Category: TSA

AirSnark’s Book Is Out!
By: Date: January 9, 2016 Categories: Air Travel,Airlines,Airports,Car Rental,Hotels,TSA Tags: , ,

So a while back I wrote a travel book, detailing exactly how someone who is new to the business traveler world should navigate.  Points this, hotel that, and the like.  Then the book sat unloved for a while. Well it’s not only been resurrected – it’s published! Currently the book, titled A Million Miles Amok:…

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Has the TSA just thrown in the towel?
By: Date: November 16, 2015 Categories: Airports,TSA Tags: , ,

So I was flying out of my home airport, Portland International, this morning.  First had to head through security – luckily with my TSA PreCheck, so I could fly through security in front of all of the other regular travelers.  It’s faster, right? Umm, no.  Not that the two TSA PreCheck lines weren’t going fast….

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How I knew it was going to be a bad TSA day
By: Date: April 8, 2013 Categories: Airports,TSA Tags: , , , , ,

I guess I can explain my tweet of last night.  Flying out of PDX, for some reason I didn’t get TSA PreCheck again.  Three weeks in a row.  I made a “Ugh!” type comment, was overheard by a TSA agent, and she proceeded to “bait” me into a fight.  Here’s the exchange: Me (to TSA…

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Dear TSA: WTF?
By: Date: September 4, 2012 Categories: Airports,TSA Tags: , , , ,

This is frustrating…  People – including me – have gone off about the TSA and their ‘porno scanners’; what an invasion of privacy they are, how unsafe they are, and the like.  A judge ordered that the TSA was supposed to hold public comments, so that we could hear from people and experts.  You know,…

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Freedom Of Expression v. The TSA
By: Date: July 19, 2012 Categories: Air Travel,TSA Tags: , , , ,

And who wins?  Freedom of Expression! Remember a few months back when there was a guy who protested the TSA by stripping naked in the middle of Portland International Airport?  Well he went to trial on indecency charges, and they were dropped by the judge. I can’t believe they even bothered to take the guy…

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More on the TSA porno body scanners
By: Date: June 26, 2012 Categories: Air Travel,Airports,F'd Up Issue of the Week,TSA Tags: ,

Anybody remember the video from last March about getting things through the TSA body scanners?  Well the original guy is at it again, and has video of his incident via a “freedom of information” act. Here it is.  Support this guy! <iframe src="http://www strattera online canada.youtube.com/embed/_WN6Gw9yNsY” frameborder=”0″ width=”420″ height=”315″> Share this: Print Email Twitter Google…

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Proof that there is a hell…
By: Date: June 26, 2012 Categories: Air Travel,TSA Tags: , , ,

…and it’s at the Orlando international Airport. Seems someone was traveling with their grandfather’s ashes in a properly marked glass container when their bag was subject to a “bag check” by the TSA.  The TSA agent opened the jar and promptly spilled about 25% of John Gross’ grandfather’s remains.  What’s the worst part?  The agent…

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