A couple screwballs screw it up for everyone!
03-22-2007, 11:32 AM
#21
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So are they going to personally escort us out of the secure area after our last flight of the day, just to make sure we go through security again? WTF? The stupidity of the TSA never ceases to amaze me.
... I guess that's what you get when you give a high school drop out a badge. At least these cretins aren't armed.
... I guess that's what you get when you give a high school drop out a badge. At least these cretins aren't armed.
03-22-2007, 07:31 PM
#24
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Security is a joke. They should work on improving their current security measures and quit screwing around with this crap. This article supports my theory.
From ABC news online. AU
Grenade gets past airport security screening
It has been revealed an airport security failure allowed a man to fly from Los Angeles to Sydney with a grenade in his checked luggage.
After questioning from the Opposition, the Justice Minister has confirmed the incident took place last April and came to light when the passenger declared the grenade upon arrival in Sydney.
The grenade was found to be inert and had been purchased by the passenger as a souvenir.
American authorities have since been notified of the screening failure, but Labor MP John Murphy wants an explanation.
"Somehow or other a grenade has gone through undetected when every day around the world security agencies are picking up passengers for having scissors and nail clippers in their luggage," he said.
"I'm absolutely amazed and I'd like to know what the American authorities are doing about that."
From ABC news online. AU
Grenade gets past airport security screening
It has been revealed an airport security failure allowed a man to fly from Los Angeles to Sydney with a grenade in his checked luggage.
After questioning from the Opposition, the Justice Minister has confirmed the incident took place last April and came to light when the passenger declared the grenade upon arrival in Sydney.
The grenade was found to be inert and had been purchased by the passenger as a souvenir.
American authorities have since been notified of the screening failure, but Labor MP John Murphy wants an explanation.
"Somehow or other a grenade has gone through undetected when every day around the world security agencies are picking up passengers for having scissors and nail clippers in their luggage," he said.
"I'm absolutely amazed and I'd like to know what the American authorities are doing about that."
03-22-2007, 08:27 PM
#25
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Originally Posted by SharkyBN584
This in response to an MCO ramper taking a bunch of handguns and 8 pounds of pot, sneaking it on to an airplane and bouncing off to Puerto Rico. He got caught...we get punished.
note to HIMS: this is humor
03-23-2007, 03:44 AM
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Originally Posted by par8head
TSA Issues New Screening Requirements Effective March 2221-Mar-2007According to a security Bulletin issued today by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), all airline employees or authorized representatives who plan to travel as a passenger on-board any aircraft must undergo screening.
Our airline will comply with this directive and encourages all employees to read the additional communications distributed in company email and through the operational department.
New TSA Security Requirements- Details for Crewmembers21-Mar-2007The TSA now classifies crewmembers who are assigned a deadhead by the company as passengers. This new classification requires deadheading crewmembers and their accessible property to be screened at a security check point and are subject to being selected for secondary screening at the gate.
This new classification also considers jumpseaters who are commuting or traveling in non revenue status as passengers. This new classification will require jumpseaters and their accessible items to be screened before jumpseating.
Have fun catching those flights with the instant increase in "pax travel" going through security!!!!
Our airline will comply with this directive and encourages all employees to read the additional communications distributed in company email and through the operational department.
New TSA Security Requirements- Details for Crewmembers21-Mar-2007The TSA now classifies crewmembers who are assigned a deadhead by the company as passengers. This new classification requires deadheading crewmembers and their accessible property to be screened at a security check point and are subject to being selected for secondary screening at the gate.
This new classification also considers jumpseaters who are commuting or traveling in non revenue status as passengers. This new classification will require jumpseaters and their accessible items to be screened before jumpseating.
Have fun catching those flights with the instant increase in "pax travel" going through security!!!!
03-23-2007, 03:50 AM
#28
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Originally Posted by fatmike69
It used to be that if you went through a security checkpoint at the beginning of your shift and flew your whole day, at say, SFO, that at the end of your shift you would be allowed to proceed directly to the gate of your flight to jumpseat or deadhead home. Now the rules require that at the end of your shift, you must exit security, only to re-enter security right away to be re-screened. This is just absurd. Hypothetically, if you had something that you didn't want TSA to find, you would just leave it somewhere in the secure are before you get re-screened (on the airplane, in the crew lounge, etc.). I really see no purpose for this new rule whatsoever, other than to inconvenience flight crews.
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