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Richard X asked in News & EventsCurrent Events · 10 years ago

TSA: Have they actually found anything dangerous?

Anyone know if the TSA has actually found anything dangerous and prevented it from being on an airplane? I'm not talking the little bottles of shampoo and other piddling no-nos that most people get taken away from them.

Or are they just confined to groping old ladies, children and folks in wheelchairs?

Update:

And those deadly nail clippers...

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  • 10 years ago
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    Yes, they've found they can make money for nothing

  • 10 years ago

    I think what they do to people at airports has more to do with control, than it does with safety. I haven't heard of one incident where they found something that would have been a problem if they hadn't be feeling up old ladies and small children. They say they need to do these searches randomly, no profiling. It makes no sense. A 95-year-old American woman traveling with her daughter isn't going to be concealing a bomb in her Depends. If they were doing it to protect people, they would search everyone, not just the person who's number is up.

  • 10 years ago

    That's like asking if an electric fence has killed anyone. The TSA is there to deter people from trying their luck with smuggling. Their presence is what's keeping those attackers at bay.

  • 10 years ago

    No, they haven't.

    The airline cleaning crew found the stun gun on the plane. Gee, I wonder how that one got past the TSA gropers...

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