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MrNoBody wrote:
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There is a reason why there is only one letter difference between TSA and NSA.
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...and there is also only one letter difference between TSA and SSA.
Both are big, money wasting repositories of over-paid slackers who don't have a clue.
Nailed it...
GGD wrote:
I suspect that they're giving a lot more "random" access this summer, given the complaints of long TSA lines and firing of the guy in charge because of that.
Bingo,
lowering the level of the theatre of absurd, without admitting they did, when they had no choice but to minimize the "security" levels, as the lines were snaking outside of some terminals....
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.....older men really need to get PSA pre check [ prostate-specific antigen ], if you catch it early, it can save your life.....all it takes is one finger, one time.....
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NewtonMP2100 wrote:
.....all it takes is one finger, one time.....
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NewtonMP2100 wrote:
.....older men really need to get PSA pre check [ prostate-specific antigen ], if you catch it early, it can save your life.....all it takes is one finger, one time.....
Do you need a hand with that ?
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steveroberts wrote:
This weekend, when using tickets for a corporate event in Orlando where my air travel was booked by the corporation's choice of travel agent, something strange happened...
My tickets were marked "TSA Pre Check." Same thing happened on the way home from Orlando.
I was grateful to skip the invasive search and the LONG lines in Orlando, but since I've never applied or paid for Pre Check, I'm curious as to how and why I received this status.
Orlando might well be my least-favorite airport, for that very reason. I used to have to go to Orlando for work several times a year, and the TSA experience there is just horrific. Every time I was stuck in those mosh-pit lines I'd think, "Gee, if only there were only some big organization around here with lots of experience moving people through lines quickly..." and then I'd eye the huge Disney store on the other side of the atrium and just shake my head.
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Several years ago, before the docs were able to get my neuro crud somewhat under control, we were at literally the farthest gate from the terminal entrance/TSA checkpoint, boarding the jumbo jet for Hawaii. Well, since Mrs. Buzz has been a flight attendant since the 1970's, the airlines, then in cahoots w/ TSA, "randomly" flagged a few/several extra "non-revs" (airline employees and/or their family members flying on passes) to be RE-screened, by escorting those randomly selected lucky souls back to the front of the terminal to be processed, usually w/ a bit of extra hoopla, all in an effort to convince the public how safe they (TSA) were keeping the airport.
Turned out there were no available wheelchairs and/or attendants available, and there was no way for me to get back to the front of the terminal w/o such assistance, so they had to arrange for the TSA mobile checking gear to be brought all the way to the farthest gate to re-check me right next to the boarding area. Needless to say, this needlessly delayed the flight for everybody. As most of you know, the airlines do what they can to keep as many flights on schedule as they possibly can. My "random" selection caused a needless ding to the airline's on-time rating, and pissed off a few hundred passengers and crew. Thankfully, after that incident, the gate agents got w/ management, and w/in a couple of weeks, the "random" non-rev selection policy was modified. The policy was originally orchestrated so as not to piss off real passengers at the airline's expense, essentially by using non-revs as shills to help enforce the TSA's show of presence.
Getting your tickets/boarding pass stamped "TSA Pre-Check" is soooo much better.
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I fly several times a year and paid the $85 for five years of TSA Pre-check. Well worth it to avoid the delay on the regular lines. Unfortunatley, my last long-haul flight was on Iceland Air, which does not participate in TSA-Pre. However, I had business class, which had it's own check-in AND security line. Almost as good as Pre-check.
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random TSA pre-check on your ticket is to introduce the service to flyers who don't have the TSA Pre-Check cards and have done the back ground checks.
It is a way to get you to sign up after seeing how simple security can be. Call it "marketing" by giving you a free sample. It is that simple.
And the face to face interview is so that if at some time in the future, someone with evil intent gets caught, jail time is a slam dunk. Lying to federal law enforcement is a 5 year sentence. They record the interview, and that is their evidence. Mobsters do jail time for tax evasion, not the murders. Proving a terrorist activity can be tough, but you WILL get 5 years for lying. That's about a 5 minute court session in my book.
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Shame lying to the Feds doesn't automatically get everyone and everyone an automatic 5 years.
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Flew with my dad and a friend of his last year. Dad scores the pre-check lottery. So he skips the line but still has a basic security scan, looks around like "hey, what's taking you guys so long?"
What's the rest that we endure all about? That shoe thing and laptop crap seems blown out of proportion to risk.
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