Posted on 09/13/2014 5:36:34 PM PDT by BulletBobCo
Last Saturday, Kahler Nygard took a Spirit Airlines flight to Denver to visit with friends. When he departed from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, Transportation Security Administration agents patted him down and allowed him to board his flight. When the plane landed, he was singled out and ordered to exit before the other passengers. After he exited the aircraft, TSA agents approached Nygard and demanded that he go through an additional pat-down and a screening of his luggage for explosive materials.
He had already arrived safely at his destination in Denver and simply wanted to leave the airport. After an argument, which can be seen in the above video, Nygard refused the pat-down, despite the fact that TSA agents claimed that he would be arrested if he did not comply, and exited the airport without incident. According to KMSP-TV Fox 9 News, Nygard flew back to Minnesota yesterday without any complications.
KUSA-TV notes that Nygard indicated that he knew that he had been placed on the FBI’s “no fly” list around three years ago, despite not being told why, and took the flight to Denver in an effort to see if he was still on the list. However, he was apparently downgraded to a lower-level watch list that labeled him as a “Quad S” passenger. Passengers carrying the label “SSSS” on their boarding pass are forced to undergo additional scrutiny during TSA pre-flight screenings. Nygard says he believes he was placed on the list because he posted on anti-government websites, but describes his own advocacy as being against government corruption, rather than the government itself.
The plot thickened when TSA agents working at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport started forgetting the extra checks on Quad S passengers.
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They treat passengers like crap now. I try not to fund their rmployment.
Oh, for the old Southwest Airlines days......sigh
you get a boarding pass at the check in que, then check you bags with the agent
Thanks W for the TSA!
Right?
Maybe the airlines should be run like a business again, not an ‘arm’ of the Government.
Let the airlines set policies, have competitive prices, let the Airports be Private also.
If forced to be competitive the airlines would individually have to vie for customers and they will charge what they feel they HAVE to charge to make a buck.
The Govt runs a ‘one size fits all’ and are more worried about hurting someone feelings than the safety etc of the passengers and crew.
“Fortunately, I have never posted to a website that is critical of the government.”
That’s very good of you. It shows great restraint not to call the present alphabet soup agencies and administration something like “M#%$^%$-F#%$^&** A$#%^*^% scum sucking douche-bags.”
We would NEVER want someone to think that we would expect that those that lord over - I mean - benevolently look out for us to actually know and follow the constitution!!!
My wife and I use to frequently fly PSA on the west coast in the 1970s (different airline than the current PSA Airlines). The stewardesses were beautiful, and wore attractive outfits including hot pants. Always smiling and friendly, and would have friendly conversations with passengers. It truly was a joy to fly back then.
My government contractor company screwed up my expense report payments for travel for many months and I could not get it resolved from a remote location. The way I had to book travel immediately after that (other employees booking my travel and expensing reports since my company credit card got cancelled) got me put on the SSSS watch list even though all of my travel was for government contracts. I got detained every flight for several years after that, but always got to board the flight. I got detained when traveling with my wife to visit her parents in Jakarta, Indonesia. I got detained leaving Jakarta and then I got detained trying to leave Tokyo, Japan. I really did not know if I would get home as these “security” forces treated me like a terrorist. I doubt any TSA incident news reports.
When I flyby myself I have no problems getting through TSA and security. When Hubby flies with me we get pulled for the full Monty every single time. They flag us at check in. Someone told me once that it is his military record. Have no clue why but it happens every time.
When I say I was detained in Jakarta and Tokyo, I am not saying delays at the gate, I mean taken to a cell.
yeah that's true,,,
I bet we have a couple “Quad S” listers here.
>>Individuals known to pose a threat to aviation who are on this list will not be issued a boarding pass and are not allowed to fly.<<
That infers that no Mohammedan is allowed to fly on a commercial aircraft. Right?
I could think these things, of course, but I would never post them to the Internet.
ihre ausweis bitte...
Yea...it dates me too. I’m and old retired has been I guess. But it sure seems those times were awfully good. I guess all us old buzzards are like hat!!!
Indeed
Maybe all of us
Fortunately???
If the government 4 S’d everybody that was critical of them the airlines would have to file Chapter 7 !!!
My guess is no one on FR has been 4 S’d.
As cocky as this guy was I also wonder if he doesn’t have some “friends” over-seas or “something” that got him on the 4 S list.
I personally have to fly frequently and I am glad the TSA is trying, with limited talent, to keep the 72 virgin seekers from blowing up my plane!!!
It’s still kinda fun for me, as long as I can sit next to a window.
The most trouble I ever had with the TSA was when they confiscated a glass jar of SC peaches from my carry-on at Greenville. She mentioned something, I think, about their possible explosiveness at altitude. I tried to give them to the female agent, but she told me she wasn’t allowed to receive gifts.
“What’ll happen to them?” I asked, to which she told me they’d be put into the “general inventory”.
Immediately the end of “Raiders Of The Lost Ark” came to mind.
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