TSA - The gang that couldn't shoot straight.

[Ichiban]

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

Maybe they should stick to fondling children.

[fightingquaker13]

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

[jaybet]

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.

[tt11758]

Like most everything the TSA does, this situation cannot be accurately described without the use of the word "cluster".

[ellis4538]

I'm guessing the second word begins with F.........

Richard

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[ratcatcher55]

I failed the nudie scanner in KC on Tuesday.  Great fun

[fightingquaker13]

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.

[Timothy]

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.

[Hazcat]

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! 

[alfsauve]

Every time I fly now, I'll be chuckling going through security, just picturing all the TSA agents as Barney Fife.