>>>>>Glad to see them take a more reasonable approach, truely silly (and stupid) how we handle security. Almost as bad as the ticketing agent asking if you packed your own bag...
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>>>>>Bob
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>>>>>>http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSKUA25254620070712?feedType=RSS
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>>>>Here's the one that really cracked me up:
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>>>>A person who announces "You better look through my suitcase carefully, because there's a bomb in there", "I am going to set fire to this airplane with this blowtorch" or "The man in seat 32F has a machine gun" will still be arrested.
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>>>>So, if the guy in seat 32F has a machine gun, you'd best keep it to yourself.
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>>>>This is such rot. If I'm talking golf with somebody and I say, "I'm trying to shoot under 80", I'm going to get a warning? A 'yellow card', so to speak? So the next time, when I say, "Oh, shoot, I forgot my reading glasses" I'm going to get my second 'yellow card' and be thrown out? Imagine trusting our security to these people.
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>>>TSA has an office in the building where I work and uniformed TSA employees are in here regularly for training classes. They are not an inspiring sight. Lots of them take the bus to the office.
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>>What's wrong with their taking a bus to the office?
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>Wrong would be too strong a word. It's just that in the U.S., in the suburbs, taking the bus conveys the message that you haven't achieved much financial success. Some of these are young people starting out, of course, and circumstances will probably change for them, but for now they are likely to be financial peons. You don't see real cops riding suburban buses to and from work, that's for sure.
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>It's different in the city. Lots of professionals take buses or the L downtown. Out here in the burbs it's a different story.

Strange. That all smacks of snobbery. To think you HAVE to be a consumer to be respected. People spit on the pavement if they walk to the store to get their newspaper? I'd say it's commnedable that they're reducing their C-footprint, preserving earth's resources and all that. Maybe "green" thinking is commensurate WITH their young age.