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Former TSA employee: Common, easy, to steal from luggage
ABC interviewed a convicted TSA security officer who says it was “common” and “easy” to steal from passengers’ luggage, and that TSA didn’t really care. Carolina K. Smith, M.D. / Shutterstock.com A...
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Woman dying of leukemia says TSA humiliated her
Michelle Dunaj is dying from leukemia. Her doctors have given her three to four months to live. So she decided to take a once in a lifetime trip to Hawaii, something she’d always wanted to do. What...
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TSA now giving tips to terrorists
Sometimes I feel like people are being too mean to the TSA. Then I read stories like this, from the Washington Post the other day: Flight enthusiasts, however, recently discovered that the bar codes...
View ArticleTSA holds 12 y.o. girl in wheelchair for 1 hour, for ‘explosives’ (video)
The TSA has done a mostly good job lately of staying out of the news for being complete idiots, but with the holiday season approaching, we may be hearing more soon. In this case, the TSA held a young...
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85% of record-number of guns confiscated by TSA in 2012 were loaded
Pro-gun advocates never miss a chance to talk about how responsible gun owners are, though there are enough examples that show how false that theory is. The Sandy Hook shooter’s mom was a gun owner,...
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Tales of the TSA: Who brings fake grenades, a real garotte, in carry-on?
Some people really deserve to be in Gitmo. Who in their right mind would pack fake hand-grenades in their carry-on bag, or a real garrote wire for that matter (garrotes are used in spy movies (and...
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Body scanners to be removed from nation’s airports (at least the nude-imaging...
The TSA is dropping the use of it’s naked-imaging body scanners after the manufacturer said it couldn’t mask passengers’ naughty bits. From Bloomberg: The U.S. Transportation Security Administration...
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TSA saves America from crying 3 y.o. girl in wheelchair, takes her stuffed...
Missouri has been in the news a lot recently for all of the wrong reasons, including this recent ugly incident involving the TSA. The TSA insisted on checking a three-year-old girl in wheelchair, and...
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TSA to now allow pocketknives, but not “massive steel dildos”
The TSA’s ban on small pocketknives, wiffleball bats, hockey or lacrosse sticks and golf clubs will end late next month. It’s a positive change for the TSA, though it still is a far cry from admitting...
View ArticleTSA orders wheel-chair bound double-amputee Marine to “walk”
Even by TSA standards, this one is pretty bad. The TSA in Phoenix reportedly forced a wheel-chair bound double-amputee Marine vet, who lost both his legs in Afghanistan, to take off his prosthetic...
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TSA agent accidentally pepper-sprays colleagues, 6 hospitalized
A TSA agent just goofing around with a “laser pointer” he found on the ground at a security checkpoint, pointed it at five of his fellow TSA agents, pushed the button, and pepper-sprayed all of them –...
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Cancer is inconvenient, but missing your flight is death
The sequester has caused US members of Congress to face flights delays, and it’s caused seniors to be turned away from chemotherapy. Guess which one the US Senate fixed last night? The sequester is...
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TSA dog bites woman in stomach for no reason, she says (video)
A Georgia woman says she was waiting for her sister at Atlanta’s airport when a TSA officer walked by with a bomb-sniffing dog, and the dog suddenly bit her in the stomach, for no reason. She says she...
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TSA confiscates Chewbacca’s light saber
Famed Star Wars actor Peter Mayhew, who played the Wookie “Chewbacca” in the original Star Wars films, found himself in a bit of trouble last week in Denver when he was preparing to fly back home to...
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Is TSA now the Nipple Police?
Boing Boing founder Mark Frauenfelder has an interesting story about how his 15 year old daughter was verbally harangued by a TSA agent at LAX for reportedly not wearing age-appropriate clothing while...
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TSA is now the Belly-Button Police
Following on the heels of our story about an LAX TSA agent reportedly berating a 15 year old girl for wearing clothing that the agent deemed too provocative, a friend contacted me about a similar TSA...
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The insane things people still try to bring on airplanes
John and Chris have done a lot of reporting on the TSA this year, as the organization has had its fair share of privacy invasions, cultural faux paus, and instances of general incompetence. But, in...
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Tales of the TSA: “It’s not a gun, it’s a prop for my monkey”
The Transportation Security Agency (TSA) is back in the news for confiscating a toy monkey’s toy gun that’s all of 2 inches long. You really have to see the photo of the gun to appreciate how small it...
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TSA’s kids’ video
I was a bit surprised when I saw that TSA has a kids’ video, and was getting ready for a good laugh. But it’s actually not bad. I especially like the fact that all the characters are dogs, and the one...
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Brilliant parody of TSA’s security video for kids
Yesterday I posted a kids’ video from the TSA, walking children through airport screening procedures, presumably to make the whole experience less scary to kids. At this time, I said the video was ripe...
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