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Advanced Search. Every day, almost two million of us abandon our humanity to be prodded, stripped, scanned, and herded through an endless maze of security lines and checkpoints. Nothing beats smoking a little Mary Jane after hell-on-wings, but finding it while traveling can be hairy.
Increasing numbers of Americans are eliminating this problem by flying with green, a violation of federal law. What are the consequences, and does the convenience outweigh the risk? In , Denver airport security stopped just 29 out of 54 million travelers for marijuana possession; all agreed to dump their stash, zero were ticketed, and all boarded their flights.
Several of my headphone enthusiast friends have been having problems with expensive equipment being confiscated.
Headphone amps are not bombs. All bombs are electronic devices, but not all electronic devices are bombs. In fact, if you'd actually LOOK at the piece of equipment you are attempting to take from them, you'd realize that three audio jacks and a 9 volt battery do not a bomb make. Brought to you by someone who is entirely outraged that not only is this equipment being confiscated without opportunity to explain what you're actually looking at , but that the dirty fuckstick TSA agencies aren't giving them back when the owner comes back to claim it at the end of their journey.
EricP: ouch. I'd think a headphone amp wouldn't be large enough to be a bomb anyway. Espcially if it's running on a 9volt. Why not check it in luggage? It's ludicrously large. We're talking the 1 to 3 thousand dollar range. Confiscating headphone amps? At what airports?
A It doesn't matter if we don't know what something is, electronic or not. If it isn't a prohibited item or hazmat, and it clears an explosives trace detection test, it goes. B We're not supposed to confiscate anything. If someone has a prohibited item that doesn't reqire a LEO run i. Check it, mail it somewhere, etc.
If we take something, it's because that person gave it up voulintarily. But, that should be irrelevant, because a headphone amp is not a prohibited item. C If we genuinely suspect that something is an IED, we're not going to just take it and let you go.
The terminal would be evacuated, EOD would be called, and the item would be destroyed. Seriously, I want to know what airport s this is, because something not right is happening.
I hate standing in line behind morons that think they're the exception to the rule. I almost fell into that group one time, knowing that my jacket had no metal in it. I was just about to open my piehole and say something like "Oh noes, not my jacket! No reason to look like one of them. Now, people look at me like I'm weird when I take my belt off and loosen my shoe laces while waiting in line.
It makes life much more bearable. I still get hassled every so often, and I'm starting to think that I should just travel in a bathrobe and slippers. Maybe you don't mean it the way they do, but the guys that work on the concourse that's equipped with SmithsHeimann x-rays say that exact thing with great derision.
I get to laugh back though, because that's the concourse with Southwest. Sure, they may get clearer images then I do Other than that bit of obscurity, excellent rant! They have to be wanded whether or not they alarmed the walk-through metal detector, and their bags have to be tested for explosives and physically searched regardles of whether the x-ray operator saw anything suspicious. The ticket agent is supposed to though rarely does override the computer and issue a normal boarding pass in that case.
Feel free to smack anyone that still hassles you, and tell them its from me. Seriously, if every passenger was like you guys, the line would move an order of magnitude quicker, and my job would suck much less. Great, I just asked so now I probably get in the special group. Except for the fact that active duty. The Security Directive that outlines the exempt groups actually states "active duty with travel orders", but most airlines won't deselect unless you're in uniform Wink wink, nudge nudge.
Show us your travel orders, we stamp your ticket, and you go. Now though, the airline must do the exempting. If you come through with a selectee boarding pass, then I don't care who you are, you have two options: 1 Go through the screening and complain to the airline later.
My prefered method, but exempt pax usually pick the other one because they don't want to wait in line again. Is it that hard for the travelling public to educate themselves even slightly on what to expect when going through security?
I guess so. It's funny how things change - when I was in the Air Force they mandated traveling in uniform if it was on orders. Even though I was stationed at a civilian clothing location they wanted us to travel in uniform and it was a pain to go through the hassle to get exemption from that requirement. On the other hand when I was the counter-terrorism NCO we sure as hell told people not to wear uniforms anytime it could be avoided. I take everything out of my pockets keys, change, wallet, inhaler, etc and keep just my ID and boarding pass I have never set off the dector Hey, I resemble that remark!
If it makes you feel any better, frequent business flyers hate these morons as much as you do. Great rant! I see more and more people doing likewise.
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