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I was on a recent flight. I had to get my laptop out of its bag. The TSA wanker picks it up, dropped it (by accident) and broke the wireless card. She picked it back up and threw it on the conveyor without a word of apology.
I was in Dallas when they put in the full-body scanners. Who needs porn when you get to see real people naked?? They don't have gender-segregated lines, so male TSA are watching naked women come through the line. What a job for a perv!
The TSA is incredibly reactionary. We don't have a coherent policy on flight safety; we just have a series of rules based on past happenings. Lockerbie -- take out your electronics. Shoe bomb -- take off your shoes, etc. So of course, it's arbitrary and silly. If we ever get a rational being in charge of Homeland Security, perhaps they could come up with a policy that would make sense to the airlines and the public.
