Confusion and delays at Orlando airport after TSA agent falls to his death
An off-duty Transportation Security Administration officer fell to his death Saturday from a hotel balcony inside Florida's Orlando International Airport, officials said, sending confused travelers scattering past security checkpoints unscreened and causing flight delays.
There were varying descriptions about what happened. Orlando police said a man in his 40s jumped, in an apparent suicide, from the Hyatt Regency Hotel onto an atrium floor in the main terminal at about 9:30 a.m. ET.
TSA spokeswoman Jenny Burke identified the man as an off-duty TSA officer, and said he fell from one of the multilevel hotel's balconies, which overlooks an area where people line up for one of the airport's security checkpoints.
[...] Trista Eaden told Spectrum News 13, a CNN affiliate, that she was waiting in line for screening when she heard a loud bang. "Then I saw the TSA agents standing up, and all of a sudden they just told us to run, to just go through the screening," Eaden said. The TSA said that several passengers scattered past the security areas without screening. All passengers at gates 70 to 129 had to be rescreened, the airport said.
Also at the Orlando Sentinel.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 03 2019, @07:22PM (2 children)
Depressed people need to know about the medication, psychotherapy, and psychiatric procedures available to them. But they also need to know about the alternative. When you've tried a dozen antidepressants, maybe 20 rounds of ECT, years of psychotherapy, and you're still very depressed, chances that the next intervention will help, even a little, are near zero.
People who have done their due dilligence, tried every medical option available, with no success, deserve to be made aware of an alternative: the world beyond traditional end-of-life options like that in the article. Suicide can be effected safely, without pain or risk of any harm to others, in a setting consistent with human dignity and the momentousness of the journey. Without stigma or judgement, only love, acceptance, and respect for the courageous choice they've made.
(Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Sunday February 03 2019, @08:57PM (1 child)
After all that, no link or explanation?
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Life without religion is like a fish without a bicycle.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 03 2019, @09:16PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2ZaFg40vqY [youtube.com]