Just a few months ago, my wife and I went on vacation, and she had my mushroom hunting knife with like a 4 or 5-inch blade on it in her purse. The purse went through scanners and everything and no one said a fucking thing. Didn’t realize we had the knife until we were on the plane in the air, and she went to get gum out.
Yet when I was bringing some fudge home for family, I got hassled on it being too much…
We got harassed because we brought a bag of goldfish for the kiddo. Dude actually dug through the bag.
No serious entity can legitimately claim the arts don’t get funding when security theatre this entertaining exists.
TSA screeners get paid less than $50,000 a year and have to deal with entitled assholes who argue with them all day. I’d do a half-assed job too.
If you can’t keep track of your ammunition, you should not own a firearm.
If you can’t keep track of your guns, you should not own ammunition.
And yet I’ve had to throw out a whole bottle of St. Ives lotion. Which country is threatened by me having silky smooth skin?
You ever try to take down a greased up deaf guy?
There’s a higher chance Boeing will kill me than anything people bring on board.
They’re 0-12 for finding the weed cookies I take on vacation lol.
At least in this case, most TSAs are intentionally trying not to see those
And yet they made me open my tea tin and wiped some sort of test strip on it.
That’s to make sure you don’t have Twinnings brand tannerite.
How would they know there was cannabis in the cookies? You’re not transporting flower.
No, cannabis is just a coincidence - the TSA just eats all the cookies they find on any traveler. That’s why op hides them. Probably in a gun, so they don’t suspect cookies.
The TSA rarely cares about drugs. I’ve never tried but I have friends who bring them through all the time.
Tripping on absolute power the TSA bestows to one & with that being able to steal anything from travelers I would most definitely absolutely care a lot about any drugs.
Who says no to free drugs?!They’re looking for explosives and weapons (kind of, badly). They absolutely do not give a shit about drugs unless you’re carrying cocaine that has been shaped into a weapon.
Pro-tip: Keep your range bag and your travel bag SEPARATE. Problem solved!
It is a mix of “American tourists who are to stupid to consult government service pages about their destination” and “TSA is all about perceived security, but not real security”.
American border is like prison border with the world being the prison. They are more concerned about people getting out of the prison than people getting in.
I know this one… it’s because the TSA sucks and isn’t anything more than security theater.
It’s also a
slush fundpork-barrel for screening device manufacturers! (alwayshasbeen.meme)you mean the devices that were stupid and no one wanted to buy because they were mostly useless, until suddenly 9/11 and the
investors in the companyRepublicans demanded they be installed in every airport and bus station?
What’s surreal is being in a security line that is so backed up that the TSA on duty decide to tell people to keep their shoes on, and they open up the old fashioned metal detector to supplement the body scanner just to get people through faster.
Straight up confirmation that none of what they do matters.
TSA has an 80% failure rate during inspections.
Everyone knows the TSA is useless. I know people who have accidentally carried fixed blade knives through security without getting stopped.
I brought a 3-inch credit card blade (acquired at a trade show, with some tech company logo on it) through the airport four consecutive times without even realizing it.
I found it while packing for another trip, and I decided to gut my overly-thick wallet and realized that I’d been carrying it around everywhere, including through courtrooms and other government buildings that X-ray everything I bring every time I pass through as a contractor.
So yeah, a knife inside my wallet went through about 50 X-ray machines at federal facilities completely undetected, and I unknowingly carried it through all sorts of places where it is extremely illegal to have a knife. They always scolded me though if I tried to bring anything made of glass, like a coke bottle or something, because it could be used as a weapon.
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Yeah, wtf do they mean ‘they don’t know how?’.
The TSA is probably the only employer in America worse than Boeing when it comes to employees giving a shit about doing their jobs and actually doing them well.
Both organizations promote incompetent ass kissers over those who actually give a shit, and both orgs also have a massive culture of making up excuses for why something that was supposed to happen did not.
Oh right, both also have absurd amounts of paperwork that ‘ensures’ policy was followed, but seeing as everyone hates you if you actually try to keep up with it, most people just focus on a few main things and sign off on anything.
I mean “they don’t know how” doesn’t have to mean this is an exceptional case
They could just be ubiquitously incompetent and they don’t know how a lot of stuff happens
I mean it in the sense of:
Every job I’ve ever worked, if someone asks ‘how did this happen?’, that is a question that has an actual answer within usually 30 seconds, maximum 30 minutes.
I basically agree with you, I’m phrasing it as if I were some kind of competent person asking where a whole bunch of taxpayer money is going.
There are times when it takes longer, such as when Fukushima had a meltdown. The thirty-second answer only starts to explain how it happened, the thirty-minute one makes you start to realize that a good part of it is because people fucked up, and the full answer, which requires going over reports since the construction of the plant shows you just how comprehensive the fuck-ups were and why it was only a matter of time for something that catastrophic to happen.
But yes, usually these things can be figured out pretty quickly. It doesn’t take nuclear science to figure out why they can’t do their job.
But you can be damn sure they’ll catch that 5oz bottle of shampoo you’ve got.
BTW: your link is broken because you have a 9 at the beginning
fixed
Yet they never, ever fail to miss the banana I have in my carry-on for manual review. They very literally only look for the lowest-hanging fruit in scans. And that’s not a joke, they focus on the easiest to do and accept or reject.
Perhaps attach the banana more securely so it’s not hanging
They keep intensely checking my stuffed triceratops. Triclor is a good boy and they need to stop picking on him.
Aww! It’s not a pet per se, so I can’t invoke the pet tax, but might I request a picture of your stuffed friend?
Bonus cat!
Aww, he is a good boy!
Thank you so much for sharing!
#JusticeForTriclor
I’ve accidentally brought my pocket knife through the TSA multiple times. But coffee? That that’s clearly a bomb let’s scan it.
I brought a used weed pipe, a used grinder, and a baggie of psilocybin powder through TSA by mistake.
Good times.
I once lived and worked in a small store in rural Australia. When I left the job, I threw my box cutter in my backpack at the end of my shift without thinking.
They flew me back to the nearest city when I left, then from there I flew to Bali and back, then eventually I flew home. Every time I flew. I used that backpack as my carry on luggage. It was found when I landed after that final flight. I’d totally forgotten it was in there, and it had been scanned for all of those flights.
I flew across country and back twice with a pack of super sharp Olfa snap off replacement blades that if forgotten were tucked into the bottom of my laptop bag.
TSA is not in a fun position.
They are literally dealing with “The Most Armed Nation … In The World.” /clarkson And that is not often given to them out loud as the reality of their working parameters. Statistically that gives them a magnified margin of error by sheer volume of gun owners in the USA to my mind.
That said I have been terrorized by some TSA operators and patted down in the Denver airport without being asked or given a chance to have privacy by a TSA in the middle of line.
So won’t you at least give the TSA a chance to go fuck themselves ?
Isn’t TSA just a money-grab?
With no actual oversight, requirements, or sanctions, that’s just transfer of public money to some random wage-slaves and private subcontractors (like for the all-so-special equipment they must have, as well as tons of gloves and lube they consume daily).
Im sure AI could do racial profiling just as racially biased as them, and also fail at detecting any real threats. And Im sure I’ve seen some ‘cavity search’-like robots online that could be deployed.
I put a 5 inch blade in a bag I used for work that I totally forgot about, for 2 full years and flew all over the US without anyone calling me on it. I’m glad that TSA provides employment for so many people but they are in fact a joke
I would probably be fine with TSA as a jobs program, except I really don’t like being yelled at by power tripping agents just for taking my laptop out, or for leaving it in my bag. Because no airport is the same and they all seem to make things up when it comes to policy. To be fair most agents are pretty chill, but some out there definitely enjoy the power trip.
