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TSA Has Been Compiling A Shitlist Of Travelers It Just Doesn't Like
The TSA is the worst. Super-secret watchlists can keep people from flying -- people deemed too dangerous to travel but not dangerous enough to arrest. This isn't the TSA's fault. Not these lists. Those are maintained by agencies who could possibly cobble together enough intel to build a flimsy case against these "dangerous" would-be travelers.
The TSA, however, maintains its own database of travelers. It can't necessarily keep them from boarding airplanes, but it can give agents a heads up that the person in the queue probably needs to be detained and hassled. [via Boing Boing]
[...] It's an agency shitlist, and only the TSA knows who's on it. This list doesn't contain people who've actually assaulted agents, but people who've expressed their displeasure with intrusive gropings through words or non-violent deeds. The agency's official statements make it clear this is an arbitrary way to punish travelers who make agents unhappy, noting that it neither requires "injury" to a TSA employee nor the intent to do so. Instead, the list contains anyone who presents a "challenge" to the "safe and effective completion of screening."
(Score: 5, Funny) by krishnoid on Tuesday June 05 2018, @04:43AM (1 child)
"What the hell do you want? I'm late for my plane."
"Sir, we need to pat you down further."
"Hell no! Get off me!"
"Sir, please stop and move to the side here so I can take a report. First of all, what's your name?"
"It's difficult, and I doubt a TSA monkey like you would be able to spell it. I'll have to type it in for you."
"Ok, fine."
"Here you go, it's Jeffrey'); drop table TSA_Problem_Flyers; -- "
"Now I'll have to pat you down."
"Certainly officer. You're doing a difficult job, and thanks for keeping our country safe."
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday June 06 2018, @05:28AM
Used to be, when Joe Schlemiel married Alice Schlemazel they'd be Joe Schlemiel and Alice Schlemiel. Or Mr. & Mrs. Joe Schlemiel. But now, feminism. They get married now, they become Joe Schlemiel-Schlemazel and Alice Schlemiel-Schlemazel. Very politically correct. But a big hassle when somebody goes to write, or type, those names. And for the kids. Say the kid is Eddie Schlemiel-Schlemazel, he gets hitched with Sarah Shmendrik-Schmuck. They do the hyphens again, they call themselves Eddie Schlemiel-Schlemazel-Shmendrik-Schmuck and Sarah Schlemiel-Schlemazel-Shmendrik-Schmuck. I call it VERY ANNOYING. But yours, frankly, is much worse than that. Yours really takes the cake. And I pray you don't have kids. Because a name like that can be very tough for a kid!!!!