I suppose I’ll just take a cab. F’ing ridiculous.
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Checking for explosives isn’t part of valeting cars, and I’d much rather lose that job by telling the TSA to do theirs than risk my life. Any valet being told to do this should contact the ACLU.
ROC is decidedly not LHR. Each level of the parking structure is smaller than the lot for a modest supermarket. That building is separated from the 20-gate terminal by the width of four lanes of traffic, two sidewalks, and a median. Valet parking at our airport is either an accommodation to disability or a status symbol. Based on the handful of people I see actually using this service, the market that selects it is pretty obvious.
We have a habit here of pointing and laughing at peacocked trust-fund puppies who act like captains of industry while they milk their parent’s companies for the last dregs of value. Unfortunately, we have a lot to laugh at. It doesn’t in any way diminish the severity of the TSA’s misbehavior in this. But schadenfreude is one of the best entertainments left in this economically-troubled community.
Dear god and godette. This is only too damned close to the truth,I am sure. Fuck the TSA, they suck.
For all the people complaining that we should just elect new officials, that’s what we’ve been doing! And once they’re in office, they say “Oh actually that program I said I was going to change is surprisingly effective in a way I can’t explain because of secrecy! And I can’t tell you more about it because now I’m elected and I’m responsible for its secrecy.”
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Our heavily armed citizens have very few tanks, almost no fighter jets and zero long-range missles. That’s why.
Inside your car you can film whatever you want as long as you put a little sticker on the dash that says “by entering this vehicle, occupants concent to being recorded,” just like the TSA did with their bogus valet car screening program.
I’ve long had an idea to create a bumper sticker to put on the roof of the car near the driver’s door that reads “interactions with the contents of this car may be recorded for quality control purposes.”
The intent was always to inform any police officer hassling me, but I guess thanks to the TSA the potential applications are growing. Now we just need google to start selling a personal version of the camera ball so I can record everything happening around my car.
There’s a lot of reasons, but most of them have to do with the polarisation of the community into mutually antagonistic groups. Divide et Impera; and remember Stanley Milgram proved that most people just follow orders from their chosen authorities. If all the Tea Partiers, Occupiers, Paulites, “Patriots”, and racial/ethnic activists that would like to see free and fair elections were capable of working together for just one election cycle, they could smash all the voting machines in the country and we’d have true change very quickly.
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As the truth often is, that was beautiful.
So valets are trained bomb specialists now.
Do they also search the trunk? Most cars have valet keys that specifically don’t open the trunk. Which is where an actual bomber would presumably place his device.
This is, again, security theatre, with a special privacy invasion twist.
Fair 'nuff guv.
So glad that you and everyone you know are able-bodied.
Good lord don’t I only wish. But a half a dozen kinds of parking accommodation are available there for those of us who sometimes need them. They were for years before this horseshit valet service was introduced. And they will still be there even after this abuse kills the service off.
This may be true, but the rate at which incumbents get re- elected in the US is staggeringly high. People complain and complain again then re- elect the joker they’ve spent years complaining about.
I want to see the lawsuits fly if some valet gets hurt while performing this extra service. Of course the TSA will be unassailable, since they are the empowered, snotty, spoiled brat among government agencies, and never have to answer for anything.
True enough. What’s really frustrating is when someone new comes in and does a far worse job (like my state’s Tea Party governor). So I think sometimes, people think “Well, the devil you know…” without realizing hey, they’re STILL a devil.
It counts as a government search as it is being done at the direct behest and under the authority of a law enforcement agency. This is old case law and is pretty well settled at all levels. (I am not a lawyer but did work for 25 years in Intelligence). A cop cannot order a citizen to go search something just to evade Constitutional or legal restrictions.
if they simply asked attendants to note anything suspicious and report it, they’d be on a lot firmer grounds but ordering someone to carry out a search for you essentially deputizes them fo that purpose.
So, if i tip the valet, is that now bribery?
Is it still legal to film unpaid operatives of the government?
Shit, now that I think of it… it’s probably illegal to even discuss it. So we’re already screwed…
I’m throwing you under the bus. It was @Boundegar 's idea!
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