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- aimhelix, on 12/08/2008, -2/+595I was on the way to CES one year to do photography for the event so my gear naturally sent the TSA into bat-*****-panic-mode because of the way my camera lenses, tripods and battery packs looked in my bags so they put me inside that glass box chemical detector thingie. The Staff at JFK went on as if they hated their lives and left me in the ***** thing for 20+ minutes.... a few seconds before they got me out to search me, I farted. Slow, silent, warm and deadly.
The TSA guard that was supposed to search me almost puked and just gave me an arm signal and told me to 'go' while choking. Victory was mine that day at the expense of only 20 minutes. - loki2029, on 12/08/2008, -2/+478My name is Robert Johnson, one of the most common names in the United States, and I'm on the no-fly list. It's absolutely ridiculous.
- Fhwqhgads, on 12/08/2008, -16/+401American air travel paranoia has reached new levels of absurdity.
America the free! Guilty until proven innocent. Even if you're five. - nascentia, on 12/08/2008, -5/+378This list is ONLY 7 items long? I feel like it could be about 600 times that.
- nikki2300dk, on 12/08/2008, -2/+250God, it's like they've completely eliminated common sense. That's far more dangerous than nipple piercings and pudding cups.
- Pssdoff, on 12/08/2008, -4/+206I highly recommend never flying into the United States for any reason. You are better off flying into Canada and just driving into the US. Last time I flew into America from abroad, I missed my connecting flight due to TSA. I had two hours and 30 minutes to get to my next flight, but that wasn't enough time for TSA to access that I was not a terrorist. I was taken into a back room where I was searched and patted down, then they made me sit on a bench for easily 45 minutes while they searched and investigated every item in my suitcases and carry-on bags TWICE. They removed every single item and left them in a big pile on the table. They then took a stack of paper documents in folder out of my suitcase and took them back into some sort of office for well over an hour. During this time I was told to "SIT DOWN".
About 10 minutes after my plane took off, a TSA goon finally came up to me to return a plastic ziplock bag containing the documents they had seized from me. It contained several maps of Europe, sales catalogs, receipts and documents from a car rental agency, assorted fliers handouts and advertisements, business cards, and two small posters. I was then free to go, after I repacked all the items from my luggage that they had thrown into a pile of course.
It could have been worse, a woman next to me also missed her flight due to unreasonable TSA screenings, but she had a pair of boots seized by TSA. I'm sure they are on e-bay by now... - rabidbob, on 12/08/2008, -2/+192It's because your last name is a dangerous weapon.
- soupdawg30, on 12/08/2008, -1/+167That my friend is awesome.
- inactive, on 12/08/2008, -1/+150my name is Ahmad Rashed. Haven't been stopped for anything even on my flights to and from Libya.
- fieldhockey44, on 12/08/2008, -1/+136Oh the irony of reading this in an airport food court... with three TSA agents sitting at the table next to me.
- jessehadden, on 12/08/2008, -4/+139I truly hate flying. I hate that I have to do it so often. I feel like I am passing through a fascist twilight zone, from the moment I enter the departing airport to the moment I leave the arriving one.
- thekingjames, on 12/08/2008, -5/+122To Make Things Worse...Flight security personal seem to be anti-inelegant: interpreting their guide lines with not one thought in mind, making no exception at all, exterminating human logic. i don't think I would react well at all, If i was trying to calm down my kid, and were told to stand back. I would go berserk. They should be ashamed of their selves.
- spritom, on 12/08/2008, -1/+109One of airport security's screwups was detaining Joe Foss (this was pre-TSA, but post 9/11)
Joe Foss!
* WWII Flying Ace
* Shot down 26 planes during the war
* Distinguished Flying Cross
* Awarded Congressional Medal of Honor by FDR
* Was on the cover of Life Magazine
* Became a general
* Was governor of South Dakota
* Was commissioner of the American Football League
* Was president of the National Rifle Association
* TV national broadcaster
* Co-authored 3 books
* Has an airport named after him
Things security wanted to confiscate:
* nail file (commemorative with Medal of Honor inscription)
* solid silver engraved bullet (another commemorative thing)
* His medal of honor (that he was going to show cadets in a speech at West Point)
The first two, sure they go in checked luggage, but they spent 45 minutes and wanted to confiscate his CMH? Plus they went through his checked luggage anyway and removed shaving blades from it...contrary to then and now policies. - JFitzpatrick, on 12/08/2008, -1/+107Oh man don't get me started.
When my wife and then infant (6 month old) daughter flew to see her family, they had to go through several layers of extra screening including my daughter being swabbed for explosives. Why? Because my wife's driver license was expired. What makes this extra absurd? Her secondary form of identification was a security clearance badge issued by a federal agency. That's right folks... the TSA was so sure that a woman with security clearance to walk right into the bowels of congress was actually packing her child's bowels with plastic explosives.
Oh but wait... there's more! About 4 years ago I spent -hours- stuck in the most absurd lines flying out of Detroit Metro. When I finally get into the secure area of the airport I notice... what? A wall is being repaired and is only loosely covered with plastic sheeting, and from that flapping piece of plastic I can see the security fence, which has been rolled back to allow the construction trucks to drive in. Don't tell me a guy couldn't walk that few hundred feet skirting the edge of the building and not go noticed on a busy day.
The real coupe de grace though? Almost ten years ago I lost my favorite hunting knife. I took it on a trip, I came back... and I couldn't find it. I wrote it off as lost until years and years later I found it wedged under the lining of my favorite carry on. Mr. Slicey and I had practically been around the world together without a single airport screener saying "Hey... is that a SOG carbon forged fixed blade knife in there or just a cheap chinese knockoff?" =/ - nkleffman, on 12/08/2008, -7/+112There is no such thing as a liquid bomb that you could realistically make in an airplane, all those 'liquid terror bombers' were let go. And yet we still have to surrender our shampoo.
This is all about conditioning. First the airports, next events like the superbowl / kentucky derby, then government buildings, and then the malls till we come full circle to the horrors of nazi germany and soviet Russia - Present your PAPERS! - Skooma714, on 12/08/2008, -4/+106It's security theatre. Their OWN TESTS miss I think it was 90% of bombs they put through (may not be that high but it was definitely more than half).
It is there for control and obedience, nothing else.
Well, I'm sure feeling up women and children and stealing things help too.
But other than that nothing else. - paraforce, on 12/08/2008, -2/+101TSA is the equivalent of mall security guards. They'll insist they have ridiculous amounts of authority, even over more prestigious positions (the pilot, the SS agent, etc).
- gadgetlust, on 12/08/2008, -2/+98His name is Robert Johnson.... His name is Robert Johnson....
- tonyteetime, on 12/08/2008, -1/+94TSA : Sorry Mrs. Johnson , You can board your plane, but your little rug rat kid is on the no fly list , therefore we can not allow him to fly.
Mom : Why is he on the no fly list ?
TSA - He runs a blog under the name Joe Johnson on the internet criticizing his government and homeland security.
Mom - It's not possible, he's only 3 years old and doesn't even know how to use a computer!
TSA - I'm sorry maam , he can not fly because he might pose a threat to other passengers. Rules are rules and his name is on the list. Have a nice day. next... in line ... please. - olschool82, on 12/08/2008, -1/+80I guess the terrorist 'won'.... They accomplished there goal of changing our culture (ie travel paranoia/patriot act), how bout just having the airlines be responsible for the safety of there flights. I'm sure they would figure it out. B/c they couldn't be too intrusive, then people wouldn't fly with them. And they couldn't be too nonchalant then people wouldn't feel safe....
- ilana, on 12/08/2008, -0/+73I was flying out of Laguardia shortly after having knee surgery. They took my crutches away from me *before* I was to enter the metal detector. I figured he would examine them, then help me through. Not so much...the genius took my crutches, and made his way beyond the end of the collection area and leaned them up against the table there.
I did not move a muscle while he did this, doing my best to balance on my good leg (and eventually on a helpful passenger). I finally said, "You know, those aren't just a fashion statement" in a very loud voice. Luckily, another TSA person had the good sense to bring them back to me and help me through the metal detector.
It was quite an embarrassing experience, both for me and for the TSA. - NJank, on 12/08/2008, -0/+71"I spent the last few years building up an immunity to iocane powder."
- comat0se, on 12/08/2008, -0/+70It's because you went down to the crossroads and made a pact with the devil. Clearly you are a terrorist.
- rokklobster, on 12/08/2008, -0/+67Anybody remember the breast milk incident? Airport security made a woman drink from three different bottles of her own breast milk to make sure it "posed no threat to other passengers"... http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002-08-08-bre ...
I thought for sure that one would have made the list as it's beyond ridiculous. - Czechxican, on 12/08/2008, -0/+66I'd like to add the time I missed my flight because the TSA guy was looking through my laptop bag and saw some DVDs and my PSP. He proceeded to take his time and ask me if the discs were the Lord of the Rings Video Game and other such *****. It takes him 10 minutes to look through my game and dvd collection and this was after I told him that my name had just been called to board my flight. I missed my flight by 1 minute. I saw the plane backing out of the gate and I was just like...***** you TSA.
Not to mention another time where they confiscated my toothpaste in a carry on bag search but completely missed my 40 ounce bottle of contact solution. Makes me glad to know that terrorists could never replace saline with gasoline right? - cmkennedy, on 12/08/2008, -0/+61Real American Hero, right here.
You win. - unfilterthought, on 12/08/2008, -1/+60TSA airport security is a joke. All it does is hassle people and promote paranoia and fear. We need to invest money in making the country SAFER by our foreign policies so we wouldn't have terrorists.
fix cause not the symptom - inactive, on 12/08/2008, -1/+58i dont see anything.
- textrant, on 12/08/2008, -0/+51It wasn't a Gundam, It was a Transformer. The difference is that Transformers are sentient and sometimes evil, whereas a Gundam needs to be controlled by a human.
- Smokeydabear, on 12/08/2008, -0/+51Train travel: a mode of transportation from a more civilized age. Also there's hot air balloons, that was cool too.
- shandromand, on 12/08/2008, -1/+52Eat lots of beans 4 hours prior to flying. Check.
- inactive, on 12/08/2008, -0/+50I totally believe the "got the pudding, missed the pocketknife" story. I've REPEATEDLY (and accidentally, it's not like I want my ***** sold by the TSA on eBay!) gotten onto airplanes with a pocketknife since 9/11. Once, after getting past the metal detector, it also got past a hand search of me, WHILE CLIPPED TO THE OUTSIDE OF MY POCKET. Government delivered security sucks, and everyone agrees. Then I bring up things like government's job on stuff like education & health care, and get blank stares or sputtering attempts at a coherent argument. Sigh.
- olschool82, on 12/08/2008, -1/+47well this is what Ben Franklin had to say about it......
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Ben Franklin
true then.... true now - andrewlotta, on 12/08/2008, -1/+45Anyone remember this?
http://digg.com/comedy/How_To_Handle_The_Jerk_Next ... - KibblesnBitts, on 12/08/2008, -0/+43Waking up late on a day I was flying home, I rushed and put on the first shirt I found....it was a Snakes on a Plane shirt. TSA Pulled me aside and told me i was wearing a suspicious shirt, but unlike all of the other horror stories posted on these comments, I only lost about 10 minutes of my time as they patted me down just once....*****
- frequentFlyer, on 12/08/2008, -0/+43*This is all about the conditionER.
- Protonz, on 12/08/2008, -1/+43Difference is the TSA actually does have unchecked power.
- captainanndor, on 12/08/2008, -0/+39That is the best thing I've read all day.
- banderwocky, on 12/08/2008, -3/+41I hate traveling to the US. Nothing like a taste of 'freedom' to really get you angry.
- inactive, on 12/08/2008, -0/+36Wanna stir things up? Pose to them a riddle. They will sit there and eventually starve to death trying to figure it out.
- Demener, on 12/08/2008, -0/+36Glad I'm not the only one who's mind went to conditioner instead of conditioning after he mentioned giving up shampoo.
- alexacastro, on 12/09/2008, -0/+36ok, now THAT is impressive
- noahhoward, on 12/08/2008, -6/+41Why would you call it American paranoia? Most Americans think it is just as ***** retarded as you do. Most Americans just don't get to make the rules.
- Mujokan, on 12/08/2008, -0/+35Naw, it's his mean blues guitar.
- Zaeyde, on 12/08/2008, -0/+34You're an *****.
- Wildthing, on 12/08/2008, -0/+33You should have said "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! I'VE HAD IT WITH THESE MOTHER F*CKEN SEARCHES IN THIS MOTHER F*CKEN AIRPORT!"
I would have gladly bailed you out of jail had I been witness to that. - Eqxy, on 12/08/2008, -0/+33Wow. As an American citizen I would just like to say that I'm sorry you had to endure that. I know it doesn't really help one bit to just apologize, but that's really lame.
- AmyVernon, on 12/08/2008, -1/+33Or the pilot with a butter knife.
- tgc1, on 12/08/2008, -3/+34So basically,
TSA = Durrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....
I think they should replace all TSA agents with the Mentally Challenged. I think they'd do a better job than these current lot of knuckleheads. - inactive, on 12/08/2008, -1/+32I was flying out of the dinky airport in Charlottesville, VA. When I went to check in, they told me my flight was delayed 2.5 hours because the plane was broken. Since the extent of available concessions was a vending machine, I hopped a cab and went to a nearby sports bar. Well, by the time I returned, TSA had left for the day. TSA was gone even though my flight wasn't. No TSA, no security screening, no getting on airplane. I was almost arrested after the little ***** from Delta told me the situation was my fault for leaving the airport. Ah...good times....
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