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LaGuardia TSA lets passenger through without checking ID
My girlfriend hasn't had a valid ID for a few months now. The story has something to do with alcohol, a Jimmy Eat World concert and a giant squid (I think), but it's something I can tell later.In the time before she procures new identification from the great New York department of motor vehicles, she's been using various forms of expired ID to get into bars and onto planes across the country. It's kind of a dodgy way to go about business, but living in the financial world without a car, other things have priority.
At first she had trouble getting through security at the airport. Technically you can get past TSA without picture ID, mind you, it's just that you have to be subjected to secondary screening at the checkpoint and bring a couple other forms of ID. Once you get used to it though, it's really no big deal -- and she's adapted pretty well.
Passing through security at LaGuardia yesterday, she was prepared for the same questions. Instead however, in blatant disregard for protocol she just got waved through by the security officer. Nobody asked for ID. Anywhere.
Anyone else slip through security today?
Great job guys.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
SFPaul Jan 31st 2008 3:41PM
So what? You know how many lives have been saved by TSA in the past 30 years?
ZERO. None.
FYI, we were attacked with boxcutters on 9/11, not bazookas. Boxcutters were allowed on planes, there was no breach of security.
But it does not matter, terrorism is easy in a free society, and if you think that checking an ID before you get on the plane is the thing standing between you and death by Islamizoid, if you think the TSA is the thing saving you from dying in a giant fireball, or if you think that terrorists are going to try to breach security through a TSA checkpoint with fraudulent ID or weapons, then vote Bush again. If not, relax, there are no sleeper cells, there are no terrorists surrounding us ready to kill us. It is a fantasy.
If there were a bunch of terrorists around, there would be evidence (blood, arrests, failed and/or successful terror attacks, but there are none. 1 in last 15 years, ONE) Nut Up.
Elias Jan 18th 2008 12:24PM
I've been waved through without being checked at several airports, even while holding out my boarding pass and ID trying to make them check it. It usually happens when the TSA agent gets distracted and then forgets who they've check and who they haven't.
Most of the time when they do check, the agent will scribble something on my boarding pass (like initials), sometimes a little stamp, sometimes nothing at all. But no matter what they put on there nobody ever cares later on in the process.