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Friday, July 11, 2008 12:00 AM

Ask the pilot

Propped up by a culture of fear, TSA has become a bureaucracy with too much power and little accountability. Where will the lunacy stop?
By Patrick Smith

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  • Friday, July 11, 2008 11:12 AM

    "This is Going to Get Melted Down to Make a Monument to 9/11"

    Tracey Ullman also did another character more recently, this time it's another TSA staffer named Chanel Monticello...

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=tMFh0XXkU1Y

    Best line, to a woman with a pair of tweezers:

    "You can not take those pilot killers on a plane! You could kill a pilot with these. You could disable a steward with these."

    "Ipods away, Ipods away..."

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