We’ve all heard the term “hiding in plain sight.” Turns out there’s no need to go to that much trouble when the TSA’s gropers and x-ray voyeurs are on the job.
ABC News explains why:
A foreign national who flew from New York to Los Angeles last week with a stolen boarding pass and ID card has been arrested at Los Angeles International Airport, according to federal authorities.
Olajide Oluwaseun Noibi, a Nigerian-born man who was found with the stolen ID and up to 10 old boarding passes containing various names, was arrested Wednesday after attempting to board a flight from Los Angeles to Atlanta; five days after passing through layers of airport security at New York’s JFK airport to board a plane with a day-old boarding pass.
Noibi managed to get through every layer of security with a fake ID and numerous boarding passes, at least one of which came from another passenger’s pocket, ABC News has learned.
TSA would’ve spotted the guy if he were disguised as a 3 year old girl or a 95-year-old woman in a wheelchair, but this leads us to suspect the surest way for a man-caused disaster maker to avoid detection would be to disguise himself as a man-caused disaster maker.
No harm, no foul. The system still works, correct?
Of course, Noibi may really be a scout, scoping out the weak spots for the guys with the bombs. Time will tell.
But if any toddlers or handicapped women try to pull anything, TSA will be waiting for them.
– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities
Source: ABC News
This post was last modified on July 1, 2011
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I bet i can guess what security measures come next. ID check when you hand your boarding pass to the gate agent right before you get on the plane. Even though this guy got past TSA's check point, they'll load most of the blame on the airline for letting him on the plane with an old boarding pass. How he got to the gate will be downplayed and the blame will be focused on the airlines. Now it will take 3-4 agents to board a flight instead of 1-2. No worries the cost will passed to the airline employees in the form of pay cuts. Just like after 9/11.
The more we see this crap the more calloused and inured we become to it, that's exactly what the peeps in charge want us to do. We should start an e-mail campaign and shut down the TSA server, crash the whole damned system with revenge mail for their sorry existence. We need to start whacking these asswipes in the head and throat; not necessarily fatal, but painful all the same! Maybe they'll wake up and smell the coffee....and then again, maybe not! Either way, we got to press home the message that there are more of us than there are of them and the sooner the better...I'm a big believer in preemptive strikes!
That guy in the picture seems a bit too eager to use those two fingers...
Where's Barney Frank at what could a personal moment of glory ?
Another true story. A co-worker had his wife drop him off at u ramp to go to work. He has to go through TSA with his lunch box. The TSA dorks have a badged, uniformed airline employee in front of them and they want to confiscate his fork! He politely asks how he can eat his spaghetti dinner without th fork. The screener says that it is a dangerous weapon. My friend replies that he has a box cutter in his tool box downstairs as part of his required tooling. RED FLAG, he gets detained and sent to airport jail. A supervisor had to go get him.
...so, let me get this straight.
You work for the Three Stooges.
Do I win a prize for guessing right?
TSA stands for Three Stooges Airlines? Wait, I'm confused, aren't I?
Not at all. Nyuk, nyuk nyuk.
Want more TSA lunacy? They have screeners that walk the ramp without visible ID badges. If I fail to ask them for an ID badge, I get fined. If I do challenge them they send me a suitable for framing certificate for outstanding security awareness. Also comes with a 5 dollar gift card to be used in the airport food court. The gal that does it at my airport looks like Ann Coulter. Look at the ramp next time you're waiting to get on a plane. Picture Ann Coulter walking across the ramp in f**k me pumps and a flowery dress. Pretty sneaky aren't they?
I'm picturing; I'm picturing!!
I'm picturing as fast as I can, I am.
Mmmmm, Ann Coulter in pumps and a flowery dress.
They won't mention that on the news. Remember islam isn't the problem, terrorists are.
Correct. We must all remember that dissociation. Just because the owners manual directly orders that the jihad never cease until the global caliphate is in place doesn't mean all muslims are terrorists, but since all terrorists are mussies you'd think we could see past the ruse.
Has anyone heard mention that this guy was a Muslim?
That might create a profile that could cause problems. TSA must concentrate on White Christians only, preferably 6 year old girls and 95 year women with Cancer.
He's a Muslim. Bet on it. If he wasn't, it would be all over the news.
I know TSA stooges that were aircraft cleaners pre 9/11. Qualifications? They were already cleared to work at the airport. Dirty secret? Ever see people pulled to the extra security measures line? TSA computers flag airline employees to go through that. Why? We won't complain lest we jeopardize our security clearances and pass travel benefits! Feel safer? Don't. I access the airport every day from the street without going through any security. Thousands of us do every day. A little cash to the right person could get weapons delivered to "sensitive" areas. I'll probably get a visit from the guys in blue suits now....
Anybody for an El-Al type system? What do you think, Olivia?
I've been saying that for almost 1o years. If you have ever flown with them, you are treated in a professional manner, but you are checked out upside down and side ways. Also their pilots are armed and they know how to use their weapons in close confining spaces.
I've heard we cant do it that way the airline industry in the US is too big and there are too many airports. What a quick and easy setup. I point out that the TSA is at every airport and how well is that working out for us. Profile baby Profile.
Thank you ACLU. When they come for you who will protect you.
This is what happens when the TSA dudes get overexcited about doing the patdown and don't think about anything but checking the guy's 'junk' out.