We’ve all experienced the lines, the wait and the flurry of grabbing our items off the conveyor belt after going through security at the airport. Apparently, we’re so rushed we leave behind that little bowl of whatever we had shoved in our pocket. Annually, that comes to about $400,000 per year. And, that money...
The Transportation Security Administration has picked up its VIPR program, finding new ways to pat down and chat up people who use any mode of transportation. According to the LA Times, the TSA’s Visible Intermodel Prevention and Response program has conducted more than 9,300 inspections at bus stations, highways, subways and other places people...
So just when we think the TSA just isn’t cool — they go and prove us wrong. Freddie Gibbs thought he’d be able to put his dope in his checked bag. But the TSA found the grass and thought it would be a good idea to let him off with a note, which simply...
Travelers are consumers and the TSA wants to have someone on the consumer’s side: So why not have TSA agents do the job. Known as Advocates, these new agents would serve as that ombudsman for consumers to gripe to. Currently, the TSA has been using suggestion boxes or similar systems at 450 airports around...
Questionable tastes in fashion have made everyone a critic, now the TSA is entering the fray.
It’s Thanksgiving — and you should be thankful that you’re not going through security. However, the TSA has issued its longest ever turkey day security tips. The posting on the The TSA Blog is the longest ever — and some of them are more inane than ever. Blogger Bob, the list’s author, attempts to...
We’ve been saying it for years, but we’re not alone. Jaunted, the travel website with attitude, goes at the TSA again, pointing out how the TSA has ignored public health concerns over its cancer causing, clothes peeking, body image scanners. Jaunted said in its story Saturday: Remember when travelers complained about the potential cancer...
Blogger Bob, the TSA agent who writes on the official TSA Blog, a taxpayer funded propaganda website, didn’t care for the rash of shit the TSA got last week from news agencies reporting on the TSA moving into Tennessee to thwart terrorists. So it wrote about it. Here’s it’s blog post. From Blogger Bob...
Not everyone travels with a vibrator in their carry on luggage. Or maybe they do. But when one TSA agent found the device in one woman’s bag, he made sure to leave her a note that said “Get your freak on girl”. The note went unnoticed for the passenger who was flying from Newark...
According to the TSA, we're all terrorists until we can prove we're not. Now, the TSA is no longer limited to patrolling the airports, they're on our roads and riding the rails. Be prepared to be on your best behavior when ever you leave the house.
