Yesterday morning, Manchester, NH, a nice small airport, quick in and out.
So I go through security, I’ve done this before you know
Same bag, Same Stuff as the past 100 times through
- Small backpack with one days worth of clothes in it, “BAG CHECK”
- I’m laughing “ You got too much time on your hands”
-Guy in front of me is laughing and says, “Troublemaker”
- Now, they are already checking someone elses bag and can’t come check mine
- Finally come and check and hand it to me
- Then my work backpack goes through, “I have to rerun this”
- “Jiminee Christmas come on!”
- The 2 guys watching the monitor pick up my bag and rerun it and from my right comes another TSA guy
-“Is there a problem?”, and he gets 2 inches from my face
- “Yeah, they got too much time on their hands”
- “THEY'RE JUST DOING THEIR JOB AND HE IS IN TRAINING”
- Now that explains why they were bag checking every 3rd bag, the dude was new
- “Just give me my bag and I’m outta here”
- “ I’m gonna check you bag now”, and he takes my backpack to the TNT machine
- “Whatever”
- “You want to get smart?”, and he tells another guy, yes the 5th TSA person in this line, to “Call Leo”
- “I guarantee your gonna miss your flight! Let me see your boarding pass and ID”
- So I showed it too him, 2 INCHES FROM HIS FACE
- “Sorry, I had to drop someone else off, so I’m 2 hours early, I’m not missin nothing”
- “WHERE’S LEO?” he says to the 5th TSA guy
- TSA #5 says to me, “Keep your mouth shut”
- So I turn around and here’s 2 Policemen, one being Leo
-“Is there a problem?
- “Not with me”, and I start laughing and he goes and talks to the TSA with an attitude
- TSA#5 says, “ Have a seat this is gonna take a while” and he starts filling out the “Bad Passenger Paper” with my name all over it.
-“Ok, but I still got 2 hours”
- The other Policeman was cool, and was giggling to himself when the guy told me that
- He says to me quietly, “Dude I know, but it ain’t worth it”
- I told him, I didn’t do anything
-After all was said and done
I was berated for having a 2 oz Hand Sanitizer in my backpack, cause he couldn’t find anything else I did wrong.
I got my boarding pass back
I got my ID back
I got a Bad Passenger write up, which, I did not get a copy of and I’m sure is a very one sided description of what happened
A- Their training was just delaying the line. Someone can tell the new dude, Hey that’s a razor
B- The dude tried to show his authority
C- He was intent on making me miss my flight
D- The guy that filled out the paperwork was just an ass
E- Who knows what was written up and if I’ll get any kind of TSA followup
Oh yeah and F- Northeast people are the most arrogant, uptight, in a frickin hurry, got an attitude, people, I’ve ever been around.
I will update you on any further correspondence with my new friends
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That is one incredibly funny story. Read it out loud to everyone over the weekend. We all split a gut. There is always one idiot in the bunch who wants to give people a hard time. Glad you had a couple hours to kill. I am sure that ticked him off. :)
It's the small airports... way too much time.
They just recently pulled a 1" combination Pocket knife/scissors/tweezers/toothpick from my toiletry bag that has been there since 2001. It's gone through 1000 times! But, in New Orleans, way too much time, ran it through twice, opened my luggage, opened my toiletry bag, unloaded everything and pulled out that. Now there's no way they saw that, they just got lucky when he unloaded everything
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