a TSA agent is a fucking fuck.

[steve]

Yesterday, I flew from Long Beach to JFK on a Jetblue flight. I checked three bags.

In one of the bags was the daypack I took up Humphrey's Peak on Thursday. My ipod was in it.

After the hike, I put my pack in the car and drove back to my parent's house. Between the thursday night and my flight on Saturday morning, I was at my parent's house in california. when I arrived late on thursday, i took the pack out of the car and brought it inside. on friday, i packed the daypack in my luggage. I did remove items (trash, etc) from the pack, but I don't remember taking the ipod out of the daypack, or even opening the zipper for the pocket that held the ipod.

Today I was unpacking the bag and I found a slip in there that said the TSA selected it for a thorough screening. Taking the daypack out, I saw that my headphones were still threaded through the it's headphone slot. But - my Ipod was missing.

I am double checking the rest of my luggage, and having my parents in california check their house, but it seems to me that the most likely explanation is some douchenozzle bureaucrat from the TSA has stolen my ipod. And a google search quickly turned up articles like this:

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=266573
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/...in643165.shtml (17,000 complaints of theft against the TSA!!)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp...nguage=printer
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/...35/detail.html


I guess I need to file a complaint, but I'm not sure it'll do anything. This is the government. They don't give a fuck.



-steve

[Benny Profane]

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

[Free Range Lobster]

Many of them accuse federal Transportation Security Administration employees of stealing items out of their checked and carry-on bags at Pittsburgh International Airport.

I have to wonder, how do you have items stolen from a CARRY-ON bag?
They open it up and go through it right in front of you if you're chosen for additional screening.

Honestly, carry on anything of worth that you can.
Even before Thousands Standing Around it was dumb to check anything that could/would be stolen.

Both my flyrods and reels and camera are being CARRIED to Key West with me next week. I don't trust those retards.


And consider yourself lucky.

A navigator I'm friends with had his laptop get "misplaced" by TSA with a few grand worth of nav/tactical software on it. He was already carrying on his personal but it was a nightmare having to source another for the boat and get it and new software to the Carribean in just a couple days.

[steve]

Honestly, carry on anything of worth that you can.
Even before Thousands Standing Around it was dumb to check anything that could/would be stolen.

normally i would carry it on it in my laptop bag.

when leaving my parent's house saturday morning, i did a mental checklist to make sure i was bringing my important stuff. didn't recall what i did with my ipod, so i ran back inside to look for it. as soon as i walked in, i remembered that i never took it out of my daypack, which i did remember packing. i didn't bother digging it out just so i could carry it on.

[Free Range Lobster]

Ouch

Checklists!

[Cliff Huckable]

Admit it, you just hate TSA's freedom.

The freedom to take your stuff for any reason at all.

I like their terminology, though. Maybe I'll go next door and tell the little old lady I'm taking her 56" plasma TV for a "thorough screening" of indefinite length.

[Pow4Brains]

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

[Arty50]

They're beyond retarded. I checked my back well before a recent flight, and not only did it not make my flight, it didn't make the next one. I'm not really sure when it came in. Thankfully Southwest overnighted it to me and I got it the next day...with that stupid little note inside.

Oh and on the way out of Sac, they only had two lanes open on a Friday afternoon. The line was all the way out into the parking lot.

TSA is beyond retarded.

[MeatPuppet]

a TSA agent is a fucking fuck.

Many of them are. Which is why, if it's run by a battery and worth more than $50, it's in my possession when I board my flight. I'm very anal about this, I've heard too many stories like yours.

Karma's a bitch. I hope it bites him in the ass, soon.

[Altaholic]

Why would you have your ipod w/ your checked luggage? I hate to play devil's advocate, but I don't wanna talk to morons on the plane. My computer, external hard drive, and ipod never leave my sight when I fly.

[ill-advised strategy]

awesome!

Way to run the entire fucking federal government completely into the ground Dubya! yeah! drive it like ya stole it cowboy!

[mnflyfish]

Many of them accuse federal Transportation Security Administration employees of stealing items out of their checked and carry-on bags at Pittsburgh International Airport.

I have to wonder, how do you have items stolen from a CARRY-ON bag?
They open it up and go through it right in front of you if you're chosen for additional screening.

Honestly, carry on anything of worth that you can.
Even before Thousands Standing Around it was dumb to check anything that could/would be stolen.

Both my flyrods and reels and camera are being CARRIED to Key West with me next week. I don't trust those retards.


And consider yourself lucky.

A navigator I'm friends with had his laptop get "misplaced" by TSA with a few grand worth of nav/tactical software on it. He was already carrying on his personal but it was a nightmare having to source another for the boat and get it and new software to the Carribean in just a couple days.

BE ready for a fight with the flyrods and reels, especially the line on your reels. I've had a few buddies get the run around, not be allowed to take rods and reels on the plane, etc. I might suggest you go to your favorite fly shop and get rad cases that don't say Sage. Winston, etc rather something cheap so as to keep the future Ebay Sales reps from digging further.

Good Luck,
Jay

[Free Range Lobster]

BE ready for a fight with the flyrods and reels, especially the line on your reels.

Good luck to them, if I have to, I can have them picked up and overnight shipped.

[mushmouth]

I carried-on my rods on my honeymoon with no problem whatsoever. The tube they were in could not have looked more like a shoulder fired missle launcher, but noone even blinked.

[Conundrum]

A friend of a friend had a Brietling taken out of his checked bag with the TSA note left behind. I just said that sucks because I didn't know what a Brietling was until I got home and googled it. It's a $5,000 watch.

I think he was an idiot for checking a $5k watch but that doesn't make the situation right. TSA=total stealing authority

[mushmouth]

Makes you want to check a bag full of monopoly money and a couple dye packs on every trip...

[Free Range Lobster]

I carried-on my rods on my honeymoon with no problem whatsoever. The tube they were in could not have looked more like a shoulder fired missle launcher, but noone even blinked.

I'm guessing since my flight is stupid early it'll be a breeze through.

[mushmouth]

I'm guessing since my flight is stupid early it'll be a breeze through.

Just make sure that camera makes it home safely.

[Free Range Lobster]

Just make sure that camera makes it home safely.

It'll be a split between my camera and C's.
I think the P&S is the way to go though.

[Griz]

On a recent trip I had thrown in a dozen golf balls - still in the large box - in my golf bag within a hard travel case. TSA agent helped himself to one of the sleeves - I guess that makes him generous for leaving the other three...?

I hope he duck-hooked every one of those PRO-V1s into the swamp! MF-er

[rideit]

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

They make $12.50-$20.00 an hour, with full gov. bennies in Jackson Hole.
But, they also have a rep there for being friendly and honest, go figure.

[Free Range Lobster]

They make $12.50-$20.00 an hour, with full gov. bennies in Jackson Hole.
But, they also have a rep there for being friendly and honest, go figure.

Jackson Hole isn't exactly an "international" airport.

They have what? 4 gates? TOTAL?

[rideit]

TSA have the same exact protocol for international or national, FWIW.

The fact is that it is a small town...if a TSA dude acted like a dick, he/she would be called out on it right quick.

[steve]

They make $12.50-$20.00 an hour, with full gov. bennies in Jackson Hole.
But, they also have a rep there for being friendly and honest, go figure.

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# TSA has six airports that utilize private screening services and does not handle claims for incidents that occur at these airports. Claims pertaining to these airports must be filed directly with the company providing screener services at the applicable airport. To find out more about filing a claim for an incident that occurred at one of these private screening airports, please select one of the following links:


* San Francisco, CA
* Kansas City, MO
* Sioux Falls, SD ¹
* Rochester, NY
* Tupelo, MS ²
* Jackson Hole, WY

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[rideit]

JH is the only airport inside of a National Park, I don't know if that has any bearing on how claims are handled.