In on CNN (http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/05/18/security.airports.reut/index.html)

Officers are taught to look for abnormal behavior in passengers, such as people wearing coats when it's warm in order to disguise bombs, or people acting fidgety or nervous.

Great! So some scared-of-flying lill'ol lady will get bum rushed by a numb nuts TSA agent.

Imaging your self in between flights. You get hungry. There's a Taco Bell in the food court. After three tacos and two bean burritos with extra hot sauce and a large diet cock you first feel then hear a very embarrassing rumbling in the vicinity of your intestines. You start to make a "funny- suspicious" face, you hold yourself around your waist and start frantically walking around in search of a toilette. It is then that your are being tackled by two TSA bullies from behind.

Imagine that mess…. :D

Freudian slip there N380UA?

Funny how a word out of context can throw you right off the story.

... and a large diet cock ...
Fat free? .......................

It was that and the use of the word 'intestines' in the same line that lost me.

>>>>>>>Imaging your self<<<<<<<<


What's Freudian about that, one wus thinkin'

Tee hee........

A low fat concealed weapon.

Is the evidence for that circumstantial only? Or was it a genuine balls up?

That word certainly stands out............what was the rest of it all about?

That word certainly stands out............what was the rest of it all about?

Your nutrionist was discussing your diet Jerricho ;) :E

I've seen similar 'advice' to security staff before. They are supposed to look out for nervous or abnormally calm passengers.

Well, that should account for 95% of the punters..............

I was singled-out for 'special' treatment at CDG, returning from a wedding. Jackets had to be removed for screening, and I also had the 'pleasure' of removing my shoes (humiliation). What was my circumstances? I was pi55ed-off having had to stand in a long queue whilst the Customs and Excise (?) removed a goat from under the cloak of an African would-be traveller, whilst wife and daughter had joined a different queue and were already THROUGH screening and away. I was already carrying my raincoat etc etc. Nice one (Ms) Jobsworth - really made my day!

Ground breaking stuff from the TSA; it's not like the Israeli’s have been doing this successfully for the last twenty years or more. Of course, there may be some minor differences in the motivational and intellectual human factors between the TSA and the Israeli's...

380UA

I imagine not quite the way you had hoped the thread to go huh?

Your nutrionist was discussing your diet Jerricho ;) :E

Ooooooo.....very ouch. :*



;)

How many two bean burritos did you have, November?

Sky marshals don't think much of their program:

20/20 report (http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=1980359)
:sad:

Instead of requiring them to board FIRST, why not just have a tag 'Seat reserved for Air Marshal' - that would protect their identity . . .

Jackets had to be removed for screening, and I also had the 'pleasure' of removing my shoes
Standard practice in many airports, especially some in the US (MIA being the worst in my experience). Also add hand baggage search, all over body patting and hair groping, while in uniform, and all that carried out in front of pax by grumpy and less than polite "agents" :ugh:

Whilst I don't believe that aircrew should be free of all checks, surely they could have 'sympathetic' treatment in private.
"Please sir Captain Mainwaring, I'd like to volunteer to pat the body of Flyblue . . . ":E

Corporal Jones:- http://www.davecovcomedy.co.uk/whispersfromwalmington/catchphrases.htm

Oh I don't know FlyBlue the TSA in ORD take some beating. One of these days it will be literal.:rolleyes:

I had a run in with them over a fibreglass spoiler for our car. Your not taking that onboard, until I told them that I had cleared it with the Captain and anyway he'd just let a baseball bat through. Utter kn0bs.

On a flight returning from PRG, one passenger actually talked through a CROSSBOW as carry-on luggage! It WAS 'wrapped' (and possibly 'disabled' - or at least not cocked) but I was amazed when he appeared at NCL still with it . . .
Wonder if he got it through customs . . . :confused:

They are supposed to look out for nervous or abnormally calm passengers, and in the States, anyone with a BMI less than 25....

WC, Ben et-al

When I read the article, I was rolling on the floor laughing. As I was thinking about it – said scenario – I really couldn’t control myself any more. I already saw the headlines; Pax ate too many burritos and crapped on TSA Agent.

I guess all that had me a bit of concentration. Other then making a good fool of myself I'm surprised how far this thread is going. I guess I must pay more attention to the details…

Cheers y'all
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