TSA Experiences

Andrea · 03-31-2017, 08:39 AM

TSA defends pat-down of Texas boy; countless others creeped out

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/tripping/wp/2017/03/28/tsa-defends-pat-down-of-texas-boy-countless-others-creeped-out/?utm_term=.ddc94fff201a

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is defending an officer’s pat-down of a boy at a Texas airport that outraged his mother and thousands and thousands of people who viewed her Facebook posting on the incident.

For at least two minutes, the TSA officer at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport gives the boy a going-over that just seems a little too thorough.

First, the TSA officer explains to the boy what’s coming. Then the TSA officer, who is wearing blue gloves, moves behind the kid and starts with a search of the kid’s left shoulder. Nothing there. Then the right shoulder. Nothing there, either. The kid’s only wearing a T-shirt after all.

Then the TSA officer runs the back of his gloved hand down the kid’s back four times. Then he runs his hands up and down the kid’s torso on both sides.

Then the TSA officer examines the waistband of the kid’s shorts with the sort of painstaking care a tailor might show while taking in a seam. Then the TSA officer runs the back of his hand down the kid’s buttocks and upper leg on the left side six times or so, with a few on the right side for good measure. Then he wraps his big manly hands around the kid’s hams.

Now it’s time to move around to the front. The TSA officer frisks the kid’s shoulders again – you never know when you’re going to find an armpit bomb. Then down the torso again. Then it’s time to fuss at the waistband some more. Then the TSA officer runs the back of his hands down the front of the kid’s upper leg. More ham-gripping.

Phew. All done. The kindly TSA officer steps away as if the ordeal’s over but – nope, he’s back at the kid’s crotch again.

Take a look, as more than 5 million other people have so far. It looks like the TSA officer’s giving the poor kid a sponge bath, not a pat-down.

“We have been through hell this morning,” the boy’s mother, Jennifer Williamson wrote on Facebook. Williamson, who did not give her son’s age, said she had asked the TSA treat him in a way that would not aggravate his disability, known as a sensory processing disorder.

“He set off NO alarms,” Williamson writes on her Facebook page. “He physically did not alarm at all during screening, he passed through the detector just fine. He is still several hours later saying ‘I don’t know what I did. What did I do?'”

She didn’t respond to a request for comment made through Facebook. In her posting, however, she said her son’s screening took so long they missed their flight.

“I am livid,” Williamson writes. “I wish I had taped the entire interchange because it was horrifying.”

The TSA said it was just following orders.

*Anya* · 03-31-2017, 09:38 AM

Pat-down?

More like a molestation.

WTF??!!

I honestly feel like the whole world has gone insane since November.

Chad · 04-16-2017, 06:25 PM

I wonder how TSA will react to my tooth implant. I get my knee replacement through TSA without any issues but now I have my knee replacement and a tooth implant.

I will report back on my experiences.

homoe · 04-16-2017, 06:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Chad

I wonder how TSA will react to my tooth implant. I get my knee replacement through TSA without any issues but now I have my knee replacement and a tooth implant.

I will report back on my experiences.

Chad, if anyone goes to "frisk" ya inform them "not without dinner first" .......LOL

Chad · 04-16-2017, 06:54 PM

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Originally Posted by homoe

Chad, if anyone goes to "frisk" ya inform them "not without dinner first" .......LOL

Haha! I would probably just smile and say "pleased to make your acquaintance ma'am".

homoe · 04-16-2017, 07:06 PM

It is a damn shame they have NO sense of humor because I can think of a million things to say to crack them up!

Chad · 04-22-2017, 07:28 AM

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Originally Posted by homoe

Chad, if anyone goes to "frisk" ya inform them "not without dinner first" .......LOL

I did get a pat down in the airport and it got very personal. I thought that it did meet the dinner obligation or at least drinks. I hope she enjoyed playing with my body.

homoe · 04-22-2017, 03:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Chad

I did get a pat down in the airport and it got very personal. I thought that it did meet the dinner obligation or at least drinks. I hope she enjoyed playing with my body.

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Andrea · 06-14-2017, 12:48 PM

TSA begins testing fingerprint check-ins at two US airports

https://www.engadget.com/2017/06/14/tsa-testing-fingerprint-checkin/?sr_source=Twitter

It's never a nice experience to stand in line at the airport for hours just to get a pat down when you get to the end. Hopefully, TSA's new biometric fingerprint tech could make air travel a more pleasant experience for most people. Starting this week, the Transportation Security Administration's fingerprint sensors will go through proof-of-concept testing at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport and at Denver International Airport. The test will last for four weeks, and you can try it out for yourself if you registered your fingerprint as part of TSA's PreCheck program.

Your biometric info will serve as both proof of identification and boarding pass, so it can, in theory, lead to shorter lines and much speedier check-in. For the proof-of-concept test, though, participants still have to show their identification documents, boarding passes and tickets, since its purpose is to assess how accurate the biometric system is.

TSA Acting Assistant Administrator Steve Karoly said in a statement:
"TSA looks at technologies and intelligence capabilities that allow us to analyze and secure the travel environment, passengers and their property. Through these and other technology demonstrations, we are looking to reinvent and enhance security effectiveness to meet the evolving threat and ensure that passengers get to their destinations safely."

Haven't provided the agency your fingerprint yet, but you're willing to trust them with your info for the chance to test the new system out? You can still volunteer your fingerprint using its PreCheck lanes at the airport. If we're lucky, it could change the way airport security works in the US.

DapperButch · 04-17-2017, 06:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Chad

I wonder how TSA will react to my tooth implant. I get my knee replacement through TSA without any issues but now I have my knee replacement and a tooth implant.

I will report back on my experiences.

I have two implants. No problems and have been flying a lot in the past year.

Chad · 04-17-2017, 10:52 AM

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Originally Posted by DapperButch

I have two implants. No problems and have been flying a lot in the past year.

Thanks buddy.

Chad · 04-22-2017, 07:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Chad

I wonder how TSA will react to my tooth implant. I get my knee replacement through TSA without any issues but now I have my knee replacement and a tooth implant.

I will report back on my experiences.

I made it through all the scanners just fine. TSA is cool with my implants. They could not resist patting me down though.

03-31-2017, 08:39 AM	#1
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03-31-2017, 09:38 AM	#2
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04-16-2017, 06:25 PM	#3
Chad Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: OFOS Stone butch Preferred Pronoun?: He Relationship Status: Loved Caregiver Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Texas Posts: 6,164 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 11,746 Thanked 20,315 Times in 5,677 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	TSA I wonder how TSA will react to my tooth implant. I get my knee replacement through TSA without any issues but now I have my knee replacement and a tooth implant. I will report back on my experiences.

06-14-2017, 12:48 PM	#9
Andrea Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Mature Femme Preferred Pronoun?: Her/She Relationship Status: I heart Rene Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: California Posts: 3,755 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 15,427 Thanked 14,937 Times in 3,022 Posts Rep Power: 21474850	TSA begins testing fingerprint check-ins at two US airports https://www.engadget.com/2017/06/14/tsa-testing-fingerprint-checkin/?sr_source=Twitter It's never a nice experience to stand in line at the airport for hours just to get a pat down when you get to the end. Hopefully, TSA's new biometric fingerprint tech could make air travel a more pleasant experience for most people. Starting this week, the Transportation Security Administration's fingerprint sensors will go through proof-of-concept testing at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport and at Denver International Airport. The test will last for four weeks, and you can try it out for yourself if you registered your fingerprint as part of TSA's PreCheck program. Your biometric info will serve as both proof of identification and boarding pass, so it can, in theory, lead to shorter lines and much speedier check-in. For the proof-of-concept test, though, participants still have to show their identification documents, boarding passes and tickets, since its purpose is to assess how accurate the biometric system is. TSA Acting Assistant Administrator Steve Karoly said in a statement: "TSA looks at technologies and intelligence capabilities that allow us to analyze and secure the travel environment, passengers and their property. Through these and other technology demonstrations, we are looking to reinvent and enhance security effectiveness to meet the evolving threat and ensure that passengers get to their destinations safely." Haven't provided the agency your fingerprint yet, but you're willing to trust them with your info for the chance to test the new system out? You can still volunteer your fingerprint using its PreCheck lanes at the airport. If we're lucky, it could change the way airport security works in the US. __________________ I am very spoiled! What we think about and thank about, we bring about! Today I will treat my body with love and respect.

04-16-2017, 07:06 PM	#6
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