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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+117> You're right, that guy is most definately a communi.... er, uh... terrorist!
Let's just shorten it up to "ist"
..are you now, have you ever been or are you planning to become an ist? - omgitscolin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+95I'd want the names and badge numbers of everyone involved, if I were him.
- Diggtatorship, on 10/12/2007, -7/+85You're right, that guy is most definately a communi.... er, uh... terrorist!
- rapiddemon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+69This was in LA, he should just be happy the cops didn't give him a beating.
- barryq, on 10/12/2007, -5/+751) make rubber band ball
2) book flight
3) get arrested
4) profit. - Innagadadavida, on 10/12/2007, -3/+60Smuggling drugs in a rubber-band ball!?
Great idea! - Morsetlis, on 10/12/2007, -3/+59"Acting like an ass" should not be grounds for arrest, you ass.
- dgh1973, on 10/12/2007, -1/+50This is one of the many reasons why the terrorists have won.
- buzzert, on 10/12/2007, -2/+46This story has a really sad ending. The ball ended up as a sack of cut up rubber bands... :(
- OUChevelleSS, on 10/12/2007, -5/+47Where's V when you need him?
- IcerC, on 10/12/2007, -3/+44Wow this is a new low.
Why do they hold you for 12hrs though? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+45>> If he didn't act like an ass about it..
>
>I have a SIDA badge so if it can happen to me...it could happen to ANY of you.
Yes... so freedom has become the business of "not pissing off those with a remarkable amount of power". Of course it's always been this way, but those with a "remarkable amount of power" used to inhabit the top 10% of the population. Now they live at the bottom rungs of society like the rest of use poor sods.
I personally can't wait for the next terrorist to blow a plane out of the sky just because (s)he was polite and affable to the screening authorities. - jfossboss, on 10/12/2007, -1/+40Wow, he's lucky he didn't get declared an enemy combatant and hauled off to some secret prison for a thorough interrogation .
- eerbin13, on 10/12/2007, -3/+41lots of SANE people make rubber band balls. its a convenient and fun way to store rubber bands, rather than a drawer or bag, PLUS the ball bounces really nicely.
- JFetch, on 10/12/2007, -3/+39This is why I refuse to fly anymore. There are just too many stories like this.
- Dimah, on 10/12/2007, -3/+393) Get Arrested
4) Sue
5) Profit - voteforblank, on 10/12/2007, -10/+46What Police State??? The USA...naaah!
Bahh ha haa ha!
Heil *****! - steelmaverick, on 10/12/2007, -2/+37I make them in my spare time. Its a good hobby.
- shm1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26The smaller the airport, the more likely that you'll see something like this. The only way that those small timers will get to feel important.
- Klarth, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24You're doing it wrong!
1) Make rubber band ball
2) Get arrested
3) ????
4) Profit! - ICSU, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22That's what people call you.
He doesn't allow the government power to own him completely, and I agree with him. - danieltyack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18I was traveling with a guitar, through LAX, when I got pulled aside and interrogated for having an "Explosive Substance". Turns out they swiped the strings with their tester and it picked up glycerin (from hand lotion). It's pretty disheartening when your are watching the test screen and it flashes a big red box that says "EXPLOSIVE". At least I didn't get thrown in jail :)
- surgen, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21No, I'm laughing when TSA testers get guns and knives through security all the time.
- vulcanius, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18He was busy in Washington delivering petitions for redressing of grievances.
- Flanker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18Then use the reply button on his post. Or better yet, just digg him up and move on.
- johnlancia, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18The United States of America is doomed. When its government can strip away its citizens rights and treat them like people trying to travel in Nazi Germany or Communist Russia, AND have a large portion of that citizenry support those actions, then I'm afraid that the good old U.S. or A is on a slippery slope from which it will have a hard time climbing back up from.
- shinynew, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Its your _right_ to act like an ass about anything you want as long as its within the law. Its time to learn that airport security is over the top and not catching any real threats, when they "ask" you to take you shoes off, it should be them asking not commanding like all of them do now. When a police officer asks to seach you, you have the right to deny him or her that seach. Learn your rights and USE them.
- johnlancia, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16Why be polite when your rights are being violated by a power tripper? All of those TSA guys know that the whole precursor/trigger thing is a load of *****. Just like shoe bombs and all that other nonsense they go on about. And this isn't me saying this stuff, this is the general feeling of the TSA staff I come into contact with. My close friend through whom I've met his co-workers says that in general, they like to 'smack down' anyone who gets too, 'uppity'. I swear to God, this is the way they talk. And if you push it by doing something crazy like try to assert you rights, they have no problem sending you to jail or a strip search. They they all get together at the bar after work and laugh about it.
The whole airport security business has become what the welfare state of the sixties and seventies became, its in the interest of the TSA workers to keep the fear levels up and to keep on making arrests in order to justify the budgets they have and the budget increases they want to get next year. So the next time you have to pony up extra I.D., or explain why you have too many rubberbands, or why you don't have any checked in luggage. Sure, be polite and do everything that they tell you to do without any complaint. You'll get through security with no problem. And if its not too brutal a comparison, and I in no way say this lightly, just think of all those Jewish people in Nazi occupied Europe who formed commitees, and voluntarily went to ghetto's, wore identifying stars on their clothing and all the other things they did to aid their way to the camps that they wound up in. A terrible comparison I know, but the Bush Administration has already taken away Habeus Corpus rights for anyone they identify as an enemy combatant, and no one from the Democrats are talking about reinstating them anytime soon. Which of your rights is next? What if you are suddenly put on a terrorist watchlist because of a rubberband ball and an attitude? What about if the terrorist watchlist suddenly becomes used as an enemy combatants watch list the next time terrorists strike? Sounds like an over-reaction right? Have any of you ever seen the Bush Administration over-react before? Like endangering the Habeus Corpus rights of all American citizens just to keep themselves from being charged with violating the rights of the prisoners that they are holding with no charge, evidence or trial dates? - Woofcat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Here you go.
"SIDA is an acronym used in airport security meaning Security Identification Display Area. This is generally the ramp areas of a commercial airport where security ID must be displayed at all times."
The cop was being an ***** IMO. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+22I'm sorry this happened to you but the bottom line is you have acted like a pussy about it by not taking legal action or at least getting legal counsel about the matter.
If you let people push you around and do nothing about it then it will continue to happen, only it won't be to just you but to the rest of us as well.
We need to stand up for our rights. The TSA can stop you from taking a flight but they can't keep you in jail for absolutly no reason. - epiccollision, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16Canada ...we like it on top
- QuidnuncQuixot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Rubber band ball? Amateur! I made a snowman out of rubber bands and seven push-pins.
http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/9701/snowmanzo6.jpg - Jaq524, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11RTFA he was arrested for "suspicion of using a controlled substance", which the cop was completely wrong about...
- Koray, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Well, keep in mind it was posted in a forum full of people either in the business (of flying), or closely tied to it. They all know what SIDA is, so he didn't feel an explanation was needed.
- johnlancia, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11@ImTheDarkcyde
Then how come you aren't serving time? - shinynew, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10last time i saw a dog in the x-ray machine...
i have no clue what happened to the person but im guessing they arent getting a lawyer for atleast a year - arg553, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Now that he's a suspected terrorist all of his phone calls and internet traffic is being monitored by the NSA.
- johnlancia, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13Guess what fella, being an 'asshat' isn't against the law. It might not be everyone's cup of tea, but since when does not being a cops cup of tea earn you a ticket to the slammer.
I would never willingly give up my right as a citizen to be an *****. I join George Washington, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and all those other FOUNDING FATHER ***** who stuck it to the man and made the USA out of nothing more than not being willing to put up with some ***** coming down on them for every little thing.
Jesus Christ man, stop buying into the whole security state, always be afraid, police are my friends scam. Your rights are being stripped and you are clapping about it and cheerirg the REAL asshats on while they do it. - WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12OMG this is too funny!
Poor guy!
The craziness has become so extreme!
Rubber bands! Aren't they protected under the Geneva Convention for Transporting Office Supplies? (GCTOS) - IMustBeEmo, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11Yet another reason I can't wait until I'm 18. Then I get what America advertises - freedom. But not how America advertises it - I won't get freedom here. I will get freedom to MOVE OUT OF THE COUNTRY! And I won't be flying out. I will drive to Canada, and then fly from there.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8amen on that.
- shadus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Last I flew I got bag checked and screened at EVERY connection we flew. 4 of them both there and back while everyone else on the planes walked by... I'm squeaky clean, federal security clearances and all. It was a real fun trip both ways. Least the vacation was good.
- JaytB, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7If it makes you feel any better: I had to google a rubber band ball.
- nurvus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8god bless america..
- rnelsonee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5How about this: the smaller the airport, the more influence people have in the whole process. I've been at one-strip airports where security is one cop and a metal wand. He could've made it as easy or as hard for me as he wanted. With large airports, they're all pretty much the same, and you know what to expect.
And if I were this guy, a) I wouldn't have been so difficult, but hey, I'm eager to please, and b) would've just used my badge to skip the whole process (I guess SIDA badges only work at your own home airport?) - but his badge is the one employees like baggage handlers use to bypass security so they can go do their job. Since they're not going to be on the flights, they don't get screened. - bergur1, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10He wasnt difficult from what the story sounds like. The cop was the one being a pain in the bang bang sexy time eenus (Borat)
- mmm_linux, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5there really is a problem with ariport security. my cousin was traviling with his wife and after they handed their ids to the "security" guy he accually asked them if the names on the id were their real names... i mean do you think that they were really going to be like no; wait, what name is on there, oh ya thats me.
- johnlancia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5When you work at an airport, acronyms become a big part of your life.
- andreo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8@anonymoustroll:
"Let's just shorten it up to "ist""
Someone needs to make that into a T-Shirt.
something along the lines of: "I am some sort of ____ist to ever different group out there."
Or something like that. O.K. It's late. And I'm tired. I probably shouldn't be commenting, let alone trying to make up catchy T-Shirts.
I'll let myself out... - Jaq524, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Sounds to me like this guy did try to be polite. He let them do what they wanted to this rubber band ball, told the truth the whole time, etc... he was arrested because the cop looked in his eyes and thought he was high, which he proved incorrect later with a blood test.
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