From WFAA:
Police suspect Clayton Keith Dovel, a Transportation Security Administration baggage inspector at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Terminal E, of stealing iPads from checked luggage.
Here’s a tip folks, don’t put electronics in checked luggage. The TSA workers cannot be trusted.
TSA workers at La Guardia airport in New York City found two pipes in a passenger’s bag so they removed them. Although they were determined to not be dangerous, the pipes were confiscated anyway and the TSA tossed them in a nearby bin that the TSA uses at their checkpoints. Everyone forgets the pipes are even in the bin.
Six hours later, a new shift comes on to work. This shift of TSA workers freaks out because no one knows how these pipes got in the bin, so the TSA workers call the police bomb squad out of “abundance of caution.” This “abundance of caution” does not apply to passengers because, at no point in time is the airport evacuated and no portion of the airport closed while the bomb squad investigates.
So, just what were those pipes?
Several law enforcement sources told CNN the objects were determined to be homeopathic medical devices.
Image is from the CNN story.
The TSA caused a security scare at LAX, causing delays after mistaking a woman’s insulin pump for a gun.
The incident occurred around 7:30 a.m. as the female passenger was being screened at Los Angeles International Airport. She went through electronic screening, which detected an item shaped like a weapon, the sources said.
But before screeners could search her, she walked away toward the boarding gates. Concerned Transportation Security Administration officials immediately alerted LAX police and the LAPD of a possible security breach.
So the screeners are so incompetent that they can’t stop one woman from walking away, nor can they detect the difference between a gun and an insulin pump? Their first thought was to call the police instead of stopping her?
Sources familiar with the incident said security staff scrambled to determine what happened but eventually realized the “weapon” was actually a medical device.
The woman was briefly detained and questioned. Authorities delayed some passengers boarding for up to an hour, according to sources.
How did this realization come about? According to the report, the realization came first, then they detained and questioned her. Just exactly how incompetent is the TSA?
