without actually coming to a complete stop. :-)
I really hate Chicago in general. :-|
“I’m always glad that my safety is a priority,”
...this dumbass thinks they’re doing things, anything, for her safety. It’s these kinds of empty headed baboons that will always insure continued erosion on our freedoms and liberties.
>>”I’m always glad that my safety is a priority...”
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>Ha! What they’re telling you is that they’re not able to keep you safe, no matter how many security measures they take.
I was thinking more like “I’m wearing a condom while violating you: your safety is my business.”
I wish someone would invent the teleporter and we could do away with all the TSA non-sense.
a few months after 911, we flew with our three large bottles of booze bought on the cheap in Mexico and three large bottles of Mexican vanilla, all carried on.
NO! It's not. I'm sure that is the concern.
I fly 3 weeks out of 4. There are a LOT of people, working, inside the secure area that get very little scrutiny as they move in and out of this area, routinely.
I bet, they have received some specific threat of rings of employees, working inside the secure area, planning to smuggle in explosives to be carried by someone picking them up on the inside.
There are always ways... around security, for an enemy that is patient and cunning.
[ how do I know they did not contaminate it with something? ]
You don’t and just imagine them using a pipette to draw from the milk bottle being the same unwashed one that was being used to sample the opened half drank soda from someone who has an orally transmittable STD.....
I know it sucks but I am a bit of a germaphobe and I think of such things ALL THE TIME!
In May of 2006, I flew back from the UK with a bottle of Scotch and a bottle of Australian wine I’d won on the bus tour I’d been on. Brought it on board the planes in my backpack. At that time, there were no restrictions as to the amount of liquid you could carry onboard.
The passengers on that flight are lucky they survived. ;-)
Food and drink goes through many stages before it gets to the airport. And I’ll bet the food has some kind of muslim contact at each stage. The TSA is concerned that some terrorist has done something to the drink along the way. And it will be food next.
Why do it this way? Because, if they checked at other stages the muslims would scream discrimination. But the sheep who are trying to get on the plane will do anything they’re asked. When they groped us and not enough objected, that was that.
I don’t fly. I will never fly again. There’s nothing in this world I can’t do without seeing if I can’t drive to it.
probably looking for Astrolite G.
Why to we even put up with this crap. What a nation of fags America has turned into.
Also, the gropers might be able to find a plastic jar of liquid, but it might not show on the scanners. But on the other hand, why would not a successful liquid smuggler just leave their potion in the hidden jar, not carry it out in the open? And if the potion can be smuggled into the secured area... why not put THAT into a hidden jar? (Security will not complain if you bring an empty plastic jar through.)
This is all a huge charade. The truth seems to be that almost nobody bothers to try bringing something on a plane that would bring it down, because nosey passengers would probably notice something amiss in the suicide terrorist’s attempt to use it.
come here, they’re talking about you
As I am looking nationwide for work, I will fly, but sparingly. Thus far, I’ve come across one scan and no gropes. If groped, I think I will fart if possible.
It won’t happen. If it did, they would have to include food. If they include food, they would have to check everyones food at security, and that won’t happen as they do not have the assets to do this and it would take too much time.
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