Thieves Standing Around

[Aesop]

If I had to fly somewhere, I'd sooner take a train or bus to Mexico or Canada, and fly to and from there to points overseas. Which I may yet do.

If work next year goes like this year has, I'll spend the money to get rated, and fly myowndamnself, and TSA can bite my shiny metal ass.

The reason I avoid the airports like plague is that flying isn't worth the 25 years in Joliet I'd get for choking the living shit out of the first TSAsshole who deserved it.
It takes all the self control I can muster now not to buy suitcases at Target and other department stores, put flat lead sheet outlines of revolvers, pistols, and grenades into the linings, and then return them to the store for a full refund, then sit back and wait for the fun to start.

[toad]

What would be fun would be to use various luggage vendors in Washington DC. Also do it to messenger bags, and brief cases.

[toad]

Get some "people" to show up at the private side of the air field impersonate TSA and start body cavity searches.

[Old Grafton]

I steadfastly refuse to fly commercial until TSA is disbanded.

"No one good, decent, honest, competent, moral or ethical has ever been employed by TSA in any capacity whatsoever." - Weaponsman.com

After the abuse I was given in Chicago in 2003 I swore the same oath. Bought a 25' camper and a diesel F250 to pull it and we vacation when and where we want. Screw the TSA.

[dfwmtx]

If I ever accidentally leave a knife in my bags which gets found by the TSA, I will break said knife in the airport rather than let TSA confiscate it and sell it.

I insist upon the pat-down search. If we're required to have these little fascists, then let them earn their pay and deal with me. I won't enter their porno scanners. Sure, they say the scanners are safe, but they said the same thing to all the soldiers involved in those A-bomb tests, and this is the same government that pulled off the Tuskegee experiments.

I need to print up a bunch of shirt saying "Fuck the TSA" and offer them for sale. Preferably just outside the security entrances.

[Netpackrat]

If you live in Alaska and want to go out of state, your practical choices are between TSA security once on a one-way trip, or once each through Canadian and US border security (and no handguns). It's also possible to spend a week plus on a state ferry if you want to avoid that, but unless you live in southeast AK, you still generally have to choose between the TSA and US+Canadian customs. A few times each year they have a voyage to Bellingham that originates in Valdez, for an even longer boat ride. If you don't get off the boat in any of the Canadian ports, then you should be OK. Although, your vehicle is still subject to possible search getting on the boat.

[Greg]

I've often thought one could make a pretty penny opening a kiosk at an airport providing shipping services. Provide the pre-paid box (Fed Ex, UPS, USPS, whatever) and the promise to drop it into the mail by COB that day. Charge, say, $20 over the postage. Lots of people would rather mail their pocket knives home than lose them because they forgot it was in their pocket.

Hmmmmm. Sounds like a good franchise opportunity . Might have to look into that.

That exact service was provided at SeaTac by a frozen food company. Silly me, I had to use it too. I think I wrote about it on the forum.

[Jered]

If I had my way the whole Department of Homeland Security would be disbanded, the pre-existing Federal agencies that are part of it (Coast Guard for instance) should go back to what they were. All the Patriot Act did was add a level of bureaucracy without adding one bit to national safety. But as I said above, it'll never happen.

This man speaks truth.

Customs, INS, and USDA APHIS were the border inspection agencies.