Security Theater? An Airport Security Story to End All Security Stories - UPDATE
This kind of crap has GOT TO STOP.
No reasonable person can condone this type of behavior by security personnel.
Via NowPublic.com.
If you travel enough, you've seen it all -- and possibly some of the awful things that can happen while traveling will have actually happened to you. But nothing I've read about or experienced comes close to what Monica Emmerson experienced while at Reagan National Airport on June 11th while traveling with her 19-month-old toddler. This isn't one of those Catch-22 bureaucratic snafus; this isn't about rules being applied to the letter.More here.
This story is mostly about what can happen simply because the authorities in charge decide that they're going to exercise their authority because they can, regardless of whether it's legal or right or makes any sense at all.
Freekin' heads should roll and the people responsible for this behavior should be fired.
(Props, Boing Boing.)
UPDATE: 16:31 PDT 16 June 2007: There is some indication that this entire incident may have been blown out of proportion, or perhaps just downright untrue. More here and here.
posted by Fergie @ 6/14/2007 01:14:00 PM
1 Comments:
I have as low an opinion of the TSA and their methods as the next guy, but idiots like this woman are just lending the TSA credibility with stupid claims like hers.
What a moron - I'm glad she missed her flight.
Signed,
-The only guy who ever posts here
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