http://www.theagitator.com/2009/04/02/detained-by-tsa/
I had a similar incident when I accidently left a magazine for my Beretta in my carry-on as my wife and I set out on our honeymoon. These guys are scumbags and bullies through and through.
mike
Wow, that would drive me into a rage. Props to that guy for keeping his cool and sticking up for himself.
I would not have handled that as well as he did. Most TSA people are easy to deal with, especialling in the small airports I frequent. I fly quite a bit and have only had issue with one agent. I couldn’t resist being a smart ass but I wasn’t insulting enough to warrent any special attention.
Carrying a large amount of money has nothing to do with airport security.
How did you get it and what do you plan to do it are stupid questions. He could have told them anything. Some people just are not that bright. Scary to think that we rely on these people to ensure our saftey.
In general, I will say that they don’t seem to be the most qualified bunch.
My neighbor was a retired cop and went to work for TSA. I would feel better seeing more of this. They should be recruiting ex law enforcement or military and paying them enough to make it atractive. At least at the management level.
I flew right after 9-11, where they were telling people to be at the airport 3 hours early. Well I showed up 3 hours early which was 3 in the AM and they showed up 20 minutes before the flight. I voiced my displeasure, of having to get up at 1 AM to be there 3. They gave me everything but the full cavity search, and then again at the layover in Denver
[quote]pushharder wrote:
Lots more of this type stuff coming in our future.[/quote]
I suspect that’s there lots more going on already. This guy is just the tip of the iceberg.
Mine threatened to falsify a report so as to get me arrested for a felony. Nice guy…
mike
…creepy thugs.
BTW, a friendly reminder that it’s almost April 15.
had he answered that question they probably would have seized the cash.
“the man was shaky and nervous as the answered the question, he was carry militia propaganda, i believe he was lying to me. So i took the shirt off his back.”
you could always stand outside the airport in some old clothes with a sign reading “will repack you luggage for a dollar”
…but had the guy been an ay-rab, then they’d better take him back with all that cash! (or a protester!)
[quote]Mikeyali wrote:
http://www.theagitator.com/2009/04/02/detained-by-tsa/
I had a similar incident when I accidently left a magazine for my Beretta in my carry-on as my wife and I set out on our honeymoon. These guys are scumbags and bullies through and through.
mike[/quote]
The anchor in your video asks: “Is that the face of a terrorist?”
Seems like a shady defender of Freedom.
[quote]lixy wrote:
Mikeyali wrote:
http://www.theagitator.com/2009/04/02/detained-by-tsa/
I had a similar incident when I accidently left a magazine for my Beretta in my carry-on as my wife and I set out on our honeymoon. These guys are scumbags and bullies through and through.
mike
The anchor in your video asks: “Is that the face of a terrorist?”
Seems like a shady defender of Freedom.[/quote]
Agreed. But that doesn’t make this any less ridiculous.
[quote]pittbulll wrote:
I flew right after 9-11, where they were telling people to be at the airport 3 hours early. Well I showed up 3 hours early which was 3 in the AM and they showed up 20 minutes before the flight. I voiced my displeasure, of having to get up at 1 AM to be there 3. They gave me everything but the full cavity search, and then again at the layover in Denver[/quote]
as if you had somehow obtained something on the plane?
[quote]lixy wrote:
Mikeyali wrote:
http://www.theagitator.com/2009/04/02/detained-by-tsa/
I had a similar incident when I accidently left a magazine for my Beretta in my carry-on as my wife and I set out on our honeymoon. These guys are scumbags and bullies through and through.
mike
The anchor in your video asks: “Is that the face of a terrorist?”
Seems like a shady defender of Freedom.[/quote]
Agreed, if we only went looking at arabs then they’d just hire some white guys in a tough situation.
mike
[quote]Chushin wrote:
Mikeyali wrote:
Mine threatened to falsify a report so as to get me arrested for a felony. Nice guy…
mike
I’d be interested in the whole story, Mike, if you’re willing.[/quote]
It’s not terribly exciting, but here’s the scoop:
I got kidnapped the day before my wedding for my bachelor party. On the way out I yell out to my wife to make sure she brings my backpack. I needed it for my carryon when we went on our honeymoon. She forgot it and had a friend get it. It had a full Beretta mag in a hidden pocket.
Anyshit I get married and we are going through the checkpoint at the airport when a TSA agent pulls me off to the side. My wife says, “You don’t have to be so rude!” so the TSA agent says, “Well then you can come along too!”
So he starts giving me the third degree asking me if I knew why I got pulled out of line which I honestly didn’t. I didn’t know I had the mag in there.
He finally tells me and I chuckle. I didn’t think it was a big deal but he is being deadly serious.
“Why do you have a clip?” (fucktard called the mag a clip)
“Because I have a gun.”
My wife recognized this as being more serious than I was taking it and tried to cut in and clarify things. He looked at her and said, “The best thing you can do is to shut your mouth. I can make this situation much worse than it is.”
At this point I started to get angry with him talking to my wife like that. But I stayed cool and didn’t curse him out or anything. He kept asking me stupid questions which I suppose now I shouldn’t have answered without a lawyer present.
I told him that this was all an accident and that I didn’t know I had the mag but that I didn’t think it was a big deal. At this time he told the lady at the checkpoint to shut down the entire checkpoint. I assume we was just making a scene and pressuring me. I had this done to me by the local police at a grocery store once over me legally OC’ing.
“Not serious? How would you feel if you knew the person next to you was carrying a deadly weapon?!”
At which point my wife interjected, “Deadly weapon? What’s he going to do, throw the rounds at people?!”
He told me wife to shut up. I became agitated and he turned to me and said, “I can tell this was an honest accident, but if you don’t cooperate with me I will put this in my report so as to get you charged with a felony. Do not mess with me.”
At that time I demanded his name. He put his finger over half of the numbers on his TSA badge and said, “This is all you’re going to get.”
I looked under the big badge to a smaller one under it and said, “Is that so Oscar L. Olsen?”
He obviously didn’t like this. Well another friend who was there was on a cell phone to her lawyer. My wife knew her from college republicans when we actually were Republicans. He told her to get off her phone and she refused. About this time he realized this may be trouble and said that I can ship the mag back but can’t bring it on. I said okay, and had her get a box. He then refused to release it because it had ammo in it and it’s a federal crime to ship ammo apparently.
I told him to keep the ammo. He refused to saying that it isn’t his job to handle my ammo. At this time I got pissed and did what any dumbass vet does and pulled the vet card on him. But he seemed to think his time in the air force many decades ago made him immune to it. Mind you the checkpoint has been closed for 15 minutes now and this whole encounter is at about 30 minutes. He said the only way I’m getting the mag back is if he takes me to a police station and hands it over to me in front of a cop.
I told him let’s do it even though I’d miss my flight. My wife at this time was crying and urged me into just letting it go. Being our honeymoon and all I finally told him to keep it, said, “Semper Fi asshole” and walked off.
Again, nothing exciting but it is a good example of being threatened and bullied by men in uniform.
I was later offered a job with TSA and still have one if I want it but for some reason I seem to desire to stand on principal and am turning down several jobs which would pay me well, opting instead to keep my current crap job with bad pay. Not an easy choice when you’re the sole breadwinner for the family.
mike
[quote]Mikeyali wrote:
I was later offered a job with TSA and still have one if I want it but for some reason I seem to desire to stand on principal and am turning down several jobs which would pay me well, opting instead to keep my current crap job with bad pay. Not an easy choice when you’re the sole breadwinner for the family.
mike[/quote]
Thank you for not taking these jobs.
And not just because I would hate to shoot at a man like you when the revolution comes ;-)…
[quote]Mikeyali wrote:
lixy wrote:
Mikeyali wrote:
http://www.theagitator.com/2009/04/02/detained-by-tsa/
I had a similar incident when I accidently left a magazine for my Beretta in my carry-on as my wife and I set out on our honeymoon. These guys are scumbags and bullies through and through.
mike
The anchor in your video asks: “Is that the face of a terrorist?”
Seems like a shady defender of Freedom.
Agreed, if we only went looking at arabs then they’d just hire some white guys in a tough situation.
mike [/quote]
That’s not the point I was trying to make. It’s the implication that if the man had “the face of a terrorist”, it would have been OK to harass him.
And how can you possibly bring up skin color? Technically, Arabs are caucasians.
I was flying commercial on my way back to california from Iraq. Our military flight came into the states and we were shuttled to a civilian airport. At the airport, after checking in my bags, rifle, pistol, and magazines for both, I got tagged for extra attention because I had a one-way ticket that was bought that morning (by the government).
They swabbed my back pack at the checkpoint and it tested positive for explosives. I told the TSA guy “I would expect it would test positive, I had grenades it in three days ago”. After about 30 minutes and a review of my orders, two searches of my carry on and a conversation with the supervisor I was allowed to go on about my day.
I was wearing my cammies, so it was kind of obvious that I was a Marine. The supervisor suggested that I should clean my gear better. What a great welcome home.