Following the Christmas Day Johnson-lighting horror, the TSA is pulling out all the stops to ensure our safety in the skies:
I applaud the efforts and vigilance of our public servants.
-k-
UPDATE: From what I’ve seen since, I think they aspire to be our pubic servants.
Via Makezine, this report of a MAKEr who is working on a metal plate that you insert into your carry on luggage. The plate is cut out in a judicious fashion, with a witty saying or an image of some type. The theory is that the x-ray machine will make this cut out message visible [...]
We left LA last Wednesday morning; I think I mentioned previously that the TSA managed to push my buttons on our departure from El Lay.
This time, lines were short, there was signage advising us that our shoes, even plastic Crocs, must make the journey through the X-ray machine. We were greeted [...]
I’m proud that, for 3 years or more, I’ve been able to avoid the cluster-eff that air travel in America has become. I don’t fear crashing planes, terrorists on planes, or anything remotely similar. I don’t fear, but resent with every fiber in my body, the feeble ministrations of the TSA [...]
The ever-vigilant ones at the Transportation Security Administration have prepared a video which instructs holiday travelers on how to pack their carry-ons to expedite the screening process. The suggestions will probably not even be known by the majority of the traveling public, and doubtless administered inconsistently, according to the whim of TSA officers on duty [...]
And the story of sad sack Andrew Speaker continues to unfold. The poor mope has known about his tuberculosis since the first of the year, but he’s engaged to be married, and heads off to Greece 1 on his honeymoon or whatever.
On the way, we’ve seen DHS/TSA/Customs doing what they do best: pissing away [...]
Fly. I’m not scared of crashes, terrorists, or anything like that.
I’m not even scared of the TSA strip searches, arbitrary whims, and telling me how much hair gel I can bring onto a plane. I just refuse to participate in the whole cluster eff.
Plus, I’ve grown fond of SWMBO and I going on [...]
In what can only be described as an embarrassment to the passenger, and as a source of potential new threats to the TSA, an American Airlines jet was forced to land in Nashville, because of an episode of “passenger flatulence”.
According to the article:
An American Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing Monday morning [...]
Via Homeland Stupidity, many reasons to avoid TSA ineptitude at airports around the country.
Pies are common fodder during Thanksgiving; however, travellers who had the misfortune to go through Cleveland were met with:
Thousands of Americans this holiday season are going to go without Grandmother’s homemade pie, because the Transportation Security Administration has apparently banned pies from [...]
SWMBO and I find ourselves in Nashville TN tonight, 2/3 or so of our way to Hot Springs AR for Thanksgiving. We drove; I’m so sick of TSA’s ineffectual security grandstanding that I’ll go to great lengths not to fly again.
Plus, when one improves the life-to-date mileage of a Buick Lucerne from [...]
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