Airport Security Seizes Three-Year-Old’s Fart Gun
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TSA: Terror Sorority Alert
Seriously, I'm already way behind on other stuff—could the TSA stop doing stupid $&*# for maybe 48 hours? Is that possible? Today's report (thanks, Erika) is that thousands of passengers were delayed for hours at Hobby Airport in Houston, many…
New TSA Administrator to Explain How Agency Will Fail Differently From Now On
Can he reduce the failure rate below 95.7 percent? Only time will tell.
Town Says It Will Prosecute Official Who Did Something Useful
George Simolaris is a member of the Board of Selectmen (the town council) in Billerica, Massachusetts. According to him, some of the crosswalks around town have become unsafe because the paint has faded, and it's been taking forever to get…
TSA Can Improve Aviation Worker Vetting
You think? The headline of this post is also the slightly understated title of this DHS Inspector General report, which notes that TSA failed to block someone on the terrorist watchlist from getting a job at an airport. And by…
I Should Stress That TSA Detected Well Over Four Percent of The Fake Threats
I don’t want to be too negative.
Court Holds Wedding Ring Is Not a “Weapon”
Although such items can certainly be terrifying, a New Jersey court decided that throwing one at a corrections officer did not constitute “attempted assault with a weapon.”
Of Course We Have No Ticket Quotas, But ….
… you may wish to consider the following information in re: your salary. You won't be surprised to learn that Edmundson is a "city" in St. Louis County, about a ten-minute drive from Ferguson (might take a lot longer, of…
Defendants Settle With Student Arrested for Possessing Arabic Flashcards
I’m trying to keep these posts a little shorter on average, which would mean more posts. So let’s see if I can do that here. As you may recall, although it’s been a while, Nicholas George was detained at the…
TSA Saves Public From Air Pirates!
Not the terrorist kind. The 17th-century kind.