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To you and me who understand how they work, no they are not scary. To a TSA agent who probably has only a high-school education, a power trip, and was raised i
by acabal 14y ago
To you and me who understand how they work, no they are not scary.
To a TSA agent who probably has only a high-school education, a power trip, and was raised in a culture where movie supervillains use bombs that look just like that, yes, it's scary.
The right thing to do would have been to stop him in the line, bring in some kind of expert to look it over, then let him get on to the plane. It looks like they started on that path, but then went too far. That's where my questions come in.
- JonnieCache 14y agoOr one could choose not to employ such incompetent people to do such a supposedly important job. Unfortunately that would threaten the margins, which is what this is really about. (These people are employed by private contractors, yes? If they're employed by the state, then why are they hiring such morans?)
- URSpider94 14y agoNope, in all but a few airports (SFO being one), they are directly employed by the TSA, a Federal agency. This was an upshot of 9-11, when private contractors were criticized for hiring inappropriate employees.
- mistercow 14y ago>To a TSA agent who probably has only a high-school education, a power trip, and was raised in a culture where movie supervillains use bombs that look just like that Well there's your problem right there. I'm not sure how any argument based on that premise can be a justification for how the TSA agents did anything approaching the right thing in this situation.