The TSA has branched out from confiscating water and toothpaste to making sure your c

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At what point does an airport search step over the line?
How about when they start going through your checks, and the police call your husband, suspicious you were clearing out the bank account?
That's the complaint leveled by Kathy Parker, a 43-year-old Elkton, Md., woman, who was flying out of Philadelphia International Airport on Aug. 8.
She says she was heading to Charlotte, N.C., for work that Sunday night - she's a business support manager for a large bank - and was selected for a more in-depth search after she passed through the metal detectors at Gate B around 5:15 p.m.

Read more: Daniel Rubin: An infuriating search at Philadelphia International Airport | Philadelphia Inquirer | 08/18/2010

 

[JeniSkunk]

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Read more: Daniel Rubin: An infuriating search at Philadelphia International Airport | Philadelphia Inquirer | 08/18/2010
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Considering the widening of the remit for the activities of the TSA, their actions as described in this article makes for a very good reason to never visit or transit through LOTFAP or its airspace.

Jenifur Charne

 

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Re: The TSA has branched out from confiscating water and toothpaste to making sure yo

Considering the widening of the remit for the activities of the TSA, their actions as described in this article makes for a very good reason to never visit or transit through LOTFAP or its airspace.

Jenifur Charne

Indeed!

Thread title was too long, was supposed to be "making sure your cheques are in sequential order"

 

[tuapekastar]

Re: The TSA has branched out from confiscating water and toothpaste to making sure yo

Considering the widening of the remit for the activities of the TSA, their actions as described in this article makes for a very good reason to never visit or transit through LOTFAP or its airspace.

Jenifur Charne

They would if it was typical behaviour, but in my first trip to the LOTFAP since 9/11, I took 9 flights to/from/within the country, and the only unusual occurrence with the TSA was a (mysterious but polite) manual search and rescreening of my hand luggage on my departing LAX-AKL flight. All dealings with the TSA were straightforward and civil.

Obviously there are plenty of horror stories out there (none moreso than the OP), but I would imagine the average punter doing the right thing is unlikely to have any problems.

 

[harvyk]

Re: The TSA has branched out from confiscating water and toothpaste to making sure yo

Obviously there are plenty of horror stories out there (none moreso than the OP), but I would imagine the average punter doing the right thing is unlikely to have any problems.

I disagree, due to the paranoia which the TSA has (in some cases, justified, in others OTT) all it would take is for you to be nervous about a flight, or for example a meeting which your attending at your destination, and it can set the TSA into spin.

It's only been recently that the TSA officers have been allowed to use their own judgement, and even then they are still trained with an "everyone is a potential terrorist" attitude.

 

[Maca44]

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Okay, it's time to eat humble pie. For the past 6 years, apart from 94' when I took my kids to Disneyland etc, I have always entered through San Fransicso because of the attitude of the Immigration at LAX. Well, since they have stopped F on QF73 I had to fly into LAX before changing flights to ORD and when I came through LAX last Monday on QF11 the immigration officers could not have been more polite. Maybe it's because I was one of the first to go through and they hadn't generated sufficient anger by that time, but was the more pleasant experiences at LAX.

On another issue. After arriving into Chicago at 6.40pm I had another American Eagle flight at 9.50pm to Detroit. The flight was delayed to 10.20pm and after boarding we then sat at the gate because one of the pax had deplaned and decided that as the flight was delayed that there was no need for him to travel so then the AA ground staff had to locate his red bag in the hold. We were at the gate until 11.15pm as they could not find this supposed red bag. It wasn't until 11.30pm that they brought to pax onto the tarmac and asked him to identify his bag at which time I realised that his bag was in fact black. By the time we got under way it was 1.30am when we arrived in Detroit, just what needed after flying SYD-LAX-ORD-DTW. Not only are they paranoid some are also brain dead.

 

[Will]

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The TSA and LEO behaviour was disgraceful. Their remit is to search for WEI only, with limited administrative search powers only. Without PC, the 4th amendment prohibits the LEOs from perusing the cheques.

 

[NM]

Re: The TSA has branched out from confiscating water and toothpaste to making sure yo

On another issue. After arriving into Chicago at 6.40pm I had another American Eagle flight at 9.50pm to Detroit. The flight was delayed to 10.20pm and after boarding we then sat at the gate because one of the pax had deplaned and decided that as the flight was delayed that there was no need for him to travel so then the AA ground staff had to locate his red bag in the hold. We were at the gate until 11.15pm as they could not find this supposed red bag. It wasn't until 11.30pm that they brought to pax onto the tarmac and asked him to identify his bag at which time I realised that his bag was in fact black. By the time we got under way it was 1.30am when we arrived in Detroit, just what needed after flying SYD-LAX-ORD-DTW. Not only are they paranoid some are also brain dead.

Gee some people are so very considerate. He may have no longed had a need to travel, but his antics impacted a plan load of other people who did have a need to travel :evil:.

 

[Maca44]

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The Captain kept us advised of what was happening, and then after the pax black bag was found and taken off the flight the Captain also commented that this incident has caused him an enormous amount of paper work.

I think the main reason he walked off the plane was that he was seated next to a middle eastern man whose two travelling companions, one a female with the scarf on her head were in front of them. There is a lot of adverse comments over here about Obama wanting to place a Muslim place or worship at the site of 9/11 with the general consensus being that he will never be voted to return to the whitehouse.

 

[Jobu]

Re: The TSA has branched out from confiscating water and toothpaste to making sure yo

Okay, it's time to eat humble pie. For the past 6 years, apart from 94' when I took my kids to Disneyland etc, I have always entered through San Fransicso because of the attitude of the Immigration at LAX. Well, since they have stopped F on QF73 I had to fly into LAX before changing flights to ORD and when I came through LAX last Monday on QF11 the immigration officers could not have been more polite. Maybe it's because I was one of the first to go through and they hadn't generated sufficient anger by that time, but was the more pleasant experiences at LAX.

I had the same recent pleasant experience in LAX, which was different to my previous travel experience and all the stories I had heard.

 

[FlyboyAl]

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In the last 3 years and over 20 trips to the US, almost all into LAX, we have never had an issue or a bad experience with any of the staff - not even TSA!
Sure there have been delays and hold ups for all sorts of reasons, but the staff have been great.