Tips, Tricks, and Travel with Lucky
I mean, I guess this makes sense. There’s no way we can do anything bad if we have nothing to hide. And we might not have to show up at the airport two hours before departure anymore either….
(Tip of the hat to Karyn)
Posted on February 24th, 2010 by lucky
Filed under: Humor, Security/TSA | 4 Comments »
Via CNN:
Washington (CNN) — To the list of instructions you hear at airport checkpoints, add this: “Put your palms forward, please.”
The Transportation Security Administration soon will begin randomly swabbing passengers’ hands at checkpoints and airport gates to test them for traces of explosives.
Simply incredible. The list of things these morons will do to stay busy [...]
Posted on February 18th, 2010 by lucky
Filed under: Security/TSA | 9 Comments »
I posted this to my Twitter account earlier, but I just have to mention it here as well. There were ten (T-E-N/10/1-0/ONE-ZERO) TSA agents at the gate for my flight to Tampa earlier today. Doesn’t that make you feel safe?
Posted on February 8th, 2010 by lucky
Filed under: Security/TSA | 13 Comments »
I often say I won’t provide any commentary and then end up ranting just a bit. In this case I don’t need to say anything. This story speaks for itself:
A TSA worker pulled a small plastic baggie full of white powder out of Rebecca Solomon’s carry-on bag. After 20 seconds of the young woman’s panic, [...]
Posted on January 22nd, 2010 by lucky
Filed under: Security/TSA | 7 Comments »
Never thought I’d say that. I arrived at TPA a few minutes ago and headed straight for security. After I walked through the metal detector without setting it off I was “randomly” selected to go into one of the full body scanners. As a matter of principle I object to this (I don’t trust TSA [...]
Posted on January 16th, 2010 by lucky
Filed under: Security/TSA | 12 Comments »
This has to be the story of the decade (fine, we’re less than two weeks into it, but whatever). A Hawaiian Airlines flight was diverted back to Portland and escorted by two F15 military jets. Why? A passenger handed the flight attendant a comment card that he assumed was going to management. Unfortunately it was perceived as threatening.
So, [...]
Posted on January 13th, 2010 by lucky
Filed under: Other Airlines, Security/TSA | 6 Comments »
This is just too rich. Via NBC Los Angeles:
A TSA agent was arrested on January 3rd in Terminal One at LAX, a source told NBCLA. He had just gotten off duty and was behaving erratically, saying, “I am god, I’m in charge.”
If that’s worthy of getting arrested, I’m pretty sure just about half of the [...]
Posted on January 8th, 2010 by lucky
Filed under: Security/TSA | 3 Comments »
I posted a couple of days ago about Chris Elliott receiving a subpoena for posting a security directive. While he probably shouldn’t have posted it word-for-word, he was helping out the traveling public and there was nothing in there that I’d consider to be confidential (other than the text identifying it as such).
Well, it seems [...]
Posted on December 31st, 2009 by lucky
Filed under: Media, Security/TSA | 2 Comments »
Poor, poor Chris Elliott. And while I almost always disagree with him, this time it’s different. I support him. As we all know, the TSA didn’t exactly do a great job making the new security initiatives clear. So in trying to help the public out (for once), Chris Elliott posted the security directive on his website, [...]
Posted on December 29th, 2009 by lucky
Filed under: Media, Security/TSA | 21 Comments »
You’ve gotta love the new “security” regulations the past few days, given that no one really has a clue what’s going on. I’ll be the first to blame it on the TSA’s incompetence, but this Chicago Tribune article quotes a DePaul University professor that has a different take:
Transportation expert Joseph Schwieterman says that might be [...]
Posted on December 28th, 2009 by lucky
Filed under: Media, Security/TSA | 9 Comments »
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