TSA checkpoint fails to detect stun gun - airport ramp worker finds it

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2-23-2009 @ 1:23PM

Emland said...

I wish those of you who love to hate the TSA could just work at checkpoint or baggage for one day. Perhaps if you got a taste of what it is like on the other side you wouldn't be so nasty.

As long as there are humans involved there will be mistakes. These screeners are checking millions of people and unfortunately, they are going to miss something now and again.

It does answer the question so many people ask about why people with strollers and wheelchairs are checked. It is easy to hide a device or weapon in a stroller or wheelchair that can't be x-rayed. You have to rely on the screeners eyes, ears and hands. Perhaps the screener forgot their training and saw a mother and child and thought "there's no threat here" and let them pass without a thorough check of the stroller.

Without a doubt, there will be intense retraining in Albany.

2-23-2009 @ 2:15PM

Brian said...

I highly doubt that people would rip on TSA so heavily if they weren't such jerks with more than a few being simply unbelievably rude.

Their general lack of concern for passengers' emotional well-being makes their lack of efficacy in protecting their physical well-being all the more glaring and outrageous.

You will never find me defending them by saying "you try what they do." Most jobs have some kind of degree of difficulty and most of us seem to be able to accomplish them without being so surly. And when your job is as important as theirs, I will have little tolerance for missteps

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