Eh TSA agents in Kahului: thanks for teaming up with the state and the county to make me miss my flight to Oahu. Really, good job! Well done! I, a disabled veteran, had to stand outside of the line at your lowly I.D. checkpoint for 20 minutes, because you couldn’t figure out what to do. See, my drivers license expired on my birthday. I got a new license, but they issued me a … [Read more...] about Eh Kahului TSA Agents!
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TSA Confiscates Throwdowns Lead Singer Erin Smith’s Plastic iPhone Case Before Inter-Island Flight
Remember all those news stories a few weeks back about how the Transportation Security Agency (TSA) was going to once again allow airline fliers to carry small pocketknives, golf clubs, pool cues and wiffle bats in their carry-on luggage? Well, turns out pink, plastic iPhone cases that look like brass knuckles aren't on that list. Erin Smith, the Canadian-born, former Maui … [Read more...] about TSA Confiscates Throwdowns Lead Singer Erin Smith’s Plastic iPhone Case Before Inter-Island Flight
Great TSA Finds and Redneck Chronicles and Tax Dodging Tax Collectors
ONE FOR THE ROAD The Kerry, Ireland, county council voted in January to let some people drive drunk. The councillors reasoned that in the county’s isolated regions, some seniors live alone and need the camaraderie of the pub, but fear a DUI arrest on the way home. The councillors thus empowered police to issue DUI permits to those targeted drivers. Besides, reasoned the … [Read more...] about Great TSA Finds and Redneck Chronicles and Tax Dodging Tax Collectors
Saved By The TSA
I bitch about TSA every time, but I gotta thank you, the Maui Airport security guy who recently had the “pleasure” of X-raying my man purse. As I was clearing the security checkpoint with my five-month old daughter strapped to my chest and my fiance waiting for me ahead, I noticed you laugh at the screen, re-xray my bag, then summon three other co-workers. You all laughed and … [Read more...] about Saved By The TSA
Transportation Insecurity: How Invasive Scans, Incompetence, Theft And Racial Profiling Make It Time To Detain The TSA In Hawaii
By Jacob Shafer On March 11, 2011, less than 24 hours after a tsunami devastated northeastern Japan, a Japanese tourist wearing a Hello Kitty backpack approached the security checkpoint at Kona International Airport. A TSA screener named Dawn Nikole Keka inspected the backpack, just as she had inspected countless others. Moments later, the tourist discovered that two $100 … [Read more...] about Transportation Insecurity: How Invasive Scans, Incompetence, Theft And Racial Profiling Make It Time To Detain The TSA In Hawaii