what is the deal with the TSA?!?

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over the mountain
11-08-2010, 12:22 PM
the fact that somehow this is an excepted practice is not only sad but mind boggeling.

i have no problem with them doing their job but where in there job does it say to be careless and disrespectful of others personal property? open my stuff up search through it do whatever you have to do to "fight terrorism" but atleast have some respect. and if you damage it tape it shut, they ripped the zipper out of half of the bag and then instead of taping all the way around the bag they put two peices along the zipper.

and honestly how does ripping through my bag help fight drugs thats what the x-rays are for, and all that was in my suitcase was clothes and one knife and a leatherman which are perfectly legal in checked luggage

im just guessin but maybe they saw the knife on the xray and decided to investigate personally? idk how big the knife was but i would assume that if im coming from costa rica and brought a knife in my checked luggage that it would get more scrutiny and probably raise some kinda red flag for further investigation, etc.

is a leatherman a rifle?

a few years after 9/11 i had a bunch of high end salt water lures in my carry on and they made me throw them away, really really sucked. some of them did have huge hooks, i suppose.

CRedskinsRule
11-08-2010, 12:53 PM
Not that it is any help at this point, but now you can buy locks that allow for TSA to have a master key, I think all luggage stores sell them.

Sorry for your loss mlmdub. Just seems like there ought to be some sort of acknowledgment of the damage they did.

mredskins
11-08-2010, 01:46 PM
im just guessin but maybe they saw the knife on the xray and decided to investigate personally? idk how big the knife was but i would assume that if im coming from costa rica and brought a knife in my checked luggage that it would get more scrutiny and probably raise some kinda red flag for further investigation, etc.

is a leatherman a rifle?

a few years after 9/11 i had a bunch of high end salt water lures in my carry on and they made me throw them away, really really sucked. some of them did have huge hooks, i suppose.


It is a Swiss Army knife on steroids bitch! =)

mlmdub130
11-09-2010, 06:50 PM
http://i874.photobucket.com/albums/ab307/mlmdub130/DSCN3148.jpg
http://i874.photobucket.com/albums/ab307/mlmdub130/DSCN3149.jpg

so this is what my luggage looked like coming up the carousel. and i guess i forgot to say in my original post that my bag had no lock what so ever on it.

so far i have gotten three seperate emails telling me "Thank you for your inquiry to the Transportation Security Administration. We have forwarded your email to the appropriate group for response."

by this time i'm alot more calmed down than i was when i first saw the bag, and know that i will receive nothing in return. i just think it is sad when this is what we have come to where people just have no regaurd for other peoples belongings. and i bet a friggin 7 year old could tape the bag shut way better than the donk that taped mine :doh:

MTK
11-09-2010, 08:44 PM
The price we pay to be "safe" I guess.

saden1
11-10-2010, 09:34 AM
Price of protecting your freedom that the terrorist hate. Suck it up and ask not what your country is doing to your bag but what can you do to make it easier for your country to ruffle through your bag.

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