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Title: TSA - The gang that couldn't shoot straight.
Post by: Ichiban on May 19, 2011, 11:19:25 AM
With their guns drawn, police surrounded a man who reportedly was trying to get through security at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport with a bomb in a carry-on bag.

It was a drill, but the trouble was no one had told the cops, who thought it was real.

http://www.startribune.com/local/minneapolis/122200374.html (http://www.startribune.com/local/minneapolis/122200374.html)

Maybe they should stick to fondling children.


Title: Re: TSA - The gang that couldn't shoot straight.
Post by: fightingquaker13 on May 19, 2011, 11:37:34 AM
Is it me, or are they going to have a hard time finding another "volunteer" to play the bomber? Not only could he have been shot full of holes, but a nearby passenger might have taken his ass down, and none too gently (possibly getting shot by the twitchy cops in the process). ::) Oi vey!
FQ13
Title: Re: TSA - The gang that couldn't shoot straight.
Post by: jaybet on May 19, 2011, 12:02:24 PM
In the mid 90's, at that same airport and  before all of this terrorist crap, I was briefly detained and made a spectacle of because I had a cigar cutter in my pocket...it was a plug cutter made from a 45LC.  "Live round, live round" the guy is yelling...people running everywhere. When it was finally sorted out I was told I shouldn't be carrying such a thing. Back then it was a big laugh.
Title: Re: TSA - The gang that couldn't shoot straight.
Post by: tt11758 on May 19, 2011, 03:41:56 PM
Like most everything the TSA does, this situation cannot be accurately described without the use of the word "cluster".
Title: Re: TSA - The gang that couldn't shoot straight.
Post by: ellis4538 on May 19, 2011, 05:40:58 PM
I'm guessing the second word begins with F.........

Richard
Title: Re: TSA - The gang that couldn't shoot straight.
Post by: ratcatcher55 on May 19, 2011, 06:04:16 PM
I failed the nudie scanner in KC on Tuesday.  Great fun >:(
Title: Re: TSA - The gang that couldn't shoot straight.
Post by: fightingquaker13 on May 19, 2011, 06:08:39 PM
I failed the nudie scanner in KC on Tuesday.  Great fun >:(
I really should know better than to ask this....but, for the good of the board (and never let it be said that I'm not a team player ;))....how does one "fail" a nudie scanner? And what happens next?
FQ13 who thinks he will need a stiff drink to read the answer. ;D
Title: Re: TSA - The gang that couldn't shoot straight.
Post by: Timothy on May 19, 2011, 06:33:11 PM
I have half my face that is metal plates, a screen in my aorta to stop blood clots and four pounds of cobalt-chromium in my ass from a hip implant.  I could literally show up naked and fail every scan the TSA has in their arsenal.

Machines are made by humans and we are subject to making mistakes.  Scanners ain't perfect.
Title: Re: TSA - The gang that couldn't shoot straight.
Post by: Hazcat on May 19, 2011, 06:47:25 PM
I have half my face that is metal plates, a screen in my aorta to stop blood clots and four pounds of cobalt-chromium in my ass from a hip implant.  I could literally show up naked and fail every scan the TSA has in their arsenal.

Machines are made by humans and we are subject to making mistakes.  Scanners ain't perfect.

WOW, yer a CYBORG!  ;D
Title: Re: TSA - The gang that couldn't shoot straight.
Post by: alfsauve on May 19, 2011, 09:17:42 PM
Every time I fly now, I'll be chuckling going through security, just picturing all the TSA agents as Barney Fife.

(http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photopost/data/748/14261barneyfife-bullet.jpg)
Title: Re: TSA - The gang that couldn't shoot straight.
Post by: Big Frank on May 19, 2011, 10:45:49 PM
WOW, yer a CYBORG!  ;D

The Timmynator.  8)
Title: Re: TSA - The gang that couldn't shoot straight.
Post by: mortdooley on May 20, 2011, 08:16:04 AM
 I expected you to say you downed a Viagra so you would look better in the x-ray!
Title: Re: TSA - The gang that couldn't shoot straight.
Post by: tombogan03884 on May 20, 2011, 09:42:48 AM
I expected you to say you downed a Viagra so you would look better in the x-ray!

Half a one, I don't want to impress any one, I just want to keep my new boots dry  ;D