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Another pleasant security related story

On the face of it, it certainly seems the flight crew overreacted to the threat he posed.

Obviously his first mistake was wanting to keep his fanny-pack in arm's reach, even though it must have gone through security. Maybe next time he could carry his wallet in his pocket (like a true patriotic American would).

But reading a book about airplanes...really?! That's considered theatening? Come on, I mean if I was a terrorist intent on disrupting a flight I don't think I would wait until I was on the plane to study up on how to do it.

I wonder what they'd have thought if he'd been flight-simming on his laptop.
 
I think there is more to this story then what we are reading. The airline pushes the red button because a passenger wants to keep his wallet under the seat instead of in the overhead, and is reading a book?
 
I'm affraid TSA has no clue as to who the enemy is. With their pandering of PC correct procedures, they let unbathed, poorly dressed scumbags through without a second thought and then they give a GI traveling on an official passport and governmental orders to the war a high security check.

Of course that pales in comparison to them patting down babies, children and octogenarians.

Wish they'd get a clue.
 
robert41 said:
I think there is more to this story then what we are reading. The airline pushes the red button because a passenger wants to keep his wallet under the seat instead of in the overhead, and is reading a book?
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Always is with these one sided tales of woe, and where in all that was the racial profiling?
 
Its always easy to side with the individual/individuals being harrassed with these types of stories... And I personally am always left with asking myself, "Well, what should have happened." Did they overreact, yes... Was it racially driven? I don't think we could possibly know that unless you were one of the flight crew. I dislike the TSA just as much as the next aviation enthusiast, but I truly feel that in today's crazy messed up society, you are in a "damned if you do, and and damned if you don't " world..........
 
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