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Widespread TSA theft-this is security?!
The Transportation Security Administration has moved from being useless to being actively hostile to Americans' peace of mind. Read this absurdity and marvel at our government's incompetence to hire honest and upright people:
Two airport screeners at Kennedy Airport -- both of them women -- have been arrested and charged with stealing the wallet of a man who was going through security screening.
They then allegedly went on a spending spree with the man's money.
Eyewitness News Long Island Reporter Lauren DeFranco has the story.
"It's heartwrenching ... my social security cards, my id cards."
For William Canberry, a simple trip to Key West turned into a monumental hassle.
When his baggage arrived late, Canberry realized the contents of his wallet had been stolen.
William: "They rifled through it. ... They didn't just find it accidentally."
The retired New York City Firefighter immeadiately cut his vacation short, worried and devastated by the loss.
William: "My identification from the fire department, my retirement badge -- things I'll never see again."
The investigation into the theft at JFK turned up shocking surveillance photos.
Sources say TSA Screeners Ronniki Ack and Yvette Reynolds were still in uniform and caught red handed using the stolen ATM card at various banks.
The two allegedly went on a shopping spree. Sources say one even bought an iPod from a Circuit City.
William: "When the Homeland Security thing came through, they flooded the airports with these people with very little background checks and very low pay. The bottom line is you get what you pay for in this world."
In fact, Eyewitness News obtained an internal hand written memo. The agency admits that stealing is very prominent by certain screeners, though the TSA officially denies stealing as a chronic problem.
Both TSA screeners are charged with grand larceny, criminal possesion of stolen property, and official misconduct because they are government employees.
The Port Authority is executing search warrants as this is an ongoing investigation.
Posted by evariste on Dec 16, 2005 11:53 am
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Holy Shit. Anyone who voted for this nitfuck deserves the government that they've gotten. I feel sorry for the
#4 zorki: I think the situation is a little different _ via a vis _ South and Central American
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[ #3 ]/ Cam: I know the Chinese do that and that there are networks who loan money to
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#2 zorki: They work it off when they arrive.
A little OT, but every time I read the stories about illegal immigrants who come to the West for jobs,
packen, if you haven't seen "Fallen", you should.
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Anyway, you guys have two new threads at the top to play with, plus whatever you put in the hippo. I'm going to my office to work for a few hours. Have fun :-)
On my recent trip, in my checked luggage, I had a plastic bag that held my toiletries and medicines. I had a 7-day pillbox with my vitamins and other non-prescription medicines, and also a bottle of skin cream/aftershave. The little doors on the pillbox were left ajar after the search and the aftershave was not sealed tight - the result was a muck of pills congealed in spilled aftershave.
IIRC they outsource to security companies first and then used the same companies as "head hunters" to fill the jobs, giving them a lot of lead time and finder's fees to bring in qualified people.
Most security companies pay at the bottom of the scale. I remember after the OK bombing an nitwit stopping me in a Fed bldg because he was convinced my trick bike pump was some futuristic weapon.
I took the test for the TSA a year or two ago -- didn't pass. I think I flunked the "find the items in the x-ray picture" part. Fnakly, I don' think I could have kept sane doing that all day.
RadioMattM I'm sure you were overqualified. Recruiters probably figured you would quit before the 90 waiting period and they would lost their commission!
when I go through security I have the agent hand check my wallet/fannypack so I can watch him/her myself. Also medicines and toiletries travel with me as well as jewelry. I put all in my carry on luggage. and, I lock it, and unlock it when I get to the other side of the x-ray machine for the screener to look through it while I watch him/her. I then organize everything after the screener has looked through it, and re lock it.
It's bad enough that we can't lock our checked in baggage, so i keep all my valuables and change of clothes and 2 days underwear with me incase the lose my luggage.
Most security companies pay at the bottom of the scale. I remember after the OK bombing an nitwit stopping me in a Fed bldg because he was convinced my trick bike pump was some futuristic weapon.
My favorite in the Federal Building where I worked was the hissy fit the security guys had over cameras, while passing virtually 50% of the people through with cell phones....that take pictures.
Speaking of outsourcing, insourcing, downsizing and rightsizing...
Another bombshell hit the office - our company has just been bought by a Fortune 500 company. I'll be gone in a few weeks, of course, but it will give a hefty boost to my ESOP payout. :)
Aw Frank, I'm sorry.
It s*cks that they always do these things before the end of the year, so that it ends up ruining everones Christmas.
Can you divulge what exactly you do? Maybe some of my customers are hiring?
papijoe, we all know Frank is a Sekrit Agent Man.
papijoe -
More after I get home, or in an email.
I got my notice about a week ago, because Congress cut the funding for our core program severely.
Or so I was told.
That whole thing about going to Bolivia to visit his boyfriend? Complete bunk. He was overthrowing half of South America.
More after I get home, or in an email.
I got my notice about a week ago, because Congress cut the funding for our core program severely.
Or so I was told.
Stormah - LMAO!!! :)
The funny thing is that the previous company I worked for (as a temp) was a Fortune 500 company, but got spun off.
Hmm. That has potential...
More after I get home, or in an email.
I got my notice about a week ago, because Congress cut the funding for our core program severely.
Or so I was told.
Frank....What RIP Ford said...I am very sorry to hear that.
I saw something previously, but took it for an advance notice of potential layoff, like we used to get every year, not a notice itself.
Sorry to hear that Frank, what unfortunate timing.
Are you seriously thinking of moving to Bolivia?
My position ends on January 6, but I have a temp position within the company which should take me through to about March or so.
Wow, Frank, that really sucks.
Sorry about your job Frank. It's tough to face, but my own personal experience has taught me that sometimes things work out for the better. My job was eliminated after I had been with the same organization for 24 years. I was offered a job by an aquaintance of a work colleague the following week, I've have been there for 2.5 years now, working a four day week (fabulous!) and loving every minute.
Hang in there, good things happen to good people.
Frank IBC,
that really sucks, and we kno how you feel, hubby was laid off 1 month before Christmas. I hope you find another job soon, be keeping you in my thoughts!
The company that acquired us is a Fortune 100 defense contractor.
This is a plus for me, for several reasons:
-They paid a 62% premium over our previous appraisal (we're an employee-owned company, and our stock/ESOP is only appraised once a year). Also, I was under the impression that I was only 20% vested, it turns out that I'm 40% vested.
-If I stay until the purchase becomes effective, I can put the name on my resume.
-I have previously vowed never to work for a defense contractor or oil company, so I will miss the company I'm leaving much less. (Yes, there is a little bit of hypocrisy when you compare these last two points.)
The negatives
-The temp position that starts after my regular position runs out might be at risk.
-I feel even more small and vulnerable than I did last Friday.
Frank
What are your general job skills?
Perhaps you could cash in on Texas' new oil and gas boom.
Correction - Fortune 50 company.
What is wrong with defense and oil?
I worked for Halliburton for two years.
OT- While the ice storm the models were showing for this weekend in Dallas, at one point apparently the mother of all ice storm disasters, is totally not happening, and the models are backing away sharply from the Tuesday Texas ice/snow storm, the DGEX does show a small area of the Texas Hill Country, North and West of I-35, to possibly as far West as San Angelo, may get lucky and catch a significant ice storm.
Looks like plenty of cold air in the Northern half of the State, and lots of moisture in the South, but only a narrow area will intersect.
I'd pay to see people living West of MoPac in Austin, who have the million dollar homes atop 200 meter high hills with driveways at a 10o grade, try to drive their Lexus' and Land Rovers to work in a real freezing rain storm.
Of course, with that kind of money, they could call in sick.
Ah, my carbonate geology field trip. Paper, a ruler, a small bottle of hydrochloric acid to see if something was limestone or dolomite, a little hand glass for closely examining the fossils.
Dr. Land taught the class when I was there. There is a bicyclist passing on the road for scale.
Around AUS and SAT, the Edwards is an important aquifer, about 90 km further Southeast, it is an important petroleum reservoir near Luling.
I'll bet you never suspected the rocks around Austin were made from sea shells.
Hah... the rocks here are Precambrian metamorphic rocks.
Well, here in HOU, our rocks aren't really rocks, just alternating layers of clay and sand, washed down from the Central Continent, terrigenous clastics from the Laramide Orogeny, and then somewhat worked over by near shore currents.
KianB - LOL!! Your #21 is great ;-)
LoL Floranista, check out the guy's home page[NSFW], he has lots of funny images!
Okay, I thought this was a thread on thieving TSA'ers. I was gonna make a comment about those bums, but instead there's something going on about unemployed geologists or something. As Emily Latella used to say, "Never mind".
I recently flew from Phoenix to Sacramento. I had a brand new 3 blade Buck Knife in my checked suitcase. When I got to Sacramento, it was no longer in my suitcase. The TSA stole it.