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Fuck TSA (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have never had so much trouble with TSA (american airport security) until today. My crotch got flagged by their scanners and I had to get a physical patdown (surprise, there was nothing bad). Then I forgot to empty my water bottle so I had to go through it all AGAIN and my crotch was once again flagged and I had to get a physical patdown AGAIN (surprise, nothing bad yet again).

Then my other bag gets flagged after going through the thing again despite my not adding anything to it. The TSA guy opens up my bag and I'm assuming saw my packer which I kept in there to put it back in after I went through security. He then giggles and calls multiple of his coworkers over to look at it. Luckily he didn't take it out. This whole damn time I'm right there. Ugh. Considering getting a lumpy cloth packer just to avoid this ever happening again.

I'm assuming that my crotch kept getting flagged because trans? I've never had this happen to me before.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

TSA is a job program for people that can't handle other normal jobs. It's for the people who couldn't even make it into the police academy, just like how the police is for people who couldn't make it in the military. I've worked at airports for over 4 years and TSA are truly bottom of the barrel. I have brought weed with me on every flight for the past 5 years and they haven't found it once. It's all theatre to make the customers feel safe. But then the undertrained employees use their undeserved power to make "others" feel unsafe. I'm a white dude so I don't get the worst of it but probably because I have long hair, a beard, and wear baggy clothes I get pulled off to the side usually 1/3 of the times I go through security.