Posted on 07/15/2014 10:39:22 AM PDT by Dallas59
ORLANDO, Fla. —
It's something most of most students learn in elementary school -- the United States is made up of 50 states and the District of Columbia. But Channel 9's Justin Gray found out it's a lesson that an Orlando agent with the Transportation Safety Administration seems to have missed.
Gray, who lives in Washington, D.C., was flying out of Orlando International Airport when a TSA agent said Gray's District of Columbia driver's license wasn't a valid form of identification. Gray said his license is legal and up-to-date, but the TSA agent didn't seem to know what the District of Columbia was when Gray arrived at the security checkpoint over the weekend.
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The incompetence of our overlords could be our saving grace.
I’ve heard a story that a deputy sheriff in a rural Georgia county apprehended what he thought was a car load of illegal immigrants and took them to the county seat, well off their intended route. He knew that they were immigrants because of the New Mexico license plate on their car.
Like this?
The people in the District of Columbia don't know what they're supposed to be, either.
-PJ
Just the sort of quality employee we’ve all come to expect from the government.
How many tax dollars are going annually to support this imbecile?
“If you want to confuse other people use 2 dollar bills.”
Or one of the many $1 coins the feds have tried to foist on us over the years.
Their standards aren’t that high.
The agent may have a point.
Just sayin....
Columbia is the capital of South Carolina. They thought it was in Washington?
Yeah, but if you can actually do more than that, you can't work there.
Ah, someone who remembers the Juan Valdez coffee commercials. I still chuckle over an item on a gag list of the top 10 signs that you may drink too much coffee; you receive a personal letter from Juan Valdez.
Only students in Indonesia are taught that there are 57 states.
Word.
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