wally34949

It makes me mad when I see people pretending to be disabled. As I mentioned, they did "walk" on the plane and they didn't look real happy ten minutes before take-off. What happened at security, I guess I will never know.

LT

Wally, I think you did the right thing. I don't think I would have sought out as many TSA people as you did, but I might have notified the gate agent.

To all of you TSA bashers, what's your better alternative?

HKP

"It makes me mad when I see people pretending to be disabled."

Be careful, Wally. These two were clearly shamming a disability, but don't assume anything about people who are able to walk onto a plane, "even though" they have been designated handicapped and get pre-boarded. There are all kinds of medical problems that don't stop you from walking a short distance, or perhaps don't even stop you from walking at all but require specific seating arrangements.

Mamamia

Those TSA people are pin-heads. We're all aware of it. They treat their job just as the one flipping burgers at MacDonalds... I guess things would need to get much worse here (terrorism) before the Federal government takes it more seriously and deals with airport security as it should...

...But the other side of the coin is, I'm sure these TSA people also get many "false alarms" from travelers, every day... The same NUTS can be the hysteric ones who see a bomb in every bulging handbag...

To me, those 2 guys were maybe drunk, maybe on drugs, or maybe just two idiots. And maybe all of the above. My logic says, that a real terrorist would try NOT to turn any attention to himself, unlike those two clowns.

Nevertheless, I agree, I would turn TSA's attention, and if unresponsive, I'd find a POLICEMAN.

Apres_Londee

I'm with you, wally. If it were me, I would have screamed bloody murder. Pretending to be completely incognizant is pretty extreme, and I would definately have seen that as a potential risk.

At best, those jerks are complete morons who deserve to be btch-slapped for acting so rude and selfish, and delibrately wasting other people's time.

At worst, they could have been up to some sort of genuine criminal activity.

Either way it's unacceptable. They shouldn't have been allowed on the flight (I'm assuming they got busted after you talked to the manager?)

wally34949

I don't know if they got busted or not, but they sure did have the TSA people working at the airport. I think I counted 30 TSA people, and that only accounts for the one side of the airport. And PBIA is no Heathrow when it comes to airport size.

Whether we believe TSA is a joke or not, we are paying for it dearly, (Thanks for the additional taxes, Republicans) and we should report anything suspecious.

PrincessOfPenguins

>> Aren't we suppose to report suspicious situations? <<

Did you also report your neighbors as Soviet spies in the 50s?

wally34949

Guess I'm younger than you. No.

Reisender

Princess, our neighbors must have been spies....they talked funny and dressed oddly and ate lots of boiled cabbage. I still think they were a bunch of pinko commie bed-wetters.

PrincessOfPenguins

Reisender: did they stink of that boiled cabbage? Or release those cabbage farts? That's terrorism right there?

Apres_Londee

I'm a pinko commie, and even I can see the difference between reporting someone to airport security who is completely misrepresenting themselves *to* airport security, and reporting someone who is minding their own business in the privacy of their own homes.