TSA tells teen that her purse is a federal offense

Braggia

The TSA is at it again. A teen was detained because her purse contained a design of a miniature gun on it.

Sure, the purse is fugly as hell - but that isn't a crime (yet). Did they seriously need to spend more than 10 seconds determining that it wasn't an actual threat? :

http://www.stopidiocy.com/2012/01/tsa-purse/

Garlic Bread

It wasn't the TSA it was the Fashion Police

Their jurisdiction knows no boundaries

Sweeney Tom

Herp derp, obviously this is the price we pay living in OBAMA HUSSEIN'S amurrica, dorp borp [/republican response]

Brolo

Keith wrote:

It wasn't the TSA it was the Fashion Police

Their jurisdiction knows no boundaries

that purse was so not fetch

zucchini

didn't that happen a few months ago?

Here's a good way to stop idiocy: don't bring things that look like guns onto an airplane.

Garlic Bread

Rolo wrote:

Keith wrote:

It wasn't the TSA it was the Fashion Police

Their jurisdiction knows no boundaries

that purse was so not fetch

That is the ugliest effing purse I've ever seen

Sweeney Tom

If that chick was seen wearing that purse in Mean Girls, she would have been teased to suicide

Skull Man

rolo

stop trying to make fetch happen

TheySlashThem

skullsy let the man dream

WeedLordVegeta

He's just streets ahead!

SimBen

When you described it I thought like she had a picture of how to build a gun or blueprints or something in there. And like that would have sort of kinda made sense in the stupid world my brain lives in.

But this is just straight up Dumb.

Antimatter

there was a guy who wasn't allowed on a plane because he had a shirt with movie optimus prime holding a gun

Sweeney Tom

Antimatter wrote:

there was a guy who wasn't allowed on a plane because he had a shirt with movie optimus prime holding a gun

Obviously the people on the plane just don't like Michael Bay

WeedLordVegeta

Antimatter wrote:

there was a guy who wasn't allowed on a plane because he had a shirt with movie optimus prime holding a gun

They thought his iPod was Soundwave, okay?

Al_wat

TSA agent was a decepticon

Antimatter

colbert covered the incident

it was misidentified as megatron in the report and colbert pointed out that since megatron could turn INTO a gun the whole thing was understandable

Toldo

Security theater or farce?

WeedLordVegeta

well

joey slick is a convicted criminal, he shouldn't be flying anyways

Tox

zucchini wrote:

didn't that happen a few months ago?

Here's a good way to stop idiocy: don't bring things that look like guns onto an airplane.

Alternatively, the first fucking amendment

maritzac

what if your hips are lethal weapons

Javen

zucchini wrote:

didn't that happen a few months ago?

Here's a good way to stop idiocy: don't bring things that look like guns onto an airplane.

Looks an awful lot like a purse to me

Brolo

maritzac wrote:

what if your hips are lethal weapons

well

these hips don't lie

zucchini

Tox wrote:

zucchini wrote:

didn't that happen a few months ago?

Here's a good way to stop idiocy: don't bring things that look like guns onto an airplane.

Alternatively, the first fucking amendment

isnt that the second amendment?

Avraham

Toldo wrote:

Security theater or farce?

theater is what you get when the audience knows the performers are lying

RedDawn

zucchini wrote:

Tox wrote:

zucchini wrote:

didn't that happen a few months ago?

Here's a good way to stop idiocy: don't bring things that look like guns onto an airplane.

Alternatively, the first fucking amendment

isnt that the second amendment?

I think he is going for freedom of expression.

Tox

zucchini wrote:

Tox wrote:

zucchini wrote:

didn't that happen a few months ago?

Here's a good way to stop idiocy: don't bring things that look like guns onto an airplane.

Alternatively, the first fucking amendment

isnt that the second amendment?

Unless the right of the people to express themselves through fashion is magically covered under...

No, silly goose. There's nothing even remotely applicable to the second amendment here. It's not a fucking gun. It's nothing even remotely close to a gun. It's a goddamn purse with an image of a gun on it.

So if I have a folded up piece of paper in my pocket and there's a drawing of a gun on it, am I now carrying concealed?

KalTorak

i have a birthmark shaped like a sawed-off shotgun

Dead Legend

i am shocked, shocked i say, of the tsa being dumb

like me going through the san antonio airport with shaving cream and having it confiscated coming back from vegas

man, fuck you

zucchini

oh, right, freedom of speech jams. forgot about that one

Knob

the tsa did something dumb

film at 11

Croc_Clock

KalTorak wrote:

i have a birthmark shaped like a sawed-off shotgun

my penis fires projectiles at an alarming velocity

better not fly anywhere

Butters

Tox wrote:

zucchini wrote:

didn't that happen a few months ago?

Here's a good way to stop idiocy: don't bring things that look like guns onto an airplane.

Alternatively, the first fucking amendment

Not at all applicable. Air travel is not a right.

Tox

zucchini wrote:

oh, right, freedom of speech jams. forgot about that one

Yeah the supreme court has been pretty damn liberal with its application of what is considered protected forms of expression. Fashion, art, music, porn. All protected "speech."

But people don't care because they think it's okay to restrict that freedom if it means being safer. They neglect to realize A) It's not okay to do that; This doesn't really make us any safer; and C) Even if that trade-off were ever okay, and even if this did make us safer, it likely would not pass a good cost-benefit analysis.

Tox

Butters wrote:

Tox wrote:

zucchini wrote:

didn't that happen a few months ago?

Here's a good way to stop idiocy: don't bring things that look like guns onto an airplane.

Alternatively, the first fucking amendment

Not at all applicable. Air travel is not a right.

Really? Pretty sure I have the right to contract with a company to procure their services. Pretty sure that ticket is considered a contract, and pretty sure the TSA is coming in as a government agency and saying that because of how I've expressed myself, they have some ability to prevent me from using said contracted service.

Butters

Tox, stick to whining about the Panthers. You have no idea what you are talking about. TSA may be overreacting but no one's rights were trampled on here.

EDIT: And that company you contracted is subject to federal regulations which you agreed being subject to upon procuring their services.

Tox

Butters wrote:

Tox, stick to whining about the Panthers. You have no idea what you are talking about. TSA may be overreacting but no one's rights were trampled on here.

Oh so the contract was executed successfully, and the girl was able to keep her god-awful purse?

My bad, misread the article.

George Fornby Grill

Wearing my mass effect jacket this morning the TSA agent said "good morning Shepherd" to me made my day.

From my friend's facebook.

Campion

”Security checkpoints may be impacted or closed because replica weapons like toy guns, novelty grenades, fake bombs and other items appear similar to the real thing when viewed through an X-ray machine. Checkpoint closures cause significant delays, which can be avoided if passengers don’t bring these items to the airport.”

This sounds pretty reasonable.

Tox

Campion wrote:

”Security checkpoints may be impacted or closed because replica weapons like toy guns, novelty grenades, fake bombs and other items appear similar to the real thing when viewed through an X-ray machine. Checkpoint closures cause significant delays, which can be avoided if passengers don’t bring these items to the airport.”

This sounds pretty reasonable.

Perfectly reasonable!

Detaining a minor because they're carrying something that so obviously is not a weapon, and can easily be determined not to contain a weapon, for long enough that she misses her flight, is not reasonable.

The policy is reasonable, its execution in this instance was not.

mensch-o-matic

yeah if they were looking at it through an xray machine it could easily be mistaken for the real thing, and its not like it takes hours of deliberate investigation for someone to miss a flight while their purse is being checked out

Munkus Beaver

It could also be argued that seeing that might cause a panic if someone from a distance thought it was a real gun.

That's a restriction on free speech the government is allowed to do. i.e. you sure as hell couldn't board an aircraft wearing a shirt that said "I AM A TERRORIST"