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US woman caught with golden gun in luggage at Sydney airport jailed for a year
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 09 Dec 2024
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I hate how this article focuses solely on her stupidly and completely glosses over the glaring failure of TSA to prevent this from happening in the first place. Bottle of water is treated like a WMD, but a pistol? Nah, good to go. 'Murica...
Also, I low-key think she deserves some punishment for having such a tacky gold plated 1911 in the first place...
TSA is disgustingly ineffective at stopping contraband.
Tests regularly show they miss 90% of prohibited items. WHILE consistently misconfiscating things that are allowed.
Literally the movie theater security guard checking for people smuggling in outside food is more effective than the TSA.
Like, I don't even know how you'd be that comically incompetent, at a certain point, I think malice is the only reasonable explanation.
They had me excluded interviewed, to the point of missing a flight, because they found a phillips screwdriver bit (no screw driver) in my back back. Even reminding them that airlines exclusively do not use these screws in anything inside the cabin of importance, had no effect. I totally agree with your "comically incompetent" phrasing.
"Well gee looky here, you seem to be suspiciously well versed in 'aircraft cabin screwdrivery' usage"
Best just taze him.