Today we have an unprecedented double rage day...
Daniel Rubin: An infuriating search at Philadelphia International AirportAt what point does an airport search step over the line? How about when they start going through your checks, and the police call your husband, suspicious you were clearing out the bank account?
That's the complaint leveled by Kathy Parker, a 43-year-old Elkton, Md., woman, who was flying out of Philadelphia International Airport on Aug. 8.
Read the whole article. Apparently the TSA took it upon themselves to play detective and snoop around inside Mrs. Parker's purse. Alarmed by the checks they found, they accused her of cleaning out her joint bank account with her husband and fleeing - going so far as to call her husband about it.
Someone please fill me in where this fits in with airport/airplane security? Last time I checked, TSA was supposed to make sure we weren't bringing items on board the airplane that could cause harm to other passengers or damage the aircraft. They weren't little Dick Tracy's discerning someone's intent from the contents of their purses...
And folks wonder why we drive everywhere...
That is all.
7 comments:
There are a LOT of cop wannabes in the TSA. Little authoritarians that get off on that superior power relationship.
Yet another reason to fire all of them.
WTF!! that is WAAAAY over the line.
Lawsuit BIG TIME... its not to often I am for lawsuits, btw.
I'm with PISSED, time to bring in the lawyer so she can deposit another fat check...hell, make that two, one from Philly and one from TSA.
I wonder how annoying security is for trains...
Holy hell...There's no way to know if she had just cleaned out the bank account as part of fleeing an abusive relationship. Seems it all worked out well enough, but what they did could have very literally endangered that woman's life.
They weren't little Dick Tracy's...
I think little dicks are at the center of most of their problems.
Holy. Crap.
I'd be beyond furious. Possibly to the point of being incarcerated after successfully inserting that asshole's head into his, well, asshole.
We drove to my brother's wedding and back even though the trip ended up being about eight hours each way. That's a short jaunt for some of you folks, but it's a long'un for us. Still well worth it because it was a lot cheaper than flying and we didn't have to deal with any power-tripping TSA employees who probably couldn't cut it at a private-sector job.
There are no words to describe this.
Well one.
FAIL!!!!
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