are you freaking kidding us with this, TSA?

stupid TSA.

http://consumerist.com/consumer/terror-granny/grandmother-busted-by-the-tsa-for-trying-to-sneak-a-bread-knife-past-security-271446.php

I don't even care about the details surrounding her race, gender, or procreational status (grandmother, not a grandmother, whatevz)... if a TSA agent told me "you are now considered a terrorist," I think I would laugh in his face.  And then yeah, I'd call the press, too. 

this week's installment of Friday 5's coming soon.

Comments

[Ishla]

This story happened 2 years ago.

[sharon]

yup! and they aren't any brighter two years later, either.

Two weeks ago at the ASTD conference (www.astd.org), I was sitting at a table with a trainer from the NTSB and a trainer from Homeland Security. The NTSB trainer made the requisite "3 oz. limit" crack to the Homeland Security trainer, and I remember laughing when the Homeland Security trainer replied with something along the lines of, "Yeah, that liquid restriction thing of ours: what a joke." At least we're all in on the joke together, I guess...

[mom]

It is still a joke. I was in Wisconsin last month and they must have had the metal detector turned up to above maximum. The only metal I had was my bra hooks and the damn bells went off. So thay did all the scanning with the wand and asked me if I had a steel rod in my back! They did not wish to believe it was the hooks even though no other metal was on my body. So after they checked every thing I had in my possession and could not figure out what the problem was they said move on. I guess they were unable to notice that just about everyone was setting off the alarm. While that seemed a bit inefficient to me to have the detector set so high you catch little, tiny bra hooks and who knows what else on other people, we should be grateful no terrorists were getting through from Madison WI!