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And here's an addendum. The TSA damages a lot of luggage - as I found out when they damaged mine. It was perfectly clear that it was damaged by TSA and not by baggage handlers. But when I talked to the repair shop they said that although airlines traditionally pick up the tab for any damage, TSA refuses across the board to pay for anything.
And here's an addendum. The TSA damages a lot of luggage - as I found out when they damaged mine. It was perfectly clear that it was damaged by TSA and not by baggage handlers. But when I talked to the repair shop they said that although airlines traditionally pick up the tab for any damage, TSA refuses across the board to pay for anything.
You have to break a few pieces of luggage to make an anti-terrorism omelet
And here's an addendum. The TSA damages a lot of luggage - as I found out when they damaged mine. It was perfectly clear that it was damaged by TSA and not by baggage handlers. But when I talked to the repair shop they said that although airlines traditionally pick up the tab for any damage, TSA refuses across the board to pay for anything.
I would trust the airline company over the TSA in this case.
Odd that police can’t just randomly stop and frisk people the way the TSA does and the police have had more and better law enforcement training. Combine TSA with ever shrinking plane seats and I’m never flying again. Haven’t flown since 2011. Even my 4 feet 10 inch tall wife had trouble with the seats and she was maybe 120 lbs at the time. I’ve received better customer service at Walmart and McDonalds than at the airport and on the plane.
If we had the freedom of association, you wouldn't really even need a TSA.
You could just have airlines with no Muslims allowed, and you don't need anything approaching a TSA for that - we never had TSA before there were lots of Muslims here. You could actually even crowdsource some aspects of airline security, so it would be really cheap for a free airline to ensure the aircraft is secure. You wouldn't need to be taking your shoes off and groping people, that's for sure.
About a dozen years back, I was "selected for random enhanced screening" and led to a room where I had to strip down to my shorts and socks while a TSA guy went through all of my clothes. I didn't care for it one bit. But it's never happened since and I fly quite a bit - several times each year, round trips.
Just last month, going through security at La Guardia, the overweight dummy checking IDs against boarding passes didn't like my Texas drivers license for no apparent reason. Maybe because it says "veteran" in red letters. So I broke out my concealed handgun license. It says "Veteran" also. I think she just wanted to see more than one ID, so I showed her. After passing through the scanner, I was told to see "the agent in the white shirt" because I'd been "randomly selected for enhanced screening" once again. The guy just wiped down my hands looking for traces of gunpowder residue.
I would trust the airline company over the TSA in this case.
I trust an airline company or security at a job interview over the TSA.
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