Look, neither is appropriate.
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I’ve heard that it was ruled unconstitutional. Reports on its stoppage are mixed.
That said, i agree completely with your second sentence.
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A song dedicated to TSA screeners excessive pat-downs
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TSA allows for a pat-down of a teenage passenger, and in this case, all approved procedures were followed
That’s it right there. Because the TSA allows it and the TSA follows the TSA’s procedures, you have no business complaining.
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It means that they did an explosive test on the laptop it alarmed so the pat down occurred to resolve the machine’s alarm. Seasoned travelers have experienced this at some point, I know I have.
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A Mr Bento stainless-steel thermos would be perfect for budget no-meal flights, but even with the soup entree swapped for solid food, I cringe at what would go wrong at security.
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I agree with this sentiment, but that’s something that needs to be taken up with their headquarters at the local level they really can’t do anything. Then there’s the catch of they fail 95% of their tests, so they try and do something about it then its they’re taking it too far. They can’t win for anything.
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They have those already, but can only be used for baby or medically exempt liquids.
It must be something like that. It’s between the 2nd and 3rd paragraphs.
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The problem is … the facts are on their side. There haven’t been any terrorist attacks involving a plane since whenever the last one was. The shoe guy maybe or someone after him.
/s
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These f!#$%& need to be in jail.
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No leggings, ridiculous pat downs, screw it, I’m buying my own plane
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You want a win for the TSA? It starts with hiring smart people instead of the dregs who couldn’t even work at their local police department as a dispatcher.
It seems like hiring for people with critical thinking skills and a higher education degree would be too expensive to keep our country “safe”. Most of the people I encounter staffing these checkpoints are dumber than a bag of rocks, and just as likely to catch a terrorist.
I refuse to be patted down by GED-level little Eichmanns who had to take a 4 hour class on where my “resistance” bits are, and I hardly expect any of these frankly untrained idiots to spot a bomb or anything else dangerous besides a fucking unopened bottle of water.
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Sure it is inconvenient to go through this but then again I’ve been through worse screenings around the world even before 9/11.
Yeah, fair point. The grope down of this kid is obviously stupid, and he shouldn’t have had to go through it. But it’s no worse than the grope down I get when I decline to go through the screening machine (full stroke under the underwire of my bra, fingers through my hair to feel my scalp, etc etc…). And I imagine it is far less worse than the frisk downs that happen to people who are just guilty of living in a really racist and frightened society.
This is the new normal. And it’s fucked up that we’re only seeing viral outrage when it’s done to a white kid.
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What percentage of folks here who hate the TSA do you think are cool with racist ‘policing’?
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Except in Dubai and Tel Aviv, the security at least seems more professional and dispassionate. When I inevitably go through the full search with the TSA, I always feel like they are just trying to distract me so that their buddy can steal the camera out of my carry-on.
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While this was a bit extreme (especially that last touch, yech) a lot of us raver/club-kids have been through just this dozens and dozens of times just to get into a party. I don’t consider myself particularly traumatized due to this, and very similar TSA pat downs I’ve received (I used to refuse the scanners by default, don’t any more for non-X-ray scanners).
I still think TSA is awful and should be scrapped, it’s all perverted security theater BS. But I think the kid will survive intact, if his Mom doesn’t go out of her way to dement him over it, which is admittedly semi-likely, having had a Mom.
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