@@orhanefeunal1811most of those protests aren’t over things like useless agencies. TSA, FDA, IRS, and so on are all bloated, inefficient, corrupt, and useless
I once got told by one of these dudes that it wasn't okay to have shampoo. Cool. Asked the dude if I could throw away some shaving razors I had in the trash. His response was "No you can keep those." ....for a carry on bag...
Same thing with my water, "it didnt come from this side so throw it away, you can buy a new thing of water over there" its a complete scam!!@@spiffygonzales5160
Dealing with the TSA is the main reason why I avoid flying altogether. The second reason being how awful airlines service has become. I refuse to pay hundreds of dollars to get violated and treated like dirt in order to save time on a trip.
Yeah, that's why I'm thankful for the small airport in my city. It may cost more to fly from it, but the time driving and waiting in line is SO MUCH shorter. It only takes maybe 10ish minutes to get through security, and that's WITH a line
unfortunately, not "literally nobody". Think about how many people are vaxers and maskers. You think those folks are capable of thinking deeply enough to see the TSA is a scam?
So 2012-2013 i helped my brother move to florida and was set to fly back to NY. I was 19-20 road weary and looked disheveled at best and homeless at worst. Got theough security just fine but when I got to the gate and was standing in line to board there was a TSA agent next to the ticketer who literally just stared at me for the entire time. By the time it was my turn to board I plopped my backpack on the counter, produced my ticket and asked if I could help them. He said he wanted to go through the backpack one more time, i said okay, he found a cookie and an apple that I "smuggled" but completely ignored the actual pocket knife that even I forgot I brought and didnt realize until after i made it home. But man, those cookies, they could've been dangerous.
You’re allowed to bring food through as long as it isn’t liquid. I’ve brought salads through just fine as long as the dressing is a small enough container. I used to bring grapes but often bring snacks in general.
@@settame1 fruits and veggies are absolutely not allowed on any flights in or out of country, as they can easily conceal insects or diseases that could be catastrophic if introduced to an ecosystem that's never met them before Also, I got flagged for a tub of Chocolat frosting
The TSA agent just wanted some snackies. He was having an absolutely terrible day and was hoping those cookies were CDB laced.. Fuck the knife though, no one really cares for that.
You can *fire* private security if they don't do their job. You can not fire a government employee without spending 100's of 1000's of dollars. It brings new meaning to the old phrase, "It's cheaper to keep 'er."
In our town of 350,000 people, the local airport changed from having big warning signs at the base of the stairs and escalators designating everything beyond as the secure area (what you'd do if you wanted to prevent people from bringing weapons into the secure area) to putting the little inconspicuous gun buster signs on the outer doors designating the entire terminal as a secure area. This is Kentucky and everyone is carrying concealed and we're accustomed to ignoring those gun buster signs at the mall, bank, and other businesses where they have no legal authority. They have a great legal significance at the airport. Putting the commonly ignored gun buster signs on the outer doors is what you'd do if you wanted to catch hectic travelers who pose no actual security threat to bump up your guns-seized-at-airport statistics to justify your worthless tax wasting existence. They caught my friend Ray with this scam. He realized he had his 24/7 carry revolver as soon as he saw the security procedure but by then it's too late. If you try to leave, they'll grab you for suspiciously avoiding the security screening. Poor Ray confessed his mistake to the TSA agent who balled him out, knowing that Ray is a decent law abiding citizen who isn't an actual threat. The TSA goon then summoned the local cop who escorted Ray out of the building. Ray gave the pistol to his wife and went through the security process to board his flight, but he was given a lot of extra attention, even though they knew he wasn't a threat. It was punishment. Two weeks later, Ray received a letter from the TSA, telling him that he owes a $2,200 fine and now he's on the TSA SSSS. It's the Secondary Security Screening Selection - the lite version of the No-Fly list. From now on, law abiding Ray will be given an extra helping of irradiation and sexual assault at the hands of the TSA, which does nothing to improve airline security. It's the government punishing armed Americans, because governments always hate armed serfs.
@@Shadowtiger2564 - Thank you, Captain Obvious. I'm guessing you don't carry a concealed firearm every day? Never been in a hurry rushing to the airport?
@Shadowtiger2564 I disagree. The airport shouldn't have the authority to fine people for a constitutionally protected act. However, if they are going to, they should at the very least not punish people for doing the right thing.
Used to work at an airport as a cabin cleaner (the janitors that clean the plane between flights) and it wasn't TSA checking the planes, we were. It was standard procedure for us to check under and behind all the seats for contraband as we were cleaning despite having no training in how recognize such things or to handle them if we actually found any, and then let TSA know about it. They didn't check anything unless we found it and happened to know it wasn't just garbage to be thrown away. I know more than a few people who had to get tested for diseases after accidentally stabbing themselves with used syringes while cleaning behind seats. What's even scarier is that all the stuff we did find had to get passed TSA at a different airport to get on those planes, so I know they aren't effective.
Syringes are actually allowed by TSA. I had to take some injectable medication on a plane once and they didn’t even need me to declare it, they just scanned it on through. Same with packaged injectable medication.
@@settame1 i get the impression a lot of those were a different kind of drug. Hell, once I found an electric hotplate, a frying pan and several empty pill bottles all piled up in a bathroom sink on a plane. I can't be the only person who'd look at those items and think there were certain implications.
Yup i'm one, though i got a taste of no TSA. I flew passenger with a buddy who was working on his flight hours to commercial pilot and as it turns out if you are a pilot or passenger on a private flight they just send you through a back gate straight to the hangars with 0 checks. You fuel the plane, check the flight plan, and talk to the tower before hopping into the runway queue and taking off. Never even saw a TSA agent.
Hot take. How about TSA checking out people who actually match the profile for someone that has the possible motivation to do something, instead of shaking down the 80 year old White grandma who can barely move at the speed of slow.
i've seen 3 guys all go through security with the same razors received as groomsman gifts. They stopped 1 guy and made him open the box and toss the blade. The other 2 walked right through. These people are useless
A friend of mine got through with a knife on his belt. It wasn’t big, just a small ish pocket knife but it was clearly visible. He completely forgot it was there.
My sister has gotten a full tube of toothpaste though. Didn’t even try to hide it. The TSA agent picked it up looked at my sister and said “I don’t blame you” and gave it back. Hahaha
@@ninjagirl226I brought a bottle of shampoo once not having read the regulations and the agent was the most sanctimonious soul sister ever. She asked me what I wanted to do with it, and I asked "What can I do other than throw it away?" And she shook her head condescendingly. Okay lady, if you don't want me to waste the shampoo, you don't have to throw it away.
My disabled father can’t fly because all his internal hardware ensures he gets an hour of playing “humiliate the cripple” any time he thinks of flying. Recently he missed the chance to attend my godfathers funeral because TSA’s special attention caused him to miss his flight.
The worst part about that is that you can get a card from a doctor explaining that you have metal hardware, but the TSA is still going to do a thorough exam.
They do love picking on the handicapped. They took my cane away and got mad because I touched the side walking through the machine. Yeah sorry, I lost my balance WITHOUT MY CANE! A friend had a few hundred dollars worth of prescriptions stolen. Just got bounced back & forth. Airport told her it was a TSA issue, TSA told her it was an airport issue. Fortunately it happened when she was coming home so she could get refills. Though the “they were stolen” was an issue with her insurance.
A guy with a colostomy bag was tackled from behind because he was "hiding a bag". When the bag exploded they were going to charge him with bringing hazardous materials - ignoring the fact he needed to get to the hospital to put his stoma back together at the moment.
Well, you should always factor in the extra minutes or hours that any country's security theatre will add to your trip, especially if you're expecting it by being a prime candidate for an enhanced inspection.
Many years ago I had my nail clippers "confiscated" by the TSA. Why? Because it was "A deadly weapon." I quipped that if someone can take down an plane with nail clippers, they didn't need them at all. I was then promptly detained, questioned, and missed my flight. Now every time I fly I also get "randomly bag checked", weird, huh?
Had an unopened bottle of water in my bag, i was in a rush since i had only 45 minutes to get to my terminal. The TSA worker stopped me for an ungodly amount of time waiting for another worker to come over so they could "dispose" of it as if it was hazmat, wearing rubber gloves and everything. Dude looked like he was straight out of highschool and im like "Dude. I'll chug the entire bottle of water RIGHT now just to get out of this, im even slightly thirsty just let. Me. Go." Needless to say i wasted a hood 20 minutes sitting there as he opens it, dumps all of the water out, then disposes of the bottle in a hazmat bin... Was absolutely furious because it not only wasted my time and money, but also wasted precious water that would've been for me to drink. Sped through the terminal with just enough time to get on the plane.... I've realized long ago the TSA wouldn't actually be able to stop actual terrorists from getting on the plane and mostly just a hindrance to actual people... Remember one time they broke a lock on my bag (held everything together) because of.. shoes... My steel toe work boots to be specifically (i can only assume anyway.), as they were on the luggage section (doesn't go through scan). When the bag came out on the caracell thing at the pickup, my clothes were just scattered there. No idea to this day if they stole anything, but i can only assume they did, as a few things were just missing from it. Could've happened on the plane ride there, or them throwing it on the conveyor, or on the way out. Tried to file a complaint but they were just like "We had to open it because we thought we found something suspicious..." God i hate TSA
Honestly, besides 9/11 I can only remember like one attempted terrorist plane hijacking incident, and the culprit was a depressed suicidal pilot so the TSA wouldn't have stopped it anyway. It's like if a meteor hit Manhattan one day and from now on everyone in every nation was forced to wear anti-meteor suits of armor 24/7 despite decades of no meteors.
@@Heavenlyhounds96 Only if there is some kind of due process to put someone on that list, and a method of getting off of it. Watchlists are just an end run around the rule of law.
The shoe thing has legitimate precedent -- a man did hide explosives in his shoes, and another man hid explosives in his underwear -- but TSA fails at doing the things they're supposed to do so badly that their existence should be questioned vigorously. The underwear guy actually got on the plane but, as with most amateur bombers, his explosives failed to detonate and instead literally set his pants on fire
My mom loves the TSA because she gets to spend 20 minutes talking in circles about her family to an agent in the process of explaining that she has more titanium than bone in her legs. If she's lucky then she'll miss her flight and she gets to tell everyone for the next 30 years about how the TSA always detains her and causes her to miss flights because of her knees.
@@NarwahlGaming can confirm. I once put my phone on mute for 2 full hours while she talked. She cried 5 different times and seamlessly changed topics without so much as an "uh-huh" from me.
In June 2023 wife an I took our first flight for personal reasons since 2010. On our return home flight we got in a line with about an hour till scheduled departure. The 'estimate' when we joined the line was 20 minutes but pretty much the moment we got in line it stopped moving - almost as though they shut a lane down. There was absolutely no sense of urgency with the TSA as the line we were in grew longer and longer. Moved at the same 'my job security does not depend on my job performance speed' you expect. We only managed to make our flight because of the kindness of a dozen other travelers to allow us to go ahead of them.
Usually if you alert an agent they’ll let you jump to the front of the line or swing you over to the pre check. Remember your departure time is always about 30 min behind boarding so you do want to get there with more than a 10 min buffer.
@@settame1 When I finally got to the guy who was letting people enter the last step queue I told him about our situation and he said the line is the line and if you have to ask people. There's no excuse for it taking 1+ hour on a day with nominal volume. No mass flight cancellations or no funky weather that could cause a sudden and unexpected shift in volume. Just an average ordinary summer day.
@@dorvinion What airport was it? Some airports are well known for having horrid security and will shut lines down at random. While others (like MSP) are much more capable.
@@Tank50us SeaTac, Sunday early afternoon. For comparison, a week earlier we had flown out of STL Lambert (allegedly STL has the 2nd worst average TSA delay record) on a Saturday afternoon. We pretty much waltzed through in about 5 minutes.
You would think that the first step in preventing dangerous people from getting through airport security, would be to ensure that you don’t hire dangerous people to conduct airport security. The government isn’t bad at everything they do, the government just does everything bad.
When I was younger I worked for Delta Airlines, I was a ramp agent at CVG. Sometimes I would go to IND or DTW and work for a few weeks/months to fill in. Back in 2010, I was working in IND when the TSA's budget was coming up for a renewal and the word around the airport was they were going to get budget cuts. Suddenly they had to add a new IN-HOUSE check point and crack down on US employees, they ran dozens of "drills" and basically made a big show of how IMPORTANT they were just to keep the higher budget. All they did was add more annoyance to the airline workers making our jobs even more stressful.
i remember John Stossel doing a video on this subject, a private company replaced TSA in a PA airport, it was not only cheaper to finance for the airport, but employee morale for the company was better, room for promotion, and of course, IT WAS MORE EFFICIENT ALTOGETHER! The TSA is a perfect example of Reagan's greatest quote, "I'm from the Government and I'm here to help", because the government ruins everything. Sheamus if you're reading this, check out the Fat Electrician's video on our Mail carrier vehicles, it's another great example on what happens when the government does anything.
I remember when Adam Conover did this exact same thing way back on Adam Ruins Everything. Was stunned to realize how much of a waste of time most of this is.
@@nightwingaven69 Ah, but this was back during the early era of the show when he wasn't an insanely left leaning stooge who constantly attacked America.
With the exception of what you just said here, no matter when the show was, I can't think of a single time I have seen him be right about anything. It has nothing to do with left or right, he's just not intelligent at all@@thefanwithoutaface8105
Mythbuster did a episode on boarding lines and found that current methods of filling seats is also super time wasting Though it wasn't a study it still points to a larger idea.
That's why I fly business class. no boarding issues at all. First one on, seats right there with no line, first one off, drinking for free at lounges and during the flight make all the pain go away@@r.connor9280
My eye-opening moment was when a guy in front of me at the airport was acting just sketchy enough that I was thinking "should... should I say something? this guy is weird" and then he gets let through with his bag, immediately turns around and whips out a badge. He was a tester, he had contraband in his bag, and they didn't notice. *I* noticed this guy was sus just being behind him in line, but the agents, *who had an xray machine scan his bag of contraband*, didn't.
The amazing thing is that that all the TSA people I have interacted with are so horrible to the people that are traveling. I remember after flying around the USA that I returned to Australia and when airport security was nice to me I was actually shocked.
I didn’t notice much of a difference flying in Australia vs US, but I was there right after some threat where they “implemented TSA like security”. They had no idea what they were doing and so they may have just been bumbling through it. One airport made us take off our shoes, another opened everyone’s bags to go through them because they didn’t have scanners yet.
@@settame1 I haven't made it to Australia, but UK and Europe suck too. The train stations too. I think TSA personnel, know their job is pointless. So either they are the kind of person that gets off on being an authoritarian ass or miserably depressed hating their job and life, knowing they would only get paid less if they got a better job.
I once had a TSA agent make me throw away an unopened chocolate bar. I was 14 and flying alone. I WAS TERRIFIED AND SHE LAUGHED ABOUT IT. That was 18 years ago and I will never fly again if I can help it
@@redfoxsecurity3334 It's the abuse of petty power over you. If they're willing and able to target specifically you with inane bullshit for her own amusement, that's a level of pettiness and power-madness that means getting you into serious trouble is entirely up to her whim. Being the subject of life-ruining whimsy is absolutely terrifying. Just ask any of the victim/protagonists of the classical fairy tales. The real ones that don''t whitewash it.
Ive been flagged at TSA almost a dozen times for things such as: Some scrap of a toy heli i took apart and forgot about in my pocket A tub of chocolate frosting that the previous TSA had let through A roll of quarters next to my wired ear buds (it looked like a pipebomb) A tiny pocket knife, that they gave back to me And many more. all the above events were before age 12
I like to measure time wasted as Lives Lost. Based on the 470 million minutes figure, in Miami alone the TSA is killing about 11.32 people every year. (894.2 years wasted divided by a lifespan of 79)
now do general population lockdown for months to attempt to mitigate an illness which only significantly effects people at the end of their life expectancy.
My late uncle was a retired FBI agent (back when that meant something.) After 9/11 they contracted him and his P.I. license to vet 100s of TSA employees. He was the first person I heard use the term "theater" in reference to the agency, and he was screening their hires! It's been a joke since the inception, and a complete waste of your tax dollars.
I am disappointed you didn't show a bunch of migrants in the TSA fast lane since that would be very topical right now. Probably animated this before that was a news story though
My company made an electronic device we were going to demo. The thing straight up looked like a bomb. Got to the airport 2 hours early because we knew tsa would question us. They didn't say ANYTHING. they paused the belt on my toothpaste longer than the machine.
TSA purposely makes you feel like a criminal, so you'll act like a sheep. It not only makes you feel scared while you wait but humiliates you also. I avoid flying at all costs. Had to twice last year and hated every minute of it.
Try finding a private pilot and pay them to fly you. Private pilots and their passengers don't go through TSA. They go to the hangar directly, load the plane, hop into queue, and take off. Just make sure your private pilot is competent.
Once again, this is _a_ response to the demand, "DO SOMETHING!" when the answer should be, "There is nothing we can do without infringing horribly on your rights, which will still not make you significantly safer."
Way back after 9/11, a sci-fi writer named Jerry Pournelle was saying that they should have just put a hammer in every seatback pocket and tell people they were responsible for their own safety.
I have learned never to take watches through a TSA checkpoint. I have had a couple watches stolen by them, and both time when I complained, I was treated like an idiot who never had a watch to begin with.
Your comment made me chuckle. I used to work at Boston Logan Airport, though I would cover the top of my uniform up on the way to work taking the subway, people would often ask me for directions. I think the blue stripe made me look like a mall cop, since I moved to the area for the job (not many opportunities in Michigan at the time with my degree) I grabbed city maps from the information desk at the airport. I would point out to the person where they were and give them the map. Transferred to some openings in closer airports to be closer to family and lack of security concerns at one small airport made me decide to leave TSA. The government shutdowns seem to hit TSA with no backlash on the democrats voting for it, that awhile being required to show up for work without knowing when you will get paid is not fun when you know the ones who didn't have to go to work will still get paid and you can't apply for unemployment like they can. I think Detroit metro airport probably still has good security, since before 9/11 tv stations would fly with a gift in a lead container and then make funny of the security for not looking inside.
This is why I use Greyhound, instead. They're not perfect, but at least I just shove my stuff under the bus. Never been violently threatened on Greyhound, either.
@@stevenscott2136 Yep. Was on a greyhound that hit a moose. We stopped while damage was assessed, police showed up, travelled to the next town & got on another bus waiting for us.
I once started the process of becoming a TSA agent, but instead took a different job. I took the test on identifying objects from an x-ray machine picture, and it is really hard to tell what is what, especially if it is hidden amidst headphone wires. And that is when you are paying full attention for a test. Trying to be as vigilant for a whole 8 hour shift, day after day, with nearly zero actual threats, and you begin to understand how complacent the IDF was just prior to the Palestinian attack.
@@microchip470yes, you're technically right, but in practice you're wrong. Soldiers knew Ḥamas were planning something, but the soldiers in the front lines didn't rate the threat particularly highly. They didn't take Ḥamas seriously. That border was considered the safest one: drug cartels on the Egyptian one, the Arabs occupying Judea and Samaria often attacked soldiers and civilians, and the north has Ḥezbollah (in the meantime).
@@shragamildiner8472 It wasn't the front-line soldiers' fault. They were hung out to dry by the senior command. The senior command didn't take the threat seriously enough to order a heightened state of alert. The attack occurred on Shabbat and on a holiday so there was a skeleton crew of soldiers. Had the senior command taken the threat more seriously, that wouldn't have been the case. This was combined with the fact that Hamas' first action was to destroy the cameras and communications systems of the fence. This left the IDF blind and unable to communicate what they could see. Hamas then attacked the IDF field intelligence unit that was responsible for monitoring the border. So the IDF soldiers couldn't get the message out to the rest of the IDF even if they wanted. All of this occurred when Hamas launched several barrages of rockets towards Israel. This meant that many people, including soldiers, were taking cover. It was considered the most secure border because people made the assumption that the technology was sophisticated and that Hamas couldn't thwart it. Oct. 7, revealed how the overreliance on technology was misguided policy and can't replace having a physical presence in the territory.
Went through the Italian airport in Rome, less than 2 mins and did not even have to open the carry on for the X-ray. Reduced the travel stress by a lot and had a pleasant flight to Zurich.
It really grinds my gears that most TSA gun policies are so strict and so hard to follow. That happend to my later older brother 2 years ago before he took his own life. He had to pay a s**t ton of money to travel with his 10mm Handgun.
The people in charge of the office that manages TSA could just do a project to make it evidence based security, it would be easy and probably more fun as well, but they don't. No one does. Something is deeply wrong with humanity.
it's basically a result of trading freedom in for safety. The thing is that it is also mainly because of 9/11 in which i have a feeling that it could have been prevented but no one in the airport wanted to do something about OBVIOUS suspicious behavior (some guy was already on a watch list and he was taking flying classes to fly the plane)
Saying the TSA keeps us safe from terrorists is like saying having a painting keeps us safe from tigers. I mean, I have one, and there aren’t any tigers at my house
A youtuber showed how easy it was with social engineering to get contraband thru. He did it with a bunch of fake plastic snakes and had a synthetic proxy snake with real snake bones a nearly identical skin but because tsa found all his plastic snakes first they didn't bother looking for the *real* hidden snake compartment
Certain luggage can’t actually be seen through by their scanners, or at least certain angles that’s why they’ll run bags through twice if they think they see something, they just need a different angle. My roommate used to work on designing the machines and smuggled things all the time.
The TSA is like gun control, it mght give you the illusion of safety but it is totally incapable of actually doing anything to prevent crime or tragedy.
I had a pretty significant shoulder injury when I was in my early twenties... Complete rebuild with screws and anchors in my LEFT shoulder. Fast forward 15 or so years and I have to fly on a business trip. Go through the TSA screening process... Empty my pockets, take off my shoes, full body x-ray scan. Step in the machine and get irradiated. TSA agent pulls me to the side and says he has to check my shoulder area... Proceeds to check my RIGHT shoulder for whatever he thought looked "suspicious." Geniuses at work.
Funny that I just got back from a trip yesterday and this comes across my feed. Hired scolds, was my assessment. My flight out, I got yelled at for not taking a keyboard out because it was an "electronic". My friend's cork screw got confiscated, but some multitool he also had in his bag was missed. On the way back, one line is shouting "Leave your electronics in the bag!". The next line "take your electronics OUT of your bag!". Just insane. And TSA-pre? That only saved you about 5 minutes, according to their display.
To be fair, a lot of people on the “no fly list” are farmers who buy nitrogen for their crops, which is an ingredient that automatically sets off alarms for the authorities. Yes, being a farmer and growing crops means you are on the same level as a Terry.
South Park made fun of the TSA in a Toilet episode but I do get pissed off how the TSA wouldn't let a person who is scared of flying bring a Parachute and Emergency Kit.
My Parents were saying if I were to bring a Parachute for Emergencys basically the TSA would remove it since I'm scared of flying heck I don't think I will fly but I'm sure people who have same fear as me got it confiscated.
Last time I flew I was traveling on military orders and would be traveling for over 24 hours and changing into my uniform at my last stateside stop, first TSA checkpoint confiscated my toothpaste and my shaving razor handle. They didn’t take the spare razor blades I had in my bag. Guess what you can’t buy in any of the stores past the TSA checkpoint. Toothpaste. So I had 24 hours of nasty breath and had to shave using just the spare razor cartridge.
Honestly, what the US should do, it cute the TSA by 90%, and put the price of security to the Airlines themselves. Sure, the cost may be passed onto the consumer but 1. Private companies always to better than government ones, so much more efficient security. 2. Each airline can set their own safety standards, as long as they're flying domestically. 3. It would allow other Airlines to compete with eachother price wise.
This would make more segregated airports with only certain airlines going to certain gates. It would slow things done significantly and customers would hate it. Most countries when you go into the international section you get cut off from 90% of the airports niceties because it’s behind security, now imagine that but it’s immediate and you start deciding what airline you’re going based on who has the best food in their gate section.
This might be the dumbest idea in this whole comment section lol. Imagine Spirit airline security. Now remember that those planes will be flying over your head, and cities.
My dad worked for TSA as an IT guy. He constantly complained about how ineficient it was. He mostly worked in an office building near the airport. There was more than 3x as many TSA employees in the office than at the airport actually doing the security. He got to carry plastic explosives around the airport for a day when they were training bomb sniffing dogs. In the early days they took absolutley everything. He managed to retrieve an Hierloom of a member of our church. It was a money clip that had a tiny fold out blade.
On my last trip, they made me throw away a small jar of peanut butter. PEANUT BUTTER!!! Like how is peanut butter a threat to national security? Listen, I get maybe someone is allergic, so I’ll just not open it. But for fucka sake man…TSA’s getting ridiculous and it’s time to shut em down
This is why pre check and global entry are the best things I have ever done. Global entry saves me about an hour every time I come through customs, pre check is about 20-30 min depending on the airport every time I fly.
When me and my siblings were younger, my family took a 38-hour car trip to California once a year to see extended family. I think at one point I learned that flying was faster and asked why my parents didn't do that. At the time, I was told it was because my mother got sick on airplanes. Once all five of us kids were adults, though, they told us the *real* reason was because with how long it would take to get five rowdy kids through TSA, we'd be one of the most annoying families for other flying customers to deal with. We weren't even that misbehaved, but we all had unique needs that my parents knew how to deal with but that TSA agents wouldn't. As adults, we flew to my grandma's deathbed and back, and then (a month later) her funeral and back just fine.
You missed a big point with the TSA waiting: the wait times mean more people packed into the airport at the same time, which makes the airport a bigger target for terrorist attacks.
as someone who worked in an airport, no. they had a spot check test for the scanners. not one agent on duty for the three days of the testing passed any of the tests. its all theater.
I tried telling this to some people, how TSA costs way more than it's worth, and that it doesn't actually do much protecting. But even after they acknowledge that TSA doesn't do what it's stated to, that it really only serves to waste time and money and drive people insane, when the proposal to get rid of TSA comes up, they still hesitate or even refuse. It's like TSA has become a sort of security blanket for them. The inconvenience somehow makes them feel safer.
Flying to Minn after Christmas. While waiting to do the “moose” scan a TSA agent yells, “Whose bag is this?” Holding it up over her head. “That’s mine.” I said smiling. She yells, “Do you have a drink in here?” As she moves towards me and throws my carry on onto the stopped conveyor. “I need to look in your bag now.” She’s still excited. “Oh, that’s my bear you’re seeing.” She glared at me, “You have a bear in your bag sir.” I unzipped my bag. “Yes ma’am, it’s right here in my wolf hat.” A plaid faux fur hat with flop down ear covers. I pulled the hat out and she all but leaped back as I pulled a 6 inch long wood caving of a grizzly bear from the hat. “Oh” she says, “Put it in this tray. The amount of laughter from the people around was amazing. She quickly disappeared before I finished my screening. The agents muttering, “It must be my bear.” Chuckling as I put my shoes and belt back on.
I travelled a lot (pre covid) and once went thru security with my camera bag and ended up at gun point with my face on the ground. It turned out that some of my camera equipment had shifted around in my luggage in such a way that the X-ray really did look like a gun. The lens formed the handle, the mini-tripod formed the barrel and a filter formed what really looked like the trigger guard. Obviously, a closer inspection (both of the X-ray image and by opening the bag) showed there was nothing sinister, but it was still very silly of them to react like that when, even if it were an actual gun, they had it their possession.
If we can't unite under how useless the TSA is then I have less hope for the species.
im mean anti goverment protests increasssing so i guess there is hope cuase TSA made by the goverment sooooo yeah
@@orhanefeunal1811most of those protests aren’t over things like useless agencies. TSA, FDA, IRS, and so on are all bloated, inefficient, corrupt, and useless
But they stop 20% of illegal things there for you all are just tin foil hat wearers and it proves they do a good job .
Sarcasm
I once got told by one of these dudes that it wasn't okay to have shampoo. Cool.
Asked the dude if I could throw away some shaving razors I had in the trash.
His response was "No you can keep those."
....for a carry on bag...
Same thing with my water, "it didnt come from this side so throw it away, you can buy a new thing of water over there" its a complete scam!!@@spiffygonzales5160
Dealing with the TSA is the main reason why I avoid flying altogether. The second reason being how awful airlines service has become. I refuse to pay hundreds of dollars to get violated and treated like dirt in order to save time on a trip.
Don't forget about inclusivity pilots
That's why we need better rail infrastructure and service
Yeah, that's why I'm thankful for the small airport in my city. It may cost more to fly from it, but the time driving and waiting in line is SO MUCH shorter. It only takes maybe 10ish minutes to get through security, and that's WITH a line
@@user-op8fg3ny3j until that gets full of inclusivity conductors, engineers, and designers... I'll stay in my car
@@frenchfrey65 You think the automotive or aerospace industry isn't full of DEI hires either?
Literally nobody thinks the TSA is anything but theater. Why do we keep paying for it?
unfortunately, not "literally nobody". Think about how many people are vaxers and maskers. You think those folks are capable of thinking deeply enough to see the TSA is a scam?
As Reagan said, the closest thing to eternal life on earth is a bureaucracy.
the bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy
I blame George W Bush.
CATS had an 18-year run on Broadway. The TSA has been going for 22-years. A poorly thought-out "temporary policy" that is long past it's closing time.
The TSA is a product of the "wE hAvE tO Do sOmEtHiNg" mentality. And how often to do rash decisions result in a good thing?
You mean like "fully safe and effective"
>we have to do something
>this is something
>we must do this
@@TheJacklikesvideos
> It makes me _feel_ safe 🤗
I see you complaining I don't see you bringing up solutions.
TSA: That's Sexual Assault
So 2012-2013 i helped my brother move to florida and was set to fly back to NY. I was 19-20 road weary and looked disheveled at best and homeless at worst. Got theough security just fine but when I got to the gate and was standing in line to board there was a TSA agent next to the ticketer who literally just stared at me for the entire time. By the time it was my turn to board I plopped my backpack on the counter, produced my ticket and asked if I could help them. He said he wanted to go through the backpack one more time, i said okay, he found a cookie and an apple that I "smuggled" but completely ignored the actual pocket knife that even I forgot I brought and didnt realize until after i made it home.
But man, those cookies, they could've been dangerous.
You’re allowed to bring food through as long as it isn’t liquid. I’ve brought salads through just fine as long as the dressing is a small enough container. I used to bring grapes but often bring snacks in general.
Cookie Monster is a wanted fugitive in 43 countries. Better safe than sorry.
@@settame1 fruits and veggies are absolutely not allowed on any flights in or out of country, as they can easily conceal insects or diseases that could be catastrophic if introduced to an ecosystem that's never met them before
Also, I got flagged for a tub of Chocolat frosting
The TSA agent just wanted some snackies. He was having an absolutely terrible day and was hoping those cookies were CDB laced.. Fuck the knife though, no one really cares for that.
@@settame1I brought a subway sandwich through.
It's been shown that private security in airports elsewhere has actually been more effective and efficient than the TSA.
Because they're actually held liable.
No... I don't believe it
because private security can be held accountable
You can *fire* private security if they don't do their job. You can not fire a government employee without spending 100's of 1000's of dollars. It brings new meaning to the old phrase, "It's cheaper to keep 'er."
@@shragamildiner8472John stossel has talked about it a few times, mainly the private companies do better on the undercover tests
In our town of 350,000 people, the local airport changed from having big warning signs at the base of the stairs and escalators designating everything beyond as the secure area (what you'd do if you wanted to prevent people from bringing weapons into the secure area) to putting the little inconspicuous gun buster signs on the outer doors designating the entire terminal as a secure area. This is Kentucky and everyone is carrying concealed and we're accustomed to ignoring those gun buster signs at the mall, bank, and other businesses where they have no legal authority. They have a great legal significance at the airport. Putting the commonly ignored gun buster signs on the outer doors is what you'd do if you wanted to catch hectic travelers who pose no actual security threat to bump up your guns-seized-at-airport statistics to justify your worthless tax wasting existence.
They caught my friend Ray with this scam. He realized he had his 24/7 carry revolver as soon as he saw the security procedure but by then it's too late. If you try to leave, they'll grab you for suspiciously avoiding the security screening. Poor Ray confessed his mistake to the TSA agent who balled him out, knowing that Ray is a decent law abiding citizen who isn't an actual threat. The TSA goon then summoned the local cop who escorted Ray out of the building. Ray gave the pistol to his wife and went through the security process to board his flight, but he was given a lot of extra attention, even though they knew he wasn't a threat. It was punishment. Two weeks later, Ray received a letter from the TSA, telling him that he owes a $2,200 fine and now he's on the TSA SSSS. It's the Secondary Security Screening Selection - the lite version of the No-Fly list. From now on, law abiding Ray will be given an extra helping of irradiation and sexual assault at the hands of the TSA, which does nothing to improve airline security. It's the government punishing armed Americans, because governments always hate armed serfs.
He should sue the airport and the TSA or maybe get a group of people who have been wronged by the TSA and sue the agency as a group.
The federal government is the enemy of the people.
Uh.. he shouldn't have brought a gun to the airport?
@@Shadowtiger2564 - Thank you, Captain Obvious. I'm guessing you don't carry a concealed firearm every day? Never been in a hurry rushing to the airport?
@Shadowtiger2564 I disagree. The airport shouldn't have the authority to fine people for a constitutionally protected act. However, if they are going to, they should at the very least not punish people for doing the right thing.
Used to work at an airport as a cabin cleaner (the janitors that clean the plane between flights) and it wasn't TSA checking the planes, we were. It was standard procedure for us to check under and behind all the seats for contraband as we were cleaning despite having no training in how recognize such things or to handle them if we actually found any, and then let TSA know about it. They didn't check anything unless we found it and happened to know it wasn't just garbage to be thrown away. I know more than a few people who had to get tested for diseases after accidentally stabbing themselves with used syringes while cleaning behind seats. What's even scarier is that all the stuff we did find had to get passed TSA at a different airport to get on those planes, so I know they aren't effective.
Syringes are actually allowed by TSA. I had to take some injectable medication on a plane once and they didn’t even need me to declare it, they just scanned it on through. Same with packaged injectable medication.
@@settame1 i get the impression a lot of those were a different kind of drug. Hell, once I found an electric hotplate, a frying pan and several empty pill bottles all piled up in a bathroom sink on a plane. I can't be the only person who'd look at those items and think there were certain implications.
Yep and cabin crews do a pre flight check.
@@settame1
So take better care of your syringes. Keep them on you until you find a proper way to dispose of them.
We now have adults who have never experienced flying without the TSA.
Yup i'm one, though i got a taste of no TSA. I flew passenger with a buddy who was working on his flight hours to commercial pilot and as it turns out if you are a pilot or passenger on a private flight they just send you through a back gate straight to the hangars with 0 checks. You fuel the plane, check the flight plan, and talk to the tower before hopping into the runway queue and taking off. Never even saw a TSA agent.
Hot take. How about TSA checking out people who actually match the profile for someone that has the possible motivation to do something, instead of shaking down the 80 year old White grandma who can barely move at the speed of slow.
doesn't fit the democrat agenda of anti white policies
Same reason european cops would much rather go after "online misgendering" than Abdul helping himself to some five-finger discounts.
But grandma lets me take out my mommy issues.
I once got onto a plane bound for DC with a rather large knife in my carry on. I forgot it was there, and clearly the TSA forgot it was there, too lol
i've seen 3 guys all go through security with the same razors received as groomsman gifts. They stopped 1 guy and made him open the box and toss the blade. The other 2 walked right through. These people are useless
A friend of mine got through with a knife on his belt. It wasn’t big, just a small ish pocket knife but it was clearly visible. He completely forgot it was there.
My sister has gotten a full tube of toothpaste though. Didn’t even try to hide it. The TSA agent picked it up looked at my sister and said “I don’t blame you” and gave it back. Hahaha
@@ninjagirl226I brought a bottle of shampoo once not having read the regulations and the agent was the most sanctimonious soul sister ever. She asked me what I wanted to do with it, and I asked "What can I do other than throw it away?" And she shook her head condescendingly. Okay lady, if you don't want me to waste the shampoo, you don't have to throw it away.
@@CrizzyEyes maybe you should’ve drank it?
My disabled father can’t fly because all his internal hardware ensures he gets an hour of playing “humiliate the cripple” any time he thinks of flying.
Recently he missed the chance to attend my godfathers funeral because TSA’s special attention caused him to miss his flight.
The worst part about that is that you can get a card from a doctor explaining that you have metal hardware, but the TSA is still going to do a thorough exam.
They do love picking on the handicapped.
They took my cane away and got mad because I touched the side walking through the machine. Yeah sorry, I lost my balance WITHOUT MY CANE!
A friend had a few hundred dollars worth of prescriptions stolen. Just got bounced back & forth. Airport told her it was a TSA issue, TSA told her it was an airport issue. Fortunately it happened when she was coming home so she could get refills. Though the “they were stolen” was an issue with her insurance.
A guy with a colostomy bag was tackled from behind because he was "hiding a bag".
When the bag exploded they were going to charge him with bringing hazardous materials - ignoring the fact he needed to get to the hospital to put his stoma back together at the moment.
Well, you should always factor in the extra minutes or hours that any country's security theatre will add to your trip, especially if you're expecting it by being a prime candidate for an enhanced inspection.
🤦🏾
Many years ago I had my nail clippers "confiscated" by the TSA. Why? Because it was "A deadly weapon." I quipped that if someone can take down an plane with nail clippers, they didn't need them at all.
I was then promptly detained, questioned, and missed my flight. Now every time I fly I also get "randomly bag checked", weird, huh?
clearly you've never seen "Meet the parents" prior to doing that.
Good. You FAFOed. Good for you 👍
That one is on you buddy
They claimed my shoes were so smelly they were considered a deadly weapon…they took my shoes.
@@ninjagirl226 Yes, it's a potential biohazard for long exposure on an enclosed space.
Trusting the government to handle something well is like trusting Edward Scissorhands to perform a prostate exam without complications.
Under-rated comment here
There's an image.
I would trust Edward to perform my prostate exam quicker than I would ever trust the TSA to keep me safe.
Hmmmmm......fair.
The TSA is actually very good at confiscating lighters, even if they have to rummage through IED parts to find it.
Had an unopened bottle of water in my bag, i was in a rush since i had only 45 minutes to get to my terminal. The TSA worker stopped me for an ungodly amount of time waiting for another worker to come over so they could "dispose" of it as if it was hazmat, wearing rubber gloves and everything. Dude looked like he was straight out of highschool and im like "Dude. I'll chug the entire bottle of water RIGHT now just to get out of this, im even slightly thirsty just let. Me. Go." Needless to say i wasted a hood 20 minutes sitting there as he opens it, dumps all of the water out, then disposes of the bottle in a hazmat bin... Was absolutely furious because it not only wasted my time and money, but also wasted precious water that would've been for me to drink. Sped through the terminal with just enough time to get on the plane.... I've realized long ago the TSA wouldn't actually be able to stop actual terrorists from getting on the plane and mostly just a hindrance to actual people... Remember one time they broke a lock on my bag (held everything together) because of.. shoes... My steel toe work boots to be specifically (i can only assume anyway.), as they were on the luggage section (doesn't go through scan). When the bag came out on the caracell thing at the pickup, my clothes were just scattered there. No idea to this day if they stole anything, but i can only assume they did, as a few things were just missing from it. Could've happened on the plane ride there, or them throwing it on the conveyor, or on the way out. Tried to file a complaint but they were just like "We had to open it because we thought we found something suspicious..." God i hate TSA
I get being a bit more cautious after 9/11 but really outside of checking what's in your bag all the other crap is unneeded.
Checking what's in your bag and if you come up on a watchlist I would say.
Yeah, I too get being a bit more cautious of the government after they did 9/11
Honestly, besides 9/11 I can only remember like one attempted terrorist plane hijacking incident, and the culprit was a depressed suicidal pilot so the TSA wouldn't have stopped it anyway.
It's like if a meteor hit Manhattan one day and from now on everyone in every nation was forced to wear anti-meteor suits of armor 24/7 despite decades of no meteors.
@@Heavenlyhounds96 Only if there is some kind of due process to put someone on that list, and a method of getting off of it.
Watchlists are just an end run around the rule of law.
The shoe thing has legitimate precedent -- a man did hide explosives in his shoes, and another man hid explosives in his underwear -- but TSA fails at doing the things they're supposed to do so badly that their existence should be questioned vigorously. The underwear guy actually got on the plane but, as with most amateur bombers, his explosives failed to detonate and instead literally set his pants on fire
I trust random strangers at the airport bars more than I trust the TSA...or any federal agency for that matter.
Florida Man is the hero that we need and deserve.
My mom loves the TSA because she gets to spend 20 minutes talking in circles about her family to an agent in the process of explaining that she has more titanium than bone in her legs. If she's lucky then she'll miss her flight and she gets to tell everyone for the next 30 years about how the TSA always detains her and causes her to miss flights because of her knees.
Virgin TSA time waster vs Chad granny time waster
Is your mom the kind of lady that telemarketers try to hang up on? 😂😂
@@NarwahlGaming can confirm. I once put my phone on mute for 2 full hours while she talked. She cried 5 different times and seamlessly changed topics without so much as an "uh-huh" from me.
In June 2023 wife an I took our first flight for personal reasons since 2010.
On our return home flight we got in a line with about an hour till scheduled departure. The 'estimate' when we joined the line was 20 minutes but pretty much the moment we got in line it stopped moving - almost as though they shut a lane down.
There was absolutely no sense of urgency with the TSA as the line we were in grew longer and longer. Moved at the same 'my job security does not depend on my job performance speed' you expect.
We only managed to make our flight because of the kindness of a dozen other travelers to allow us to go ahead of them.
Usually if you alert an agent they’ll let you jump to the front of the line or swing you over to the pre check. Remember your departure time is always about 30 min behind boarding so you do want to get there with more than a 10 min buffer.
@@settame1 When I finally got to the guy who was letting people enter the last step queue I told him about our situation and he said the line is the line and if you have to ask people.
There's no excuse for it taking 1+ hour on a day with nominal volume.
No mass flight cancellations or no funky weather that could cause a sudden and unexpected shift in volume. Just an average ordinary summer day.
@@dorvinion What airport was it? Some airports are well known for having horrid security and will shut lines down at random. While others (like MSP) are much more capable.
@@Tank50us SeaTac, Sunday early afternoon.
For comparison, a week earlier we had flown out of STL Lambert (allegedly STL has the 2nd worst average TSA delay record) on a Saturday afternoon. We pretty much waltzed through in about 5 minutes.
@@settame1
Y U Lie?
You would think that the first step in preventing dangerous people from getting through airport security, would be to ensure that you don’t hire dangerous people to conduct airport security.
The government isn’t bad at everything they do, the government just does everything bad.
When I was younger I worked for Delta Airlines, I was a ramp agent at CVG. Sometimes I would go to IND or DTW and work for a few weeks/months to fill in. Back in 2010, I was working in IND when the TSA's budget was coming up for a renewal and the word around the airport was they were going to get budget cuts. Suddenly they had to add a new IN-HOUSE check point and crack down on US employees, they ran dozens of "drills" and basically made a big show of how IMPORTANT they were just to keep the higher budget. All they did was add more annoyance to the airline workers making our jobs even more stressful.
The TSA provides a very important puic service: it continuously reminds me to never waste money and time on commercial air travel!
i remember John Stossel doing a video on this subject, a private company replaced TSA in a PA airport, it was not only cheaper to finance for the airport, but employee morale for the company was better, room for promotion, and of course, IT WAS MORE EFFICIENT ALTOGETHER! The TSA is a perfect example of Reagan's greatest quote, "I'm from the Government and I'm here to help", because the government ruins everything.
Sheamus if you're reading this, check out the Fat Electrician's video on our Mail carrier vehicles, it's another great example on what happens when the government does anything.
Which PA airport was it?
@@Heavenlyhounds96 give me a minute cuz I don't recall.
@@Heavenlyhounds96 looks like I was mistaken, it wasn't PA, it was San Francisco of all places! czcams.com/video/wd_S1YqOg2Y/video.html
I remember when Adam Conover did this exact same thing way back on Adam Ruins Everything. Was stunned to realize how much of a waste of time most of this is.
That's crazy...cause he's actually never right about anything
@@nightwingaven69 Ah, but this was back during the early era of the show when he wasn't an insanely left leaning stooge who constantly attacked America.
With the exception of what you just said here, no matter when the show was, I can't think of a single time I have seen him be right about anything. It has nothing to do with left or right, he's just not intelligent at all@@thefanwithoutaface8105
Mythbuster did a episode on boarding lines and found that current methods of filling seats is also super time wasting
Though it wasn't a study it still points to a larger idea.
That's why I fly business class. no boarding issues at all. First one on, seats right there with no line, first one off, drinking for free at lounges and during the flight make all the pain go away@@r.connor9280
My eye-opening moment was when a guy in front of me at the airport was acting just sketchy enough that I was thinking "should... should I say something? this guy is weird" and then he gets let through with his bag, immediately turns around and whips out a badge. He was a tester, he had contraband in his bag, and they didn't notice. *I* noticed this guy was sus just being behind him in line, but the agents, *who had an xray machine scan his bag of contraband*, didn't.
I saw one failure, and it convinced me the entire thing is a failure?
Anomalies aren’t norms.
@33greenleaf >70% isn't an "anomaly" anymore.
@@vision-dz6cm source?
@@33greenleaf keep taking that copium
@@rucker69 your anecdotes are your cope 🤷♂️
Just remember what The Fifth Element showed an insane parody of a dystopian airport security system would look like, then go through the TSA.
In that film, I don't think they were far away from installing the Police guns in your home at the yellow circles...
Best description of the TSA I heard is from Family guy: "bored fascism"
The amazing thing is that that all the TSA people I have interacted with are so horrible to the people that are traveling. I remember after flying around the USA that I returned to Australia and when airport security was nice to me I was actually shocked.
I didn’t notice much of a difference flying in Australia vs US, but I was there right after some threat where they “implemented TSA like security”. They had no idea what they were doing and so they may have just been bumbling through it. One airport made us take off our shoes, another opened everyone’s bags to go through them because they didn’t have scanners yet.
@@settame1 I haven't made it to Australia, but UK and Europe suck too. The train stations too.
I think TSA personnel, know their job is pointless. So either they are the kind of person that gets off on being an authoritarian ass or miserably depressed hating their job and life, knowing they would only get paid less if they got a better job.
They took my cane away then got mad that I touched the edges. Yeah my balance isn’t great, hence the cane!
And the border is just wide open
I once had a TSA agent make me throw away an unopened chocolate bar. I was 14 and flying alone. I WAS TERRIFIED AND SHE LAUGHED ABOUT IT. That was 18 years ago and I will never fly again if I can help it
😂😂😂
What is this story?
You shouldn't fly not because of trauma but because diversity hires are your pilots and you'd die if you were on one.
I’m having trouble seeing how being made to throw away your 🍫 could be “terrifying” in any way?
@@redfoxsecurity3334 It's the abuse of petty power over you. If they're willing and able to target specifically you with inane bullshit for her own amusement, that's a level of pettiness and power-madness that means getting you into serious trouble is entirely up to her whim.
Being the subject of life-ruining whimsy is absolutely terrifying. Just ask any of the victim/protagonists of the classical fairy tales. The real ones that don''t whitewash it.
@@SupLuiKir “abuse”?
I don’t think that word means what you think it means.
Ive been flagged at TSA almost a dozen times for things such as:
Some scrap of a toy heli i took apart and forgot about in my pocket
A tub of chocolate frosting that the previous TSA had let through
A roll of quarters next to my wired ear buds (it looked like a pipebomb)
A tiny pocket knife, that they gave back to me
And many more. all the above events were before age 12
I like to measure time wasted as Lives Lost. Based on the 470 million minutes figure, in Miami alone the TSA is killing about 11.32 people every year.
(894.2 years wasted divided by a lifespan of 79)
now do general population lockdown for months to attempt to mitigate an illness which only significantly effects people at the end of their life expectancy.
The tired ‘amen’ is pretty relatable..
“Tax evasion is a crime Virgil!”
“ITS AN OBLIGATION”
As a joke. In minecraft.
Im MOTIVATED!!!!!
Haha funny grandpa's meme
Nope, especially if illegal immigrants can get on planes with only an app and no ID 😬
My late uncle was a retired FBI agent (back when that meant something.) After 9/11 they contracted him and his P.I. license to vet 100s of TSA employees. He was the first person I heard use the term "theater" in reference to the agency, and he was screening their hires! It's been a joke since the inception, and a complete waste of your tax dollars.
I am disappointed you didn't show a bunch of migrants in the TSA fast lane since that would be very topical right now. Probably animated this before that was a news story though
I love the added detail of the snails going by
My company made an electronic device we were going to demo. The thing straight up looked like a bomb. Got to the airport 2 hours early because we knew tsa would question us.
They didn't say ANYTHING. they paused the belt on my toothpaste longer than the machine.
TSA purposely makes you feel like a criminal, so you'll act like a sheep. It not only makes you feel scared while you wait but humiliates you also. I avoid flying at all costs. Had to twice last year and hated every minute of it.
Try finding a private pilot and pay them to fly you. Private pilots and their passengers don't go through TSA. They go to the hangar directly, load the plane, hop into queue, and take off.
Just make sure your private pilot is competent.
Once again, this is _a_ response to the demand, "DO SOMETHING!" when the answer should be, "There is nothing we can do without infringing horribly on your rights, which will still not make you significantly safer."
profiling people would be more effective
Way back after 9/11, a sci-fi writer named Jerry Pournelle was saying that they should have just put a hammer in every seatback pocket and tell people they were responsible for their own safety.
LOVE the snail
What’s real bad is that specifically it’s the American TSA that sucks.
Customs and border agents in other countries do effective work.
TSA just sucks
Canada security is not any better, but at least I can keep my shoes on.
Yeah, no. I've flown into Poland and Finland and their security is worse, if anything.
I remember the days when you could walk up to the gate with someone with no problems.
Ah the hug goodbye at the gate. Yeah those days are gone.
I have learned never to take watches through a TSA checkpoint. I have had a couple watches stolen by them, and both time when I complained, I was treated like an idiot who never had a watch to begin with.
Did you go through the fun game of runaround?
Airport mall cops do not like it when you call them mall cops.
Your comment made me chuckle. I used to work at Boston Logan Airport, though I would cover the top of my uniform up on the way to work taking the subway, people would often ask me for directions. I think the blue stripe made me look like a mall cop, since I moved to the area for the job (not many opportunities in Michigan at the time with my degree) I grabbed city maps from the information desk at the airport. I would point out to the person where they were and give them the map. Transferred to some openings in closer airports to be closer to family and lack of security concerns at one small airport made me decide to leave TSA. The government shutdowns seem to hit TSA with no backlash on the democrats voting for it, that awhile being required to show up for work without knowing when you will get paid is not fun when you know the ones who didn't have to go to work will still get paid and you can't apply for unemployment like they can. I think Detroit metro airport probably still has good security, since before 9/11 tv stations would fly with a gift in a lead container and then make funny of the security for not looking inside.
This is why I use Greyhound, instead. They're not perfect, but at least I just shove my stuff under the bus. Never been violently threatened on Greyhound, either.
Also, you rarely sit in a bus parking lot for six hours while they "fly in a part from Atlanta".
@@stevenscott2136
Yep. Was on a greyhound that hit a moose. We stopped while damage was assessed, police showed up, travelled to the next town & got on another bus waiting for us.
The TSA and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
I once started the process of becoming a TSA agent, but instead took a different job. I took the test on identifying objects from an x-ray machine picture, and it is really hard to tell what is what, especially if it is hidden amidst headphone wires. And that is when you are paying full attention for a test. Trying to be as vigilant for a whole 8 hour shift, day after day, with nearly zero actual threats, and you begin to understand how complacent the IDF was just prior to the Palestinian attack.
The IDF actually knew about Hamas’ training and intent, but it was the senior intelligence officials who dismissed the intel of their subordinates.
@@microchip470yes, you're technically right, but in practice you're wrong. Soldiers knew Ḥamas were planning something, but the soldiers in the front lines didn't rate the threat particularly highly. They didn't take Ḥamas seriously. That border was considered the safest one: drug cartels on the Egyptian one, the Arabs occupying Judea and Samaria often attacked soldiers and civilians, and the north has Ḥezbollah (in the meantime).
@@shragamildiner8472 It wasn't the front-line soldiers' fault. They were hung out to dry by the senior command. The senior command didn't take the threat seriously enough to order a heightened state of alert. The attack occurred on Shabbat and on a holiday so there was a skeleton crew of soldiers. Had the senior command taken the threat more seriously, that wouldn't have been the case.
This was combined with the fact that Hamas' first action was to destroy the cameras and communications systems of the fence. This left the IDF blind and unable to communicate what they could see. Hamas then attacked the IDF field intelligence unit that was responsible for monitoring the border. So the IDF soldiers couldn't get the message out to the rest of the IDF even if they wanted. All of this occurred when Hamas launched several barrages of rockets towards Israel. This meant that many people, including soldiers, were taking cover.
It was considered the most secure border because people made the assumption that the technology was sophisticated and that Hamas couldn't thwart it. Oct. 7, revealed how the overreliance on technology was misguided policy and can't replace having a physical presence in the territory.
I love the snails passing the protagonists as they are standing in line. I guess mollusks can get TSA Pre-check.
Went through the Italian airport in Rome, less than 2 mins and did not even have to open the carry on for the X-ray. Reduced the travel stress by a lot and had a pleasant flight to Zurich.
It's actually faster in the United States....for illegals being flown in by the NGOs
It really grinds my gears that most TSA gun policies are so strict and so hard to follow. That happend to my later older brother 2 years ago before he took his own life. He had to pay a s**t ton of money to travel with his 10mm Handgun.
So how does paying to travel with it make it safer? If someone is part of a bad group you think they won’t cough up the extra cash?
The "no fly" list deserves a scathing video of its own.
You mean the one that’s ridiculously easy to get on?
OR you can just pay and avoid certain rules. (Which is the most ludicrous thing of all about the TSA, most other countries don't let you do that)
Yeah because no bad guy would pay to avoid rules.
@@madtabby66 Which is why its stupid they allow people who pay to keep their shoes on or leave stuff in bags.
The snail with the walker was epic!
The people in charge of the office that manages TSA could just do a project to make it evidence based security, it would be easy and probably more fun as well, but they don't. No one does. Something is deeply wrong with humanity.
it's basically a result of trading freedom in for safety. The thing is that it is also mainly because of 9/11 in which i have a feeling that it could have been prevented but no one in the airport wanted to do something about OBVIOUS suspicious behavior (some guy was already on a watch list and he was taking flying classes to fly the plane)
Saying the TSA keeps us safe from terrorists is like saying having a painting keeps us safe from tigers. I mean, I have one, and there aren’t any tigers at my house
Tbh hearing "they let people on watchlists through" doesn't hit very hard after learning what it takes to get on those lists
A youtuber showed how easy it was with social engineering to get contraband thru. He did it with a bunch of fake plastic snakes and had a synthetic proxy snake with real snake bones a nearly identical skin but because tsa found all his plastic snakes first they didn't bother looking for the *real* hidden snake compartment
I'm confused, when we're snakes banned by the TSA?
@@joak9992 Common smuggling often involves pets or exotic animals for resale
Certain luggage can’t actually be seen through by their scanners, or at least certain angles that’s why they’ll run bags through twice if they think they see something, they just need a different angle. My roommate used to work on designing the machines and smuggled things all the time.
The CZcamsr was "Allan Pen"
He chose to do his experiment with the new 3d scanners in airports.
The TSA is like gun control, it mght give you the illusion of safety but it is totally incapable of actually doing anything to prevent crime or tragedy.
One time coming back from Hawaii they detected something on my knee and patted me down. I was wearing shorts.
I had a pretty significant shoulder injury when I was in my early twenties... Complete rebuild with screws and anchors in my LEFT shoulder.
Fast forward 15 or so years and I have to fly on a business trip. Go through the TSA screening process... Empty my pockets, take off my shoes, full body x-ray scan. Step in the machine and get irradiated.
TSA agent pulls me to the side and says he has to check my shoulder area... Proceeds to check my RIGHT shoulder for whatever he thought looked "suspicious."
Geniuses at work.
I did see in the news that TSA agents did do a strip search on a 7-year-old kid without parents consent.
Probably Biden voters that watch Jimmy Kimmel
And those agents got promoted to prisoners
It's interesting because just imagine the chaos of some kind of new policy coming out making the TSA optional or outright banning it.
Some airports have kicked them out in favor of private security, and it's been a big improvement
Funny that I just got back from a trip yesterday and this comes across my feed. Hired scolds, was my assessment. My flight out, I got yelled at for not taking a keyboard out because it was an "electronic". My friend's cork screw got confiscated, but some multitool he also had in his bag was missed. On the way back, one line is shouting "Leave your electronics in the bag!". The next line "take your electronics OUT of your bag!". Just insane. And TSA-pre? That only saved you about 5 minutes, according to their display.
Ever look at the hiring standards for TSA agents? Literally anyone can do it.
Between the TSA and DEI you'd have had a better time sailing on the Mayflower and, at this point, a higher chance of surviving
To be fair, a lot of people on the “no fly list” are farmers who buy nitrogen for their crops, which is an ingredient that automatically sets off alarms for the authorities.
Yes, being a farmer and growing crops means you are on the same level as a Terry.
My wife had a costume lightsaber hilt confiscated out of her checked bags because "a lightsaber is a weapon and weapons are not allowed on planes."
The belt buckle story is in this episode because it happened to me, so... I fully believe you.
- Sean
South Park made fun of the TSA in a Toilet episode but I do get pissed off how the TSA wouldn't let a person who is scared of flying bring a Parachute and Emergency Kit.
TSA's rules specify parachute ARE allowed. You sure it wasn't the airline that said no?
My Parents were saying if I were to bring a Parachute for Emergencys basically the TSA would remove it since I'm scared of flying heck I don't think I will fly but I'm sure people who have same fear as me got it confiscated.
Thank you so much Seamus for finally being able to upload a new video after almost a month. The snail 🐌 was hilarious. God bless you.
The worst part are the signs saying "No verbal abuse". God forbid TSA agents have to face, get this an insult. The horrors.
TSA on two separate occasions has mistaken the drawstrings on my sweatpants for a threat and had to give me crotch pat downs.
How cute are you? Did the fingers go roaming?
Last time I flew I was traveling on military orders and would be traveling for over 24 hours and changing into my uniform at my last stateside stop, first TSA checkpoint confiscated my toothpaste and my shaving razor handle. They didn’t take the spare razor blades I had in my bag. Guess what you can’t buy in any of the stores past the TSA checkpoint. Toothpaste. So I had 24 hours of nasty breath and had to shave using just the spare razor cartridge.
Imagine a world without long TSA search lines and just walking up to any airport gate without any hassle. I miss that.
I learned the other day that it's possible to make a bomb out of stuff you can acquire _after_ passing the TSA.
I’ve heard that for years and I’ve never quite understood why no one has done it.
Because most people don't want to blow up the plane they're on?
Honestly, what the US should do, it cute the TSA by 90%, and put the price of security to the Airlines themselves. Sure, the cost may be passed onto the consumer but
1. Private companies always to better than government ones, so much more efficient security.
2. Each airline can set their own safety standards, as long as they're flying domestically.
3. It would allow other Airlines to compete with eachother price wise.
This would make more segregated airports with only certain airlines going to certain gates. It would slow things done significantly and customers would hate it. Most countries when you go into the international section you get cut off from 90% of the airports niceties because it’s behind security, now imagine that but it’s immediate and you start deciding what airline you’re going based on who has the best food in their gate section.
This might be the dumbest idea in this whole comment section lol. Imagine Spirit airline security. Now remember that those planes will be flying over your head, and cities.
My dad worked for TSA as an IT guy. He constantly complained about how ineficient it was. He mostly worked in an office building near the airport. There was more than 3x as many TSA employees in the office than at the airport actually doing the security.
He got to carry plastic explosives around the airport for a day when they were training bomb sniffing dogs.
In the early days they took absolutley everything. He managed to retrieve an Hierloom of a member of our church. It was a money clip that had a tiny fold out blade.
Dont let him lie to you. Seamus has always been Florida Man.
The snails add a great contrast to the speed of the line.
On my last trip, they made me throw away a small jar of peanut butter. PEANUT BUTTER!!! Like how is peanut butter a threat to national security? Listen, I get maybe someone is allergic, so I’ll just not open it. But for fucka sake man…TSA’s getting ridiculous and it’s time to shut em down
One of the benefits of living in a small town is not dealing with long lines at the airport ^^
This is why pre check and global entry are the best things I have ever done. Global entry saves me about an hour every time I come through customs, pre check is about 20-30 min depending on the airport every time I fly.
That is the plan... How much of your privacy and personal information did you give up for those 20 - 30 minutes? Photo? Fingerprints? Biometric data?
When me and my siblings were younger, my family took a 38-hour car trip to California once a year to see extended family. I think at one point I learned that flying was faster and asked why my parents didn't do that. At the time, I was told it was because my mother got sick on airplanes.
Once all five of us kids were adults, though, they told us the *real* reason was because with how long it would take to get five rowdy kids through TSA, we'd be one of the most annoying families for other flying customers to deal with. We weren't even that misbehaved, but we all had unique needs that my parents knew how to deal with but that TSA agents wouldn't.
As adults, we flew to my grandma's deathbed and back, and then (a month later) her funeral and back just fine.
I heard that some airports have privatized TSA services. Those supposedly do better, and I was hoping that was going to show up here.
In theory it's a good idea. In practice, not so much.
You missed a big point with the TSA waiting: the wait times mean more people packed into the airport at the same time, which makes the airport a bigger target for terrorist attacks.
as someone who worked in an airport, no. they had a spot check test for the scanners. not one agent on duty for the three days of the testing passed any of the tests.
its all theater.
The TSA can learn something from the Israeli airport security.
I loved the snails in the express line.
"Look, i found a terroist!" Said no TSA agent ever.
I tried telling this to some people, how TSA costs way more than it's worth, and that it doesn't actually do much protecting. But even after they acknowledge that TSA doesn't do what it's stated to, that it really only serves to waste time and money and drive people insane, when the proposal to get rid of TSA comes up, they still hesitate or even refuse. It's like TSA has become a sort of security blanket for them. The inconvenience somehow makes them feel safer.
Rough flight back from Iowa, Seamus? Seriously though TSA took a bottle of maple syrup and a jar of honey from me. Ridiculous.
Love the snails moving faster at the bottom. 😂
Flying to Minn after Christmas. While waiting to do the “moose” scan a TSA agent yells, “Whose bag is this?” Holding it up over her head. “That’s mine.” I said smiling. She yells, “Do you have a drink in here?” As she moves towards me and throws my carry on onto the stopped conveyor. “I need to look in your bag now.” She’s still excited.
“Oh, that’s my bear you’re seeing.”
She glared at me, “You have a bear in your bag sir.”
I unzipped my bag. “Yes ma’am, it’s right here in my wolf hat.” A plaid faux fur hat with flop down ear covers. I pulled the hat out and she all but leaped back as I pulled a 6 inch long wood caving of a grizzly bear from the hat.
“Oh” she says, “Put it in this tray.
The amount of laughter from the people around was amazing. She quickly disappeared before I finished my screening. The agents muttering, “It must be my bear.” Chuckling as I put my shoes and belt back on.
I travelled a lot (pre covid) and once went thru security with my camera bag and ended up at gun point with my face on the ground. It turned out that some of my camera equipment had shifted around in my luggage in such a way that the X-ray really did look like a gun. The lens formed the handle, the mini-tripod formed the barrel and a filter formed what really looked like the trigger guard. Obviously, a closer inspection (both of the X-ray image and by opening the bag) showed there was nothing sinister, but it was still very silly of them to react like that when, even if it were an actual gun, they had it their possession.
❤ seeing those snails zipping by the line. 🤣😂