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Originally Posted by HuskyMan
(Post 3172831)
All of this 'discussion' brings to memory a story a friend who is involved in the airline business shared a few years post 9/11. Though not the exact set of circumstances as the present discussion, I think it is pertinent.
Seems a Captain for a major airline was being detained by a wet-behind-the-ears Generation X twenty something TSA gate agent assigned to check his luggage for 'contraband'. After an exhausting long and agonizing search, the twenty something TSA agent seized some 'dangerous' finger nail clippers. The Flight Captain then lets go with the following:
"Son, if I wanted to cause some real destruction, I'd wait until we were in the air and grab the fire axe in the cockpit and tear the hell out the controls and crash the plane myself. Right this minute, I'm supposed to be on board the aircraft running through pre-flight procedures. Your detainment of me is negatively impacting the SAFETY of my aircraft, my crew and the passengers. NOW GIVE ME BACK MY GD LUGGAGE BECAUSE I AM BOARDING THE PLANE RIGHT NOW!! SEE 'YA!!!!"
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And yet the captain of the plane was subjected to the same screening as everyone else. Why should this wounded soldier not have to go through screening if the pilot himself is subjected the the same thing?
Of course its annoying, thats not in question. You seem to want a completely subjective screening process though. If you are loud enough, wearing something specific, abusive enough, ect, you get to pass through without screening.
Once you open the door of subjective screening, maybe we should let woman and infants through without screening, maybe people wearing leather shoes on tuesday, maybe on fridays anyone wearing a blue hat gets through without screening. |
