The TSA at work
Agents left a suspected pipe bomb laying around for six hours before calling a bomb squad. The supposed pipe bombs turned out to be some sort of tree-hugging medical kit. The dumb-assery here is stunning. First, it has springs so it might be a bomb. Then to leave what may be a bomb laying around that long.
Routine, pointless indignity: Obama trying to expand TSA’s reach.
February 1st, 2012 at 3:36 pm
Um, that would be “lying around.” You Gen X and Gen Y folks really do need to go back to school.
February 1st, 2012 at 3:39 pm
P.s. Uncle, do you know the difference between transitive and intransitive verbs? Just asking.
February 1st, 2012 at 4:24 pm
so in other words, they did NOT really believe it was a bomb. because that is not the way any competent adult treats a suspected bomb, and between their words and their actions i’ll judge them by their actions — words are too easy to fake.
so what was really going on? some trained simian going on a power trip to confiscate somebody’s luggage, then going off shift before the situation could be resolved and somebody else using “we thought it was a bomb” as a face-saving excuse? or just a totally incompetent clusterfsck without any reasonable, rational explanation at all? who knows. but if anybody truly believed that that was a bomb, they were (1) utterly clueless and/or (2) powerless to get done what should be done with actual bomb threats.
or possibly (3), nobody at that TSA post has any faintest idea what real bombs actually are and can actually do. which wouldn’t surprise me either.
February 1st, 2012 at 5:34 pm
There’s that “competent” word. Remember who we’re talking about here.
February 1st, 2012 at 7:55 pm
I am a tree hugger, and let me tell you, homeopathy is not tree hugging, it’s nonsense. It’s bunko that does absolutely nothing, and anyone who ever took high school chemistry can confirm that. Every so often, you hear about true believers in homeopathic medicine who kill their kids by failure to procure effective treatments for their kids’ illnesses. It makes me mad.
February 1st, 2012 at 9:38 pm
I had the TSA confiscate a can of shaving cream one time. The reason was it could be dangerous because it is more than 3oz of liquid. Then they tossed it in the trashcan behind them. I asked them if it was safe enough to put in their trashcan, could I have it back? They didn’t like that very much.
February 2nd, 2012 at 1:14 am
… extend the TSA’s reach?
The colon spasms.