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Some airport screeners have sticky fingers
MONTREAL - The way Denis Bouffard remembers it, all he did was slip his hand into passengers' plastic bins at the airport security checkpoint where he worked and swipe a little spare change. (cnews.canoe.ca) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
If you thought this was only a problem in the US with the inept TSA you are clearly wrong.... this is going to be a problem everywhere. As we continue to hire the lowest common denominator to paw through everyone's belongings, this will keep happening.
Establish some screening methods of your own in your hiring program TSA.
It is noted that the Crown contracts and oversees private corporations to screen at airports. I passed through YHZ twice this summer and YVR once. The YVR group were on a par with the TSA but the YHZ at least in the International area were superb...as good as any I have encountered in the US, Europe or Asia. Polite, efficient and helpful, they were well trained and supervised. The lines were organized in such a way with plexiglass fences that obviated any reaching in.
I was carrying an otoscope in my carry on. They picked it up on the screen and inspected my bag in front of me, resealed the case and ran it through again with the offending device outside...all within a minute or so. There was no gossiping or chatter and they changed the screener every 10 minutes. The message: Privatize.
I was carrying an otoscope in my carry on. They picked it up on the screen and inspected my bag in front of me, resealed the case and ran it through again with the offending device outside...all within a minute or so. There was no gossiping or chatter and they changed the screener every 10 minutes. The message: Privatize.
I actually wonder how much is TSA and how much is elswhere. I think it has been going on for years to some degree, just by crooked people in general. I remember a trip years ago from Frankfurt into McGuire, and my dad had a very expensive 35mm camera lifted from one of his bags. This was in the day before any screening so it just had to be an out and out thief going thru bags as there was no outside indication it contained anything out of the ordinary
Members of congress are now calling for the TSA to give up the screening duties and focus on actual transportation security. It won't happen as long as we have a big government president. The TSA now has the authority to unionize, thanks to B.O.. How hard will it be to get rid of them once they're organized. They are just like a cancer, they must be cut out, using wide margines.
TSA reached deep into my jeans... and stole every pair in my luggage. Things will change once the thug in the White House is removed. Chicago thugs, that is.