a TSA agent is a fucking fuck.

[Wiilbert]

Someday a person much greater than me is going to stab one of those TSA assholes in the neck with a bic pen, just to prove a point. I'm going to laugh my ass off when it happens too

[Blurred]

Dude, they make, like, 8 bucks an hour. This isn't the finest of America searching your bags.

Pretty ironic statement coming from the biggest liberal on this board.

[Blurred]

It's easy to solve the hijacking problem: secure cockpits. Door is hardened. No one gets in or out between takeoff and landing. Food and drinks are loaded in before takeoff and they have their own shitter. But the government isn't interested in really solving the problem, because that would leave them without excuses to increase their control over us by surveilling our movements and getting us used to random invasive searches.

I'm not with the paranoid big brother bullshit, but agree 100% with the sealing of the cockpit. After 9-11, nobody will be able to hijack a plane with a boxcutter without getting their ass gang raped anyhow.

[RootSkier]

Pretty ironic statement coming from the biggest liberal on this board.

You spit out that word just exactly like Bill O'Reilly. He must be proud.

[Blurred]

You spit out that word just exactly like Bill O'Reilly. He must be proud.

Does socialist have a better ring to it for you? I know touchy feely liberals like you cringe at getting called what you are. Grow a sack, Jesse.

[steve]

so the TSA decided to pay me half of my claim. i posted the letter last night without comment. now that i've slept, i have mixed feeling about this..

i'm happy i got anything at all.. because the TSA could have said "fuck you", given me nothing, and there would have been nothing I could have done about it.

on the other hand, i am literally the victim of a crime and the organization responsible compensated me only half of what my losses were - so even though they paid me $130, I'm still out another $130. What am I going to do, buy half an ipod?

I also kind of resent them for saying that just because the airline *might* have had something to do with it, and by *might* i mean probably a 0.0001% probability of having something to do with it. But since Jetblue *might* be responsible, then the TSA is only going to pay me for half my ipod - implying that the airline is responsible for the other half. if i want to get the other half, i'd have to get it from them. this sucks because my personal moral code prohibits me from claiming money from someone who didn't do anything wrong, even if that someone is a billion-dollar corporation.

but back to my first point, what we're dealing with here is an oppressive government agency as unconstitutionally been given powers beyond what it should have in the name of public safety, and therefore is literally above the law in such matters. they gave me something. holy fucking shit. i should sit down and shut up.

[taz]

Fuck you lucky you got money from them, when they decided to relieve me of, binding hardware, gloves and leatherman. I didn't get a thing as I was back home in Oz. I second their lack of packing skills also as the dumb fuck that tried to put my stuff back in my boardcase after shopping had screws under my board. screws that where in a zip lock bag in the mesh pocket of my case. my stoke to be back in winter was short lived. the ones at SFO have the same level of trust. I just hope the fucker that took my stuff, either cut him or herself badly or just ate shit and ended up in hospital after their trip to the snow. mostly i hope it was the second outcome

[Bandogge]

Yeah, one of those fuckers ganked my $125 Kershaw knife in my checked luggage. Had the same happy note too.

I got a Hinderer custom taken the same way flying from Quebec to Vancover last year... Roughly 600.00 US down the drain.

Folding kinves for whatever reason, are a favorite target.

I now use a very thin cable meant for bike locks threaded through the lanyard holes and fastened to an inside buckle on my luggage... Have flown a couple of times since then with various Spyderco, Kershaw and Strider knives.

As long as you lock your luggage within itself, you're ok... lol

[rugbydave]

On the way back from a 2 week bender in Tampa 2 Xmasses ago, I was hungover as shit/still drunk so they decided to search my shit. I had 1/2 a bag of strawberry(read pink) protein powder in my carryon. Buddy the douchebag who searched my bag managed, in the course of his 'inspection' to spill 1/2 of it in my carryon bag. The result, a sticky, stinky pink film on all my shit, wow, thanks for keeping me safe assholes...

[steve]

ok, I have to eat a little crow here. i'm more than a little embarrassed right now.


my parents, who claimed to look for my ipod when I lost it, in both the car and the house, found it yesterday. in the car. in a small compartment underneath the stereo. which is a pretty obvious place for an ipod, but they didn't look there at the time.

I must have taken it out of my daypack at some point on the 5-hour drive back from flagstaff.

If the TSA ever pays me (they approved the claim several months ago but I'm still waiting for the check), then they're getting their money back.

[iceman]

Mighty white of you.

[MrZach]

my parents, who claimed to look for my ipod when I lost it, in both the car and the house, found it yesterday

It was probably hidden underneath your lost pair of embroidered "Wednesday" tighty whities.


At least you came clean, tho
(well, accept for the Weds. you were out of town)

[steve]

Mighty white of you.

about as white as an italian from brooklyn.

(ok fine i'm from queens. but i wish i was from brooklyn.)

[concretejungle]

Screw that keep the cash and consider it a payment for the rest of us that have had stuff jacked by TSA.

[vagabond]

July 19, 2007

Transportation Security Administration
Claims Management Office
US Department of Homeland Security
Arlington, VA 22202

Steven Tursi
#2P
35 Park Ave
Suffern NY 10901

Re: TSA Control No.: xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Dear Claimant:

We have reviewed your claim for lost or damaged property. Based on this review, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) offers to resolve your claim by paying you $130.04. The resolution amount is one half of the amount you claimed (less any depreciation) because TSA concluded, based on the facts of your claim, that it was not possible to determine whether TSA or the airline was responsible for your loss. We are offering this as our share of responsibility.

You may accept our offer as our final administrative action on your claim. To do so, please check off the first box located on the enclosed attachment, indicating that you accept the resolution amount,. This will also waive your right to seek any additional payment on your claim from the TSA and its employees or any other part of the United States Government. If we do not hear from you within 90 days, we will presume that you have rejected our offer and treat your claim as denied. To receive payment or reject this offer, please fill out the attached form and return it to the TSA via mail or FAX.

You can check the status of your claim online at www.tsa.gov. Should you have any questions, please address them to the TSA Contact Center.

Yours sincerely,

Nicholas A. Panuzio
Director, Claims Management Office
Transportation Security Administration

Looks like I'm going to have to turn you in for fraud, and believe me, I will. Wonder if there is any reward other then knowing I put a hardcore tax dollar stealing con artist away.

[AdironRider]

I think its all karma for your constaint complaint filled posts.

[hutash]

It's god's way of punishing you for your un-christian attitude towards the TSA.

Now you need to go down to the airport and wash someone's feet.

[steve]

Screw that keep the cash and consider it a payment for the rest of us that have had stuff jacked by TSA.

what cash? it never arrived.

Looks like I'm going to have to turn you in for fraud, and believe me, I will. Wonder if there is any reward other then knowing I put a hardcore tax dollar stealing con artist away.

i hope you do report me. maybe i'll find out what happened with the payment that i would return if i ever got it.

I think its all karma for your constaint complaint filled posts.

great, a k-zone alias.

It's god's way of punishing you for your un-christian attitude towards the TSA.

punishment? i have my ipod back. it could be a lot worse.

Now you need to go down to the airport and wash someone's feet.

yeah baby.

[Humpty Dumpty]

oh, you mean like how i said i normally do that but this was an oversight, realized after i finished packing and on the way to the airport? you mean that i should have stood there in front of the skycap for 5 minutes digging to the depths of a 55-lb tightly packed bag just so i could take an ipod out of my daypack? all of this while making sure the 3-year old i was with doesn't run into traffic?

you know, you really ought to READ before shooting off your mouth.

Hey assmunch, I mean Steve, you are a fvcking idiot. As you describe above, your ipod was snug inside a daypack, fully entrenched within the bowels of a 55 pound tightly packed bag that would have taking you five minutes to dig out. Are you saying the TSA agent spent that kinda time going through your luggage with that kinda precision to eventually swipe your ipod. I don't think so.

I already know the conclusion of this story. I just wanted to point out that you are a constantly complaining idiot. We all know it's the world against Steve.

The Humpster, on loan from KZone, out.

[vagabond]

great, a k-zone alias.

Paranoia will destroy you.

And wow, you should be honored, and appearance by Humpty

[AdironRider]

See Steve, as Vagabond highlights, the humpster is an alias while Im just an east coast transplant that knows your one of those people who cant go a few minutes without bitching about something.

[iceman]

See steve, the humpster is an alias, Im just an east coast transplant that knows your one of those people who cant go a few minutes without bitching about something.

You have an excellent post count, though, perhaps you should quit now.

"420 and OUT!"

could be your motto.

of course we'd never see it, but it's the thought that counts.

[vagabond]

You have an excellent post count, though, perhaps you should quit now.

"420 and OUT!"

could be your motto.

of course we'd never see it, but it's the thought that counts.

Or, he could delete old posts as he adds new ones, keeping the count at 420. Great observation!

[iceman]

He already blew it in some other thread.

Oh well.

[AdironRider]

Bummer, I actually didnt notice. But I smoked a bowl recently, so I guess I half redeem myself.