Comments on: I Guess My Deodorant Looked Like C-4 http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2007/10/11/i-guess-my-deodorant-looked-like-c-4/ If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen. — Samuel Adams Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:18:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: DBK http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2007/10/11/i-guess-my-deodorant-looked-like-c-4/comment-page-1/#comment-12811 DBK Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:11:42 +0000 http://www.scrutinyhooligans.us/?p=4187#comment-12811 Arratik, I had the same experience. Their approved locks are a waste of money. They open them and then don't replace them. Here's another TSA waste of time and money. Mrs DBK and I recently flew to Minneapolis and back. Because the airlines now lose or misdirect one out of eight bags, we decided to just do carry-on for the short flight. Since we almost always have checked our bags, we forgot you had to put everything liquid or paste in baggies. Flying out to Minneapolis our stuff went through untouched. They didn't even give it a glance. So we basically were able to slip through security leaving Newark (and didn't two or three of the planes that were hijacked on September 11, 2001 fly out of Newark?) On the way back they caught the security breach at the Minneapolis Airport (the same airport where they caught that notorious criminal, Senator Larry Craig, cruising for action in the men's room...they know how to protect Americans in Minneapolis). So they open our bags in front of us and it was all very polite and amiable, except that they knew it was a waste of their time and we knew it. Anyway, there we are with the bags open and these guys are putting the stuff in my dopp kit into a plastic baggy. Why? They were already looking at everything in the bag. It wasn't like they were locking it up in the bag so I couldn't take out that dangerous tube of neosporin and kill all the topical bacteria on the flight or something equally as heinous. They put my stuff into a plastic bag, put the bag back into my dopp kit, zipped my backpack up, and handed it back to me. Well, that certainly saved lives and time, I can tell you. Arratik,
I had the same experience. Their approved locks are a waste of money. They open them and then don’t replace them.

Here’s another TSA waste of time and money. Mrs DBK and I recently flew to Minneapolis and back. Because the airlines now lose or misdirect one out of eight bags, we decided to just do carry-on for the short flight. Since we almost always have checked our bags, we forgot you had to put everything liquid or paste in baggies. Flying out to Minneapolis our stuff went through untouched. They didn’t even give it a glance. So we basically were able to slip through security leaving Newark (and didn’t two or three of the planes that were hijacked on September 11, 2001 fly out of Newark?) On the way back they caught the security breach at the Minneapolis Airport (the same airport where they caught that notorious criminal, Senator Larry Craig, cruising for action in the men’s room…they know how to protect Americans in Minneapolis). So they open our bags in front of us and it was all very polite and amiable, except that they knew it was a waste of their time and we knew it. Anyway, there we are with the bags open and these guys are putting the stuff in my dopp kit into a plastic baggy. Why? They were already looking at everything in the bag. It wasn’t like they were locking it up in the bag so I couldn’t take out that dangerous tube of neosporin and kill all the topical bacteria on the flight or something equally as heinous. They put my stuff into a plastic bag, put the bag back into my dopp kit, zipped my backpack up, and handed it back to me. Well, that certainly saved lives and time, I can tell you.

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]]> By: shad marsh http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2007/10/11/i-guess-my-deodorant-looked-like-c-4/comment-page-1/#comment-12809 shad marsh Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:28:07 +0000 http://www.scrutinyhooligans.us/?p=4187#comment-12809 that's one fine packing job! that’s one fine packing job!

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]]> By: Arratik http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2007/10/11/i-guess-my-deodorant-looked-like-c-4/comment-page-1/#comment-12804 Arratik Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:35:53 +0000 http://www.scrutinyhooligans.us/?p=4187#comment-12804 Don't get me wrong - I don't mind the TSA rifling through my luggage. In fact, I was under the impression that they were doing this before 9/11 anyway. And random luggage searches are much better than, say, random full body cavity searches... No, what I do mind is the TSA not putting the TSA-approved lock back on my bag after they're done conducting their search! :( Don’t get me wrong – I don’t mind the TSA rifling through my luggage. In fact, I was under the impression that they were doing this before 9/11 anyway. And random luggage searches are much better than, say, random full body cavity searches…

No, what I do mind is the TSA not putting the TSA-approved lock back on my bag after they’re done conducting their search! :(

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]]> By: Richard Bernier http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2007/10/11/i-guess-my-deodorant-looked-like-c-4/comment-page-1/#comment-12802 Richard Bernier Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:09:36 +0000 http://www.scrutinyhooligans.us/?p=4187#comment-12802 Eah time that I have flew in the last two years, I too have found a card 5 out of 7 times. I have no problem with them searching my bags beacuse in the end - it just might save lifes. Eah time that I have flew in the last two years, I too have found a card 5 out of 7 times.

I have no problem with them searching my bags beacuse in the end – it just might save lifes.

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]]> By: Drama Queen http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2007/10/11/i-guess-my-deodorant-looked-like-c-4/comment-page-1/#comment-12797 Drama Queen Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:22:48 +0000 http://www.scrutinyhooligans.us/?p=4187#comment-12797 Huff got that when we arrived in Boise last month. Huff got that when we arrived in Boise last month.

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]]> By: petulant http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2007/10/11/i-guess-my-deodorant-looked-like-c-4/comment-page-1/#comment-12796 petulant Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:14:08 +0000 http://www.scrutinyhooligans.us/?p=4187#comment-12796 I love that slogan! "Smart Security Saves Time!" I love that slogan! “Smart Security Saves Time!”

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]]> By: rip http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2007/10/11/i-guess-my-deodorant-looked-like-c-4/comment-page-1/#comment-12794 rip Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:31:44 +0000 http://www.scrutinyhooligans.us/?p=4187#comment-12794 Probably fit the lefty blogger profile????? Probably fit the lefty blogger profile?????

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