More security theater
The Tennessee Highway Patrol launched a security sweep of trucks as part of a homeland security operation on Thursday morning.
Troopers pulled over every truck traveling west on I-40 at the weigh station between Campbell Station Road and Watt Road.
May 4th, 2007 at 9:38 am
Theater indeed.
Just like the TSA.
I recently got through with an “assisted open” Kershaw knife (OK it was keychain size) that I had forgotten about and some hand exercise putty that might as well have been plastique.
My wife got through with her keychain cannister of pepper spray!
Yet they made some fourteen year old girls toss out their mascara.
May 10th, 2007 at 9:13 am
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