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TSA's Instagram features bizarre items found at checkpoints
The TSA Instagram account is such a trove of high weirdness that I am now thinking of the TSA as a publicly-funded arts organization that I contribute to with taxes and time spent in line as it scans...
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Airport security officer was alleged war criminal, arrested for lying about...
Yusuf Abdi Ali, a former Somali national army commander, is a pretty famous alleged war criminal, someone who's been profiled on major news media, deported from Canada over a failed claim of refugee...
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Traveler sues TSA for missed flight
Although Minneapolis man Hooman Nikizad arrived at the airport two hours early, as recommended, his hour-and-a-half wait in the security line made him miss his flight. He then had to buy a second...
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Paralyzed, partially deaf-blind teen with brain tumor beaten bloody by TSA
Hannah Cohen is a 19 year old who is being treated for a brain tumor at Memphis's St Jude's Hospital, who is "partially deaf, blind in one eye, paralyzed, and easily confused" -- and who was subjected...
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Congress: TSA is worst place to work in USG, nearly half of employees cited...
The House Homeland Security Committee Majority Staff Report has just published its investigation on aviation security, and the title really tells you everything you need to know: MISCONDUCT AT TSA...
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TSA approves having a mummified head as your carry-on luggage, with reservations
As long as it is "properly packaged, labeled and declared," one may take Victorian philosopher Jeremy Bentham's mummified head onto your flight. The TSA added that travelers may simply snap a picture...
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Transparent suitcase
Not that it would stop the TSA from rifling through your clothes, but I do think the transparency of Crumpler's Vis-A-Vis clear suitcase makes a fun statement. The clear polycarbonate trunk is 46.5cm...
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Aviation's war on moisture turns ten today
Ten years ago, British domestic security claimed to have caught a terrorist cell that had planned to blow up airplanes with a gel they'd carry on in a Gatorade bottle and detonate with an Ipod. (moreā¦)
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Judge Reinhold arrested at Dallas airport for refusing a second TSA screening
Actor Judge Reinhold was flying out of Dallas Love Field on Thursday and his bag set off an "alarm" on a TSA scanner, so security personnel demanded to pat Reinhold down; Reinhold objected that he'd...
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Internal TSA files reveal that they have no evidence the $1B "behavioral...
In 2013, the TSA blew $1B on "behavioral detection," which would allegedly train agents to spot potential terrorists by looking for a hilariously stupid list of "tells" including "a bobbing adam's...
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80-year-old lady surprised when TSA finds sword inside her walking cane
The AP reports that an 80-year-old South Carolina woman had no idea her cane contained a sword until she attempted to board a plane and it was inspected by TSA staff. News outlets report that...
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TSA's new "pat-downs" are so invasive, airports are pre-emptively warning...
If the TSA thinks that you're suspicious -- or if you opt out of the "optional" full-body scanner -- you get a junk-touching "secondary screening" in which the screeners "pat you down" by rubbing the...
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TSA confirms miniature magic warhammers not OK on planes
"Can I bring my rechargable power bank the shape of the greatest orc warriors Orgrim's Doomhammer on a plane?" asks Itaku on Twitter. "We're glad you asked," replies AskTSA, an official account of the...
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The story of the TSA's oddly entertaining Instagram account
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA)'s Instagram account is a real hoot, featuring weird, ridiculous, and sometimes helpful images of items that are prohibited and permitted to bring on...
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That time the TSA started screening all paper products separately
Akal Security Inc is the TSA contractor that screens passengers at Kansas City International Airport under a $108m/5 year contract; earlier this month they began abruptly scanning all paper products...
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When the TSA got suspicious of a scientist's 3D-printed mouse penis
Sometimes, in the course of his work, University of Florida molecular geneticist Martin Cohn must travel with unusual items like a 3D-printed mouse penis. Similarly, University of Massachusetts...
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TSA to require some electronics out of bags at 10 U.S. airports starting...
The TSA will be testing out expanded screening for carry-on electronics larger than a phone and certain food items at selected airports around the country. The new rules come just two days after a...
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LAX: a new online tragicomedy is "a mash-up of Locke and Girls"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1RkNDbneEg Paul Bennun writes, "The incomparable Sarah Warren, (creator of feminist slapstick spy caper MLE) has launched a brand new tragicomedy web series called LAX...
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After travel industry outcry, TSA will end Trump-era ban on laptops for...
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration today said it was lifting a ban on carry-on electronics such as laptops for passengers on Saudi Arabian Airlines flights headed to the U.S.. This is the...
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Saudi Airlines confirms that American laptop ban on U.S.-bound flights from...
The U.S. government's ban on laptops and other large electronic devices in the cabins of flights from Saudi Arabia to the United States has been lifted, Saudi Arabian Airlines confirmed today. (moreā¦)
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