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TSA Says Passengers Only Have Themselves to Blame For Long Lines
MSN.com ^ | 5/30/16 | Staff

Posted on 05/30/2016 2:01:18 PM PDT by Nachum

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To: HollyB
Another interesting international airport is Singapore. For the most part, you don't even know you are going through security checkpoints.

There is no main long line. There are metal detector portals at little nodes along the way. Sometimes you realize it, sometime you don't.

When you are in the waiting area, sometimes these cute little petite uniformed female security guards come by with a wand and politely asks your permission to wand you and/or your luggage. Nobody ever says no.

They still catch their share of riff-raff which tries to smuggle drugs and, after convictions and appeals, treat them to a swinging time at the nearby Changi Prison.

101 posted on 05/30/2016 5:43:02 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: Vigilanteman

Very interesting idea!


102 posted on 05/30/2016 5:51:26 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: Nachum

A week or two ago I heard that from time to time TSA people are pulled from their TSA airport jobs to staff liberal (Hillary, I believe) events. True? I don’t know.


103 posted on 05/30/2016 5:51:36 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Trump loves America and will protect the people who live here first, last and always. - Coulter)
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To: Nachum

A week or two ago I heard that from time to time TSA people are pulled from their TSA airport jobs to staff liberal (Hillary, I believe) events. True? I don’t know.


104 posted on 05/30/2016 5:51:37 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Trump loves America and will protect the people who live here first, last and always. - Coulter)
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To: Nachum

I understand what they mean. On a recent trip to Aruba I had to take a Nebulizer and my CPAP machine. One was in carry on and one has it own case. Had I been prepared I would have had the machine parts of those machines in one of their boxes. I put them through as is and it required a hand search and rescan of both my bags. I’m sure that my stupidity that day could have made someone miss their flight. I could have avoided this had I thought about the motors in the bags.


105 posted on 05/30/2016 5:55:54 PM PDT by kempster
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To: Dirt for sale

“I have never walked through one of the full body scan machines because it is just begging for cancer. Consequently, I have been groped many times in airports,”

I do the machines because of an artificial hip which ALWAYS makes the walk-through beep. The hip shows up clearly in the naked machine so there should be no question. Still... I get pulled aside and groped anyhow. It’s to control and humiliate and has nothing to do with security.


106 posted on 05/30/2016 5:58:18 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Trump loves America and will protect the people who live here first, last and always. - Coulter)
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To: Nachum

Yes waaay past time to shut er down.


107 posted on 05/30/2016 5:58:31 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Nachum

What an enormous load of incompetent sh*t!


111 posted on 05/30/2016 6:42:51 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: FlingWingFlyer
You know what really rankles me about all this?

When it was first formed (the TSA, I mean), the Dems loudly and repeatedly told us, “If you want to professionalize, you must Federalize!”

It was bunk then, and it's bunk now, but the difference is, time has validated me.

Not that that will make any difference...

CA....

113 posted on 05/30/2016 8:29:53 PM PDT by Chances Are (Seems I've found that silly grin again....)
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To: Jonty30

A thousand pardons for my hip replacement. I get scanned, wanded, checked for explosives and groped every time.

Whatever it is the Israelis are doing, I’d like to take the TSA money and put it toward that.


114 posted on 05/30/2016 10:22:52 PM PDT by ntnychik
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To: Nachum

Had a preview of what is going on now at a number of the major airports last summer when I had gotten to the Hartford/Springfield Bradley International Airport when I was going to a Bible conference in PA. I go to the airport ahead of time, but there were LINES.

If I go back to the Bible, I will look at the Amtrak trains.


115 posted on 05/31/2016 3:33:12 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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Given the reporting, I'd say nutcase rather than terrorist. The shooter SPECIFICALLY said he wanted to shoot TSA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Los_Angeles_International_Airport_shooting

116 posted on 05/31/2016 3:42:34 AM PDT by Salgak (You're in Strange Hands, with Tom Stranger. . .)
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To: Biggirl

Just went through the process at BWI. 5 minutes. Had TSA Pre.


117 posted on 05/31/2016 3:49:49 AM PDT by sauropod (Beware the fury of a patient man.)
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To: ntnychik
The big difference is that the Israelis profile PEOPLE whereas the TSA profiles STUFF. There was an article posted here a few years ago about how the Israelis are watching PEOPLE from the time they drive into the airport until they board the plane. They know what to look for and don't give a $#*+ about somebody special's feelings getting hurt.

As a result, they run the safest airports and airline in the world.

118 posted on 05/31/2016 4:28:58 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: Nachum

Few years ago, a Brit on vacation here bought 3 “cowboy” single action revolvers privately. Had no idea they were not permitted on aircraft. TSA at Orlando - Sanford airport never detected.

They have since been replaced by private screening firm.


119 posted on 05/31/2016 9:16:52 AM PDT by Strac6 (The primaries are only the semi-finals. ALL THAT MATTERS IS DEFEATING HILLARY IN NOVEMBER.)
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