Product review - Tom Bihn Checkpoint Flyer TSA friendly laptop bag

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11-20-2008 @ 11:01PM

Kevin said...

@Ty

Wow you're defensive.

People are irritated at TSA agents because they're inconsistent from airport to airport and even from checkpoint to checkpoint. What is ok at JFK is not ok at SFO or LAX, and the reverse.

Also, the number of courteous TSA agents is outweighed by the number who have been rejected from either the military or the police academy is about 10,000:1.

And yes, sometimes I'll tell a particularly stupid agent that that's my iPod, because the only other things in the bag are clothes. I've had bags searched because of a money clip. And a particularly stupid TSA agent had to have a five minute confab with his equally stupid supervisor to conclude that it was -- in fact -- designed to hold money and couldn't reasonably be construed as a knife.

Here's the bottom line: if TSA agents were smart, polite, and efficient, people would be nicer.

Get over it.

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