TSA? Try SNAFU
by David Benzion · 09/25/2007 7:11 amLongtime readers of LST will no doubt recall this classic pic, snapped by KSEV host Edd Hendee at Reagan National Airport on 1/9/02 (for which he was briefly detained).
What could be funnier than that?
Try this.
(h/t Dean Shaddock at Detroit Metro Concourse A)
UPDATE: LST member Fasternu 426 has “enhanced” the photo.
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Guess the Nuns habit looked like a burka to this idiot
When I can leave my shoes on and stop walking through security in my socks, that will be some progress.
You know how dangerous nuns are. Them Catholics are responsible for the Crusades ya know!
/sarc
SNAFU-indeed !
our republican administration at work
Sorry Gaddy, but I believe you’ll find it is only Democrats in Congress and their ACLU buddies raising hell about TSA profiling.
“only Democrats in Congress and their ACLU buddies raising hell about TSA profiling.”
At the behest of their puppet master CAIR the unindicted terror co-conspirator.
Edd’s pic should win a Pulitzer–except he’s not a “journalist” and so not eligible. Pity.
When my step mom (72 yrs young) flew from Atlanta to Houston she was searched, and just plain harrassed. Her walker was even considered a weapon. They nearly had her in tears. And this in the name of security while the obvious middle eastern men were allowed through without a glance.
When I took th picture (flash was obvious) the red coat from Delta ran out and detained me! I chuckled and asked him “Am I being arrested by Delta? I don’t even fly your airline!” Insanity. He and his supervisor saw nothing irregular about the scene I photographed. The guy with the wand had a name tag - “Mohammed” and the woman in the headscarf was going through his wife’s luggage. I’m sure they’re still there - probably got a couple of promotions and 4 weeks vacation a year by now.
edd
My last few years at HPD were at IAH. I could tell you stories! It’s worse than you think.
I had a Continental employee that I sat for about two hours with talking near the checkpoint at terminal C. A person came to the exit from the wrong side and wanted to ask a question. I walked about ten feet and answered the lady’s question. I then talked to the security guard for a minute or two. Then I turned around and the Continental employee demanded real loudly and forcefully that I show my ID (I had apparently crossed the invisible line separating the secure from non secure area). I made a smart alec comment and showed it. She wanted everyone to konw she was in charge of the checkpoint and that she was on the job! That’s just one of many!
Then there’s the guy who tried to board with a parachute! They let him through the checkpoint!! We stopped him. I made a DB Cooper joke and the moron Delta employee didn’t know who DB Cooper was.
Hmm, ole DB hasn’t been mentioned in a long time. Anybody still looking for him/his corpse?
This reminds me of the scene at the start of one of the Airplane movies, where a fully armed terrorists walks through a metal detector and no one bats an eyelash at him.
Then a harmless little old lady with a walker goes through, the detector beeps, and armed security shoves her up against the wall, guns drawn, yelling at her like she is the most dangerous criminal in the world.
Sadly, life is imitating art. What was once a hilarious punchline in a comedy movie in 1980 is now reality.
This is the problem I keep having when I go through the metal detector:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7hPjPKCFwQ
Once I saw a security guard wanding a guy in shorts. (This was right after 9-1-1 but before TSA) She was running it up his bare leg. Me being me, said real loudly to her (so everyone else could hear) “Yeah, check that leg real good, it could be fake!” The guy being checked started laughing….
I had a high school teacher that used to dress up as a priest when he traveled. Said it got him favorable treatment & free drinks. Saintly he was not.
Did I see some bonehead blaming democrats?
WOW! A little sarcasm and no outrage. God Bless Amerika.
Dang, Faster, I thought it was going to be a mass of guns.
Now I am at risk from Mahmood Imanutjob thought restructuring.
Faster
6 Years ago I visited Miami. I do not like those little mini bottles and when I boarded the plane I had a full fifth of Passport And sometimes in long standing situations I have a beautiful cane I carry. A potential deadly weapon. Carried it right through with no scanning. Just before landing a stewardess put it overhead for me.
And 5 years before that I accidentally loaded with a Browning Hi Power in my belt. And to make it worse I realized what I did and declared it to the pilot. He asked to see it and when I handed it to him he pulled the hammer back, pointed it to the front and pulled the trigger. Good thing I did not have one chambered.
Security at Bush is Nil.
#17 Oh yeah I forgot, theonlypatriot, its no one’s fault but Chimpy Bushitler and his one world government cabal. Nothing is ever anyone’s fault unless you say it is.
Funny story about airports
My Father was a pilot in the USAF. And this story was decades ago.
When a Hurricane heads towards an Air Force base the planes are shuttled out ASAP. Tampa was getting ready for a big one so the B-47’s had to be shuttled to Selma Al. The crew grabs one and gets it to Selma and has to take a commercial flight back for another.
Pilot, Co Pilot, Navigator standing in line at the ticket counter. Flight suits, Flight Helmets in hand, parachutes etc. When they stepped in line everyone looked back and saw them. Everyone took them to the front of the line and than they all went to a different airline.
I don’t agree that any TSA employee should wear religious getups - all should be in a single uniform. However, I would like to know how anyone would be able to verify that someone was a real nun and not some nutjob just dressed up like one (see #16). All it would take is the muslims realizing that dressing like a nun or priest (or whatever) would get them a free pass and what little security we had would be irrelevant. And I would like to add that we need to do profiling. If someone is a young male arab, then he gets searched and so do his bags - PC be dam***.
Would you trust these nuns?
#22 - dcgirl if ONLY simple common sense could be applied!!!
(there we go wishfully thinking again..)
#23 - sitting AND standing at the same time! (Lawd knows what ‘other’ talents they may possess?)
Most of the security at Bush is subbed out to private companies.
I had a young lady who previously worked for me call me and ask if I would give her a good reference, which I would have.
She got hired, got her uniforms, and was scheduled to work the following day to train as a scanner.
NO background check, no previous employment check. Nothing. The security at some of these airports is plum stoopid. Now fly into another country and you will see some security. And usually it is provided by the Military.
#26 - you’re ab so LUTE ly right sir - and military folks at an airport are only new and different “here” - I’ve witnessed AKs and nasty looking uniformed folks in airports since the mid 60’s……..
Boy I would hate to have to be the screener who had to check under a burka. I have passed some in a store that you could be an aisle over and smell that thay are Ripe. For the ultra muslim female it is not permitted for her to touch her “privates” in any way and eewwww
Fly into Mexico City and see the security. Automatic weapons and soldiers every where. America has been lazy in security far too long and now we have to tighten up.
“America has been lazy in security far too long”
No, Dov, they are too gutless. No one wants to offend anyone. On 9-1-1 I worked at the airport. I brought an AR-15 to work with me. They freaked! I put it away, but where I had access!! They don’t mean business, they just want to appear like it.
I could care less about being PC when it comes to my family and friends.The Euroweenies have had airport security far longer then us and America had best wake up befor it is too late, if it isn’t already.
Mentioning the AK. I grew up with several fully auto weapons in the home. (Licensed gun dealer) And people would freak every time the guns came out. The tax stamps for them were a killer as I recall.
When Lovely Daughter and I were returning from Italy, we were never out of sight of a machine gun carrying Italian soldier. I found it an curiosity at first, then wondered if they had problems, then realized that No, they didn’t have problems.
Duh.
I thought this was a sacrifice ALL Americans were supposed to make? I thought the war on terror was a group effort? I thought we were supposed to put safety and America ahead of convenience?
28 - That can apply to a woman of any race.
This thread dead yet?
Guess not. You posted here,