Loaded gun slips through airport security....

[member006]

Honesty apparently isn't always the best policy. He is facing charges for admitting his mistake and owning up to it. Yet nothing pending for the real mistake here. Its a shame that the airport security can't face some type charges for the potentially disastrous mistake they made. I mean come on, had the man had a plan to bring harm on that flight, it may have been doomed. Bet they don't even get a slap on the wrist.



http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/23/airport.gun/index.html


LL

 

[Vanilla Bear]

Nothing serious. I know a few possibilities to get a gun through airport security.
But of course I wont tell them here.
I respect the airport security. :thumbsup:

(And I know that many people would do many bad things with this knowledge)
But not me :nono:

 

[dick van cock]

The main problem is that airport security staff is appallingly underpaid and badly trained, working up to 12 hour shifts.

How can you expect perfect service when they're insufficiently funded?

 

[wigster]

The main problem is that airport security staff is appallingly underpaid and badly trained, working up to 12 hour shifts.

How can you expect perfect service when they're insufficiently funded?

This is very true, and unfortunatly there are some people that just think of it as a job, and are only there for the money. I came back from australia recently and was surprised just how easily i could have got through customs at heathrow, I didn't of course, but half the staff there looked like they didn't give a toss, and weren't doing there jobs properly.

 

[Facetious]

The you know whos will never own up to their shortcomings . . and that's a shame

^ DVC - If that's correct, and I believe it is, get with the program, ladies & gentlemen !

The rank & file do the best that they can with the resources available, I'd imagine . . . Who controls the funding (?) :1orglaugh

The guy deserves something for his honesty.

 

[member006]

The main problem is that airport security staff is appallingly underpaid and badly trained, working up to 12 hour shifts.

How can you expect perfect service when they're insufficiently funded?

I myself truly expect better than this in this day and time. Also they can cry me a river on the funding. It costs a small fortune to fly anywhere these days, plus the other help they get for security. Maybe its because they are overpaid and full of themselves. They're lucky to have jobs and many would gladly do it right if given the opportunity to have work and benefits. To say nothing of the pride I personally think one should feel in such a job. Prompting them to do it well because of its importance.

People I feel are getting just plain lazy and have a 'hand it to me' attitude. Most have no pride in a job well done anymore. IMO

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[dick van cock]

I myself truly expect better than this in this day and time. Also they can cry me a river on the funding. ^[...]

People I feel are getting just plain lazy and have a 'hand it to me' attitude. Most have no pride in a job well done anymore. IMO

The way working conditions are today, this is a low-end job. You take it when you can't find anything else. It's a choice between frisking smelly aircraft passengers or stacking the shelves at WalMart, for these people.

I, for sure, wouldn't be motivated to do my best.

 

[Facetious]

Seemingly every operation these days is an endeavor to "cut costs" !

The He!! with quality !

The more consolidated things become, the less ethic.

 

[member006]

The way working conditions are today, this is a low-end job. You take it when you can't find anything else. It's a choice between frisking smelly aircraft passengers or storing the shelves at WalMart, for these people.

I, for sure, wouldn't be motivated to do my best.

Well, I would have to do my best ditch digging or being a Princess. :dunno: That's just who I am. If others lives were at stake I would surely do my job to the best of my ability, no matter or leave it. If I couldn't then I'd head for WalMart right away, where I would still do my best.

LL

 

[tartanterrier]

They obviously aren't as severe as they are in Heathrow.Every bloody security point I went through I got the same treatment.Off with the shoes and body searched.I must be a pin-up in Asia

 

[titsrock]

The TSA, in the US, is a complete waste. The screening itself is the same system that was in place before 9/11. All that's changed is passengers have to disrobe to some degree (jackets/shoes off) and various items have to be placed in clear bags...:dunno: This is not exactly a complete change from 9/11. I guess the theory being "there's safety in hassling people?"

I think the Airlines are going to go to a system of 1 bag checked/per customer and you're not allowed to carry anything through the metal detectors. You can buy things inside the terminals or when you get to your destination....

Having workers stare into piece of shit, ancient, black-n-white tv screens is only going to give these people headaches and blindness....

TSA and Dept of Homeland Security need to be taken apart, defunded, and forgotten that we ever had them...

 

[wigster]

And in England there are laws saying you can now take up to 2 bags onboard planes instead of 1, which will make it more difficult for the airport staff to deal with.

 

[Becks...poamr]

If my current place of employment didn't depend on me so much...and the fact that I'd have to leave many members of my male harem behind...I'd become an airport screener.

I'd have Newark Liberty International Airport whipped into shape in no time!!!

 

[D-rock]

I agree with the people that say if we need to have good screeners for security the least we could do is to make it a good job so people will take with the seriousness it deserves.

I'd have Newark Liberty International Airport whipped into shape in no time!!!

Is that a literal statement?

 

[Facetious]

I wonder if the charges would have been dropped if he was a reporter for CNN etc.

 

[Ovidius]

It seems that all that airport security is good for is to strip ordinary people of "dangerous" items such as nail scissors and shampoo. When a man with a loaded firearm walks straight through nothing happens; also, when federal agents test security they are able to slip bombs and bomb making materials through without any problems.

Why not just admit it, airport security is just another political scam through which the "friends and benefactors" of your politicians gain lucrative contracts for providing a lousy service.

 

[slowhand]

That's is scary but he did come back and let them know he had it he could have went on and said nothing he made a mistake.


I think they should have shifts like a 8hrs and then replace them with someone fresh so they wont get tired and let things slip by. I think it would help then let someone stand there for a long time and make those mistakes.

 

[BNF]

I still don't understand why they aren't real "cops", like just about every country I've visited, instead of elevated security guards.

 

[Vanilla Bear]

I still don't understand why they aren't real "cops", like just about every country I've visited, instead of elevated security guards.

yes in Germany its the "Bundespolizei" (former "Bundesgrenzschutz) - (Federal Border Police)
and of course the "Zoll"

 

[dick van cock]

yes in Germany its the "Bundespolizei" (former "Bundesgrenzschutz) - (Federal Border Police)
and of course the "Zoll"

That's not correct.

Flight security rests in the hands of the airports. They have increasingly outsourced security personnel to private companies that are responsible for the appalling conditions described by me above.