Your TSA and Gov't Tax dollars at work
Jun. 20th, 2007 08:05 pmI present to you "The Sippy Cup Terrorist"!
Idiot' barb gets passenger detained
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A Wisconsin man who wrote "Kip Hawley is an Idiot" on a plastic bag containing toiletries said he was detained at an airport security checkpoint for about 25 minutes before authorities concluded the statement was not a threat.
When I read what was written on the bag, I chuckled. That is about all the swaggering TSAs should have done.
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I think Ryan Birds' point was missed. Many of these 'security measures' are as useless as teats on a bull. Make people dump their toiletries in a bin? Would YOU want to be standing next to a barrel of of maybe several tubes of what could be explosives? Sipping out of bottles of baby formula? Like terrorists would be adverse to ingesting a bit of toxic liquid. How about having National Guardsmen at airports, weapons unslung with no bullets. Yeah, that's a real safety measure.
But dare state your opinion... you get detained, bullied, and threatened with arrest. At least the cop was clear headed enough to just let it go.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A Wisconsin man who wrote "Kip Hawley is an Idiot" on a plastic bag containing toiletries said he was detained at an airport security checkpoint for about 25 minutes before authorities concluded the statement was not a threat.
When I read what was written on the bag, I chuckled. That is about all the swaggering TSAs should have done.
( rest of article behind the cut )
I think Ryan Birds' point was missed. Many of these 'security measures' are as useless as teats on a bull. Make people dump their toiletries in a bin? Would YOU want to be standing next to a barrel of of maybe several tubes of what could be explosives? Sipping out of bottles of baby formula? Like terrorists would be adverse to ingesting a bit of toxic liquid. How about having National Guardsmen at airports, weapons unslung with no bullets. Yeah, that's a real safety measure.
But dare state your opinion... you get detained, bullied, and threatened with arrest. At least the cop was clear headed enough to just let it go.
