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Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2010 2:15 pm
by Leisher
I wonder what would happen if after you got padded down you turned to the guy who did it and said something like:
"Can I ask you a question? Who grows up with the dream of having a job where they get to play with other men's junk all day?"
When he gets mad call him a homophobe.
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2010 2:20 pm
by GORDON
I was wondering what would happen if, when getting the pat down, you LOUDLY exclaim, "Hey, stop touching my penis!"
Better yet: have your kids yell it.
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Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2010 3:31 pm
by TPRJones
I'm currently refusing to fly because I wouldn't be able to resist doing something to piss them off probably more than I should. Things I've considered:
1) loudly faking orgasm upon contact with my junk
2) stripping completely naked in the middle of the checkpoint screaming "if you want to see it here it is you son of a bitch"
3) teabagging the TSA agent when he crouches down in front of me
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2010 3:36 pm
by GORDON
I got lippy last time I flew out of LAX when they got lippy with me. Dangerous, but I just couldn't help it. I get angry just getting in the line. My anger was worse that time because that was the first time I had to take off my belt. Christ.
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2010 4:54 pm
by TheCatt
Seriously? The times I've worn belts (I honestly try to fly in short and a t-shirt to avoid having to take anything off), I've always taken them off.
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2010 5:16 pm
by Malcolm
GORDON wrote:Argument for it I keep reading over and over is "Well you let your doctor touch you, this is just like that because it is their job."
They also presumably suffered through years of medical schooling. I'm halfway convinced most TSA employees would fuck up spelling their names.
And I only see the doctor a few times a year. & it's pretty much ONE doctor, not a legion of incompetent rent-a-cop security rejects who couldn't make the cut for meter maid or traffic cop.
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2010 5:19 pm
by Malcolm
TheCatt wrote:Seriously? The times I've worn belts (I honestly try to fly in short and a t-shirt to avoid having to take anything off), I've always taken them off.
Always got to take off the belt and shoes up here. & unpack (then repack) my laptop, toothpaste, contact cleaning solution, etc.
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2010 5:21 pm
by Malcolm
TPRJones wrote:I'm currently refusing to fly because I wouldn't be able to resist doing something to piss them off probably more than I should. Things I've considered:
1) loudly faking orgasm upon contact with my junk
2) stripping completely naked in the middle of the checkpoint screaming "if you want to see it here it is you son of a bitch"
3) teabagging the TSA agent when he crouches down in front of me
4) "By the way, my venereal diseases have really been acting up lately, so there's probably a few kinds of discharge that might have soaked through my pants fabric, but go right ahead."
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2010 5:42 pm
by GORDON
TheCatt wrote:Seriously? The times I've worn belts (I honestly try to fly in short and a t-shirt to avoid having to take anything off), I've always taken them off.
Through the 90's it was just the metal detector, and maybe the wand if you beep.
At some point after 9/11 it became the shoes.
The first time I had to take my belt off was late 2008. Your mileage may vary, but that was my first time.
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2010 6:41 pm
by GORDON
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2010 7:00 pm
by GORDON
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2010 8:27 pm
by TheCatt
I hope Janet dies.
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2010 10:23 pm
by Malcolm
Recently saw on the news...
Apparently, airports can opt out of using TSA personnel & hire out to private security firms. Less than 20 do so. The MSP airport is considering becoming one of them. I'm cautiously optimistic.
Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2010 2:39 pm
by thibodeaux
http://www.texasrainmaker.com/2010....mpanies
an airport may submit to the Under Secretary an application to have the screening of passengers and property at the airport under section 44901 to be carried out by the screening personnel of a qualified private screening company
My emphasis. I'm sure they'll approve all the apps, too. Real quick-like.
Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2010 3:35 pm
by TheCatt
Democracts back stripsearches.
"Mr. Pistole, you're doing a great job," Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat and chairman of the Senate committee overseeing air travel, told TSA chief John Pistole, a former FBI agent who's had the job since July. For emphasis, Rockefeller added a few minutes later: "I think you're doing a terrific job."
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat, admitted right away that "I have been a fan of the advanced imaging technology." American air travelers, she said, "have to understand that this is being done for their best interests and their safety."
Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat, suggested that the public outcry was a problem of education: if Americans learned more about the TSA's new procedures, they wouldn't object to the new searches.
Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2010 3:56 pm
by Malcolm
Someone needs to post that shit on Daily KOS. Where's your messiah now, assholes?
Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2010 4:29 pm
by GORDON
Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat, suggested that the public outcry was a problem of education: if Americans learned more about the TSA's new procedures, they wouldn't object to the new searches.
Why lately does this shit always come down to "If the people weren't so stupid they'd be fine with it; I guess we just need to use smaller words?"
Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2010 4:44 pm
by Malcolm
GORDON wrote:Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat, suggested that the public outcry was a problem of education: if Americans learned more about the TSA's new procedures, they wouldn't object to the new searches.
Why lately does this shit always come down to "If the people weren't so stupid they'd be fine with it; I guess we just need to use smaller words?"
All the Congressional folk get their own private jet-type things to fly on, don't they? Do they even fucking remember what it's like to travel via normal shitty passenger airliners?
Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2010 5:54 pm
by TheCatt
I don't know. I was flying out of RDU 1.5 years ago, and David Price was flying at the same time, and going through security with me.
He go held up cuz the TSA didn't recognize his special Congressional ID.
Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2010 5:59 pm
by TPRJones
Good.
As a general rule of thumb, all government personnel (with the exception of front-line military troops or emergency personnel responding to a crisis) should be required to deal with the lowest level of shit they put their citizenry through. And I'm including the President in this.
I want to see how Obama feels about the TSA after scans of Sasha and Malia get leaked to the internet. Probably not so good.