Posted on 02/19/2005 4:42:49 AM PST by spectrout
Get "snippy" with an airlines' ticket agent and you may never see your luggage again.
That's the experience of Dr. Esha Khoshnu, a New Jersey psychiatrist traveling to San Diego to attend a conference.
While changing planes in Phoenix, Khoshnu got testy at a Mesa Airlines ticket counter, reports KGTV news, saying, "If I had a bomb, you wouldn't find it."
The Transportation Security Administration described Khoshnu as acting "mouthy and snippy," according to KGTV.
The bomb comment touched off a security scare and FBI officials were dispatched to question Khoshnu, who was subsequently detained long enough to miss her flight.
Her suitcase, however, got past security and was loaded onto the America West jet.
When Mesa Airlines Flight 6264 landed at Lindbergh Field in San Diego the pilot was instructed to taxi to a remote area of the airport where some 35 passengers were taken off the plane and escorted onto two buses, reports City News Service.
"When we landed and quickly did a U-turn on the runway, I was like, 'They never do that.' Then, all the cars started coming and it was obvious that it was for our plane. That was the scary part," one passenger told KGTV.
City News Service reports members of the San Diego Fire Department's bomb squad searched the plane but found no explosives. Next, they removed Khoshnu's suitcase and inspected it in an open area on the grounds of the airport.
Although they found nothing suspicious, authorities blew up the bag with an explosive charge and then doused it with water.
Khoshnu was eventually released and allowed to board a later flight to San Diego. KGTV reports the Assistant U.S. Attorney in Phoenix decided her actions did not merit charges.
Someone once told me that most psychiatrists are themselves crazy.
;-)
So I can honestly imagine that therapy session!
Yeah, they don't tend to have a sense of humor about such things.
Especially if yu ask to drive the plane around the tarmac, and then say, "Watch me make it do a donut!"
Never have seen a mentally stable shrink, come to think of it.
I hear they're a myth, like mermaids, unicorns, stress cards, hen's teeth, and honest trial lawyers.
LOL!
No, you are wrong.
You don't go into an airport and make stupid statements as this psychiatrist did.
Why are you so interested in excusing her stupidity?
Not that I can recall. However, I am reminded of one of the terrorists who tried to blow up the WTC in '93 and was caught after raising a ruckus while demanding that the deposit he paid on the (now blown-up) van he rented be returned to him.
Gross negligence and incompetence indeed. If they had held the baggage they wouldn't have had to go through that drill of isolating the aircraft or blowing up the luggage, which only compounded their idiocy.
This is just another reason why I refuse to subject myself to the TSA's antics and drive - over-reaction blended with the incompetence described above.
Ping to idiot NJ psychiatrist getting her luggage reduced to reeses pieces.
Red herring.
I fully explained my position on the issue.
You either did not read or did not comprehend my comments.
No you didn't.
Tell me why someone should be allowed to walk into an airport and say, "If I had a bomb you'd never find it."
Tell me why she should be allowed to say that.
and compassionate IRS agents..........
Heard tell that a few actually existed but were hunted to extinction.
Something like the dodo, fascinating but ultimately too dumb to adapt.
Thug? Do I smell an agenda?
TSA inspected the luggage and found no bomb.
TSA blew up the suitcase anyway.
Yep. Right after the idiot said "If I had a bomb, you wouldn't find it."
Conclusion: The TSA blew up her suitcase because she got "snippy" with a knuckledragging public servant.
Um, no. She made a statement that was alarming. They behaved in a cautionary manner. You obviously have a preconceived dislike for the TSA employees.
I think they hire ex meter maids now. Prerequisite is a heart of stone.
“…When Mesa Airlines Flight 6264 landed at Lindbergh Field in San Diego the pilot was instructed to taxi to a remote area of the airport where some 35 passengers were taken off the plane and escorted onto two buses, reports City News Service.”
"When we landed and quickly did a U-turn on the runway, I was like, 'They never do that.' Then, all the cars started coming and it was obvious that it was for our plane. That was the scary part," one passenger told KGTV.
Link to story in worldnetdaily
Handling this situation required emergency security procedures at two separate airports, the FBI, fire department, bomb squad, police, etc. – all at a cost to the taxpayer, and inconvenience of people and passengers at the airports.
This woman is lucky that they only blew up her suitcase and she was not charged with anything.
Her “bomb” comment was what caused her to give up her liberty. Not the fact that she was “snippy.” Had she said she they couldn’t have found a tampon or something equally harmless that she hid, it would have been different.
Don’t use Ben Franklin’s phrase wrongly – it is my favorite, and on my wall. She gave up her own liberties when she infringed on the rights of others to travel and work without the stress of a bomb scare.
And I still think the security failed miserably when it did not remove her baggage prior to the flight. That the baggage traveled, ironically, proved her own snippy comment.
*whimpering*
It's worse when they hire the cute ex-meter maids.
*sigh*
Notice they didn't say that "she posed a slight security risk", only that she was "mouthy and snippy". Nothing she did merited even a grand jury investigation, let alone an attempt at prosecution. This episode should be a lesson to all that the current TSA system is terribly broken.
I can hear the authorities telling her she can pick up her luggage. “Madame, we understand you were just a tad bit upset…so we have something here for you…
Just a hunk, a hunk of burnin love. A hunka hunka burnin love”
Dr. Khoshnu has been practicing psychiatry since finishing training at Yale University in 1993. She has extensive training/experience in crisis intervention, psychopharmacology, and psychotherapy. Her approach focuses on meeting the needs of the individual in order to provide wellness. She has long-term interests in recognizing and treating the special needs of women.
I saw some news story (video) where a hidden camera has caught the chef blowing his nose on the food of some guy he didn't like. I've never forgotten it.
Heck, I'm a good cook anyway. Soon cherries will be in season so I'll make some Cherries Jubilee..
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