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jrtomOr apparently so some employees of the TSA believe:
http://www.nowpublic.com/nightmare_at_reagan_national_airport_a_security_story_to_end_all_security_stories
Get a grip, guys. Try to remember what it is that you're meant to accomplish. Hint: it's not your personal aggrandizement via petty power trips.
(I have recently spoken, in![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
amnesiadust's LJ, on the subject of cops and why it makes sense that they're often difficult to deal with, namely that people treat them like crap as much as possible and they're often in constant danger of assault. Those factors, for the most part, don't apply here: airline travelers are generally polite and cooperative while they're going through security, and the risk of any of them offering aggression to a TSA worker is basically nil--and even if it happened, they've got backup all around them. TSA workers who act as those in the above story do have, as far as I'm concerned, no excuse.)
http://www.nowpublic.com/nightmare_at_reagan_national_airport_a_security_story_to_end_all_security_stories
Get a grip, guys. Try to remember what it is that you're meant to accomplish. Hint: it's not your personal aggrandizement via petty power trips.
(I have recently spoken, in
amnesiadust's LJ, on the subject of cops and why it makes sense that they're often difficult to deal with, namely that people treat them like crap as much as possible and they're often in constant danger of assault. Those factors, for the most part, don't apply here: airline travelers are generally polite and cooperative while they're going through security, and the risk of any of them offering aggression to a TSA worker is basically nil--and even if it happened, they've got backup all around them. TSA workers who act as those in the above story do have, as far as I'm concerned, no excuse.)
Oh good, I'm not the only one!!!
Date: 25 June 2007 04:41 (UTC)Congrats on the new babies!
I had a similar experience at LAX (although without being detained)! I was traveling with Ellie (16 months) and I had 4oz of water in her sippy cup. TSA officer asked me if it was juice and I told him that it was water. I was told that I cannot bring water through security, even for kids. I tried to explained that it was boiled water and that Ellie hasn't had tap water yet, but I was told that it didn't matter. I asked to speak to the supervisor who told me that next time I should tell the security officer that my daughter "has a medical condition requiring her to have water." I was stunned and I asked him whether "life" would be concidered such a condition :). In the end I poured out the water into a trash can, took the cup and got Ellie bottled water before boarding the plane, but the whole thing left me completely outraged!