TSA and the five finger discount
10-13-2008, 10:27 AM
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TSA and the five finger discount
Here is an article about a TSA agent who stole an expensive camera and when he gets caught they find lots more stuff.
TSA agent helped himself to a $47,900 camera (and more!) - Gadling | travel blog | news, stories, deals, and tips. Go there.
TSA agent helped himself to a $47,900 camera (and more!) - Gadling | travel blog | news, stories, deals, and tips. Go there.
10-13-2008, 10:36 AM
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Wow - those TSA agents need to be subject to the same humiliating searches as we are both when arriving and leaving work! Maybe that would inject some common sense into the system and prevent idiots like these from stealing.
10-13-2008, 02:56 PM
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Originally Posted by BZNpilot248
Wow - those TSA agents need to be subject to the same humiliating searches as we are both when arriving and leaving work! Maybe that would inject some common sense into the system and prevent idiots like these from stealing.
10-13-2008, 08:04 PM
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Just last night I watched two TSA agents enter the secured aread through the exit (no screening, etc) carrying hand bags and food/beverages. I made a comment under my breath about their liquids as I passed them (I was leaving).
It's their egos and elitism that really gets me. If TSA agents were required to have the same sort of education and quality length of training as military officers or police officers, they would be far more capable and respectable. Unfortunately, that would greatly diminish the pool of candidates.
Though, to the TSA's side, in the early days they did have considerably higher standards for employment, however, they could not get nearly enough qualified applicants under the original standards, mostly due to the pay not being high enough for people with the backgrounds that the TSA desired.
It's their egos and elitism that really gets me. If TSA agents were required to have the same sort of education and quality length of training as military officers or police officers, they would be far more capable and respectable. Unfortunately, that would greatly diminish the pool of candidates.
Though, to the TSA's side, in the early days they did have considerably higher standards for employment, however, they could not get nearly enough qualified applicants under the original standards, mostly due to the pay not being high enough for people with the backgrounds that the TSA desired.
10-13-2008, 08:35 PM
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Originally Posted by AZFlyer
Just last night I watched two TSA agents enter the secured aread through the exit (no screening, etc) carrying hand bags and food/beverages. I made a comment under my breath about their liquids as I passed them (I was leaving).
A load of bollocks if you ask me.
10-16-2008, 08:58 AM
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I believe they only make about $10 an hr starting out....and they wonder why they keep getting idiots!!. not that long ago I got searched during spring break on my way down to Florida and they opened my bag and the moron started questioning me why I had aviation textbooks in my bag. I told him I was a flight student, so I pulled my license out of my wallet and showed him and he said, "Where did you get that?" I replied "from the FAA" he looked at me puzzled as I zipped up my bag and walked away; I think he was 90% brain dead.
