Sen. Mike Lee has introduced legislation to ABOLISH TSA
(www.lee.senate.gov)
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They made me thrown $10 jar of peanut butter in the trash in TUSCON. My husband had IBS and it’s all he could eat on the way home. I’m not a terrorist.
Damn those people. Oh I know.
Sorry, I saw them make a man throw away an unopened $50 bottle of alcohol away that he had JUST BOUGHT in duty free
But duty free is inside of TSA security…he have to leave and come back through a different terminal?
Send me a time machine with the way to go back to that exact moment (and back) & I'll ask him
lol
What happens to all these confiscated goods? Do the TSA employees or their bosses have a field day with them? If the TSA was legit, they would have set up a way to ship any eligible confiscated goods to you rather than just stealing them.
IDK ask your local police what happens to actual unclaimed valuables from local lost & founds all over. If they get angry at you for asking you know where it went
Well, at least, you know some TSA agent took home a nice jar of PB.
Last year my daughter and I were flying out of Raleigh-Durham. We are at the screening area where you have to practically disrobe to get into the secure area. I put all my stuff in the screening bins, separate them the way they insist we must, go through Xray and go around to pick up my stuff on the other side of the conveyor belt.
2 bins come out and I start putting my shoes on and putting my laptop and other stuff back in the bag when I see my purse get rerouted to the inspection belt. Now I know I had removed my gun so it can’t be that, so I’m thinking maybe I forgot to take out my knife.
The TSA Agent, a black woman with a serious attitude, asks the usual silly questions like is this your bag (Yes, I say to myself; why do you think I am standing here waiting for you to do your thing.) and is there anything in there that shouldn’t be (As if you really think I’m going to say yes) and IS there anything in there that can I get hurt with (Lady, my entire purse is a weapon. Would you like me to hit you with it?). So she pulls out my wallet. It holds credit cards, cash and change and gives me a “gotcha” look. I’m confused because while I have a couple hundred in cash, it’s nowhere near the $10,000 limit they say we cannot have. (That’s a rant for another time.)
She says, “There are coins in there.” Now I’m confused because of all the things I expected her to say, the word coins was not one of them. I just give her a stupid look because I’m sort of in shock at what I think she is accusing me of. She repeats it and I proceed to tell her I don’t understand what she means. My mind is running a thousand miles a second trying to think what “coins” could be a euphemism or metaphor for. She reaches over and unzips the coin portion of my wallet and smirks as she says, “There are coins in there.” There was probably less than a dollar in pennies, nickels, dimes and a quarter or two. So, I agree with her. Yes, they’re coins.
Now she’s getting angry with me. “I asked you if there were coins in there.” I’m still not really grasping what is her point, so I said “They’re not illegal.” By this point she is about ready to blow a gasket and starts lecturing me about having coins in my wallet and that I should have told her upfront that they were in there. I calmly (and still totally confused) tell her I’ve never been asked about having coins in my wallet before. She continues lecturing me about having coins in my wallet and I should have declared it. Oh, Okay.
She throws my wallet back in the bin and walks away. I grab my stuff and walk over to my daughter who is getting concerned because it’s taking me so long and the person detaining me is getting agitated. I tell her what transpired and she is just as dumbfounded as I was. I guess it is no longer acceptable to have money/coins in your wallet anymore and it scares some people.