We always love a good story about the TSA, because whatever they do seems to be moronic. Over at ZUG, John Hargrave explains his latest encounter with the TSA when he was busted trying to smuggle 12 ounces of extremely dangerous salad dressing on to a flight. Here's a taste-
Ah, yes. The "three ounces or less" rule. According to the TSA Web site, all liquids must be in "three-ounce or smaller containers," placed in a "single, quart-size, zip-top, clear plastic bag." I had a 12-ounce bottle of salad dressing, wrapped in suspicious brown paper. I felt this was close enough.
The TSA agent thought differently. "Sorry, we can't allow this on," she told me, unwrapping the bottle.
"It's only salad dressing," I told her, hoping to get her sympathy. "For my wife." Chicks love it when you talk about your wife. Unless they're your second wife.
"Sorry," she said. "I'll have to confiscate it."
"I'm pretty sure it doesn't contain explosives," I said, trying to win her over. "Unless we're talking about an explosion of flavor."
Actually, there is nothing moronic about it. She was doing her job, and your the moron with the issues. 12 ounces isn't close to 3 ounces. Go buy some damn salad dressing when you get off the plane, jeez.
If TSA was like you, planes would have been blown up a long time ago.
Posted by: | May 03, 2008 at 01:19 PM
PS: What are you going to do, put salad dressing on your crackers, if you even get that?
Posted by: | May 03, 2008 at 01:21 PM
Actually the moronic thing is the idea that liquids are more dangerous than solids. There are lots of practical (i.e. suitable for the purpose of causing an explosion on the plane) solid explosives, but there are no practical liquid ones.
So allowing chocolate on, but banning salad dressing is moronic. Believing 3 oz is safe and 12 oz isn't is moronic. Thinking the size of a clear plastic bag matters is moronic.
The only reason for these regulations is to condition people to accept every rule the government makes, no matter how absurd. And you Sir are part of the problem. Not enough that you are unwilling to confront these idiotic regulations, you are defending them as well. It's because of people like you that freedom is lost.
Posted by: | August 12, 2008 at 11:46 AM
Yea no sympathy with me pal! The TSA are doing their jobs, plain and simple. It is nothing personal. It could be worse, over seas the security is a million times more oppresive and intrusive. I respect the jobs of these people even more now that I see the level of entitlement people feel they have, next time you might not be so moronic to smuggle the dressing past the TSA in violation of its set policy..No sympathy pal, play within the rules like we all do...
Posted by: kev. | July 15, 2009 at 09:54 AM
How you above posters liking the naked body scanners now? Let me ask you this, how many terrorist have the TSA caught?The answer is zero. Welcome to east Berlin.
Posted by: Joe | November 14, 2010 at 06:43 AM
i'm just curious if the TSA is doing their jobs to molest and strip search children?!?!?!?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSQTz1bccL4
Posted by: concerned | November 22, 2010 at 11:13 PM