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We need to disband the TSA.
Like, i’m not saying no security at all, but we need to disband the current TSA and go back to like. A quick x-ray of your bags and a metal detector.
When I was a kid flying alone, my parents knew I was smart and not easily freaked out by planes, so from age 8 when going to visit my grandma (an hour’s plane ride away), they wouldn’t even bother to set me up an an “unaccompanied minor”, they’d just let me fly.
Today that sounds absolutely NUTS, but you know why they could do it when I was 8?
When I was 8, they could walk me to the gate, put me on the gangway, and watch the plane take off, and know that my grandmother would be waiting at the gate on the other side to pick me up when I stepped off the plane.
Shortly after 9/11, my sister went to go visit my grandma. She was probably 10 or so. They wouldn’t let anyone go through the metal detectors anymore, you had to have a boarding pass, but if you went to the ticket counter and said, like “I’m picking up/dropping off an unaccompanied child/an elderly person/someone with disabilities” you could get a non-ticket pass to get through security and go to the gate.
Like, people forget sometimes, I think, that the full blown craziness of our current airport “security” (which is a joke and often does more harm than good - hurting or distressing innocent people and missing actual threats going through) took a while to ramp up. If you told parents in the wake of 9/11 that they would not be able to go with their unaccompanied children through security to make sure they got on the plane safely, or be there to pick them up at the gate when they arrive, there would’ve been fucking RIOTS. I remember my parents - VERY conservative and pro-Bush and pro-Patriot act and everything - being FRUSTRATED that they had to get a special pass to go with my sister through security if she was flying alone, because shouldn’t the fact that she’s a child and they’re her parent be enough to get them through?
Seriously, I know this is just one issue out of MANY that the current TSA has, but it’s just. It blows my mind.
You used to be able to go have lunch in the terminal with a friend if they had a layover in your city. You used to be able to romantically chase someone down to stop them boarding their plane when you realized you’d made a mistake turning down their offer to like. Get together or whatever. You used to be able to PUT YOUR GODDAMN CHILD ON A PLANE and be sure that on the other end someone would be right there to pick them up, or that they could just sit down right outside and wait if their pick-up person was running late.
In 2004 I had lunch in Atlanta with a former friend on my layover on the way home from Minneapolis. I didn’t have to go through security to get to her; we met at the food court.
i worked at Dulles airport both before and after 9/11, and i gotta say, it was like a complete makeover literally overnight. and not the good Queer Eye kind, either. i actually used to work for United Airlines. i was in Chicago visiting a friend when the planes hit the towers. but that’s a story for another time.
this is a story about how commercial flight stopped being a convenient, simple, often-affordable way to travel with a little style, and became the hellish nightmare it is now. flying used to be fun. flying used to be classy. used to be you took a flight because you could afford to pay a little extra to travel in style, more quickly, with less hassle than dragging yourself onto a Greyhound to sit beside Gungy Guy Who Really Needs a Tic-Tac for 18 hours. now flying is infinitely more of a hassle than any other way to travel, because you legitimately have to plan to add two or more hours to your trip just to get through security, and half of the things in your suitcase are probably going to be needlessly confiscated anyway. that snowglobe you got as a souvenir? yeah, kiss that goodbye. i’m serious. you can’t bring a snowglobe on an aircraft unless it’s in a checked bag, and if it’s in a checked bag, it’s almost definitely going to be shattered by the time you get it home. dangerous things, snowglobes.
when i got back to Dulles, my first shift back after the disaster, i was actually pulled away from my airline’s counter and told i had to go work the TSA lines. yes, you read that right. i–an airline employee completely and utterly untrained in security protocols–was being told to work the security lines and search people’s bags. because they had increased the need, but hadn’t increased the manpower. they had more than tripled the amount of security done, but had no one to actually do all the extra work, and so they literally borrow airline employees to be the hands they lacked.
and let me tell you, it was legitimately the most terrifying thing i have ever done in my life.
i have met inbound aircraft with glow sticks in blizzards. i have swept international bags with tools that change color when they detect explosives and watched the pads turn blood red. i have pried open Samsonites with crow bars only to find literal pounds of drugs. i have been physically threatened by angry people three times my size swearing at me in languages i don’t even know because they missed their flight and blame me for it. i have climbed through ventilation ducts to assist in checking machinery i am not qualified to check. i have been chased down terminal hallways by misconnected passengers and manhandled by entitled pilots who are angry they don’t get paid fifteen times as much as i do instead of fourteen times as much as i do… airline jobs are wild. you name it, i’ve probably had to face it down, and let me tell you, none of that shit was half as scary as knowing i did not know what i was looking for in someone’s luggage, and that if i missed something, i might be to blame for an entire aircraft full of people falling out of the sky on fire. i was fucking terrified, every second of every shift i had to do that, because i could not handle the idea of being responsible for a disaster because i hadn’t been properly trained what to look for.
and the worst part of it is? i learned a few months later that literally none of it is even useful. like literally none of it. the entire TSA? completely fucking useless. it’s theatrics.
this video? 10,000% accurate. i actually participated in a test of the TSA at Dulles while i worked there, about a year after 9/11 when the security guidelines had been solidified and tested and properly staffed. over the course of the day, a dozen or so of us were chosen randomly to help test the agents, along with a handful of vendors, and passengers who didn’t have significant time constraints. we were all given a “dangerous” item to try and get through security with, to see if we got stopped, and if the item was found. we were told to hide the item[s] however we preferred, on our person, or in luggage we had or were given for the exercise.
of the i believe 23 people who attempted to get through security, with anything from a pocket knife to a drill to several bags of (mock) explosive components to be mixed onboard, three of us were actually stopped and searched, and only one person was actually found to be carrying something “dangerous”. one woman hid an 8″ folding knife in her updo, and no one found it. one man divided his several bags of (mock) explosive components into several smaller bags he purchased right there at the airport, and mixed them among his personal toiletries, and no one questioned this. me? i had ten boxes of strike-anywhere matches and five real actual firecrackers concealed on my person. granted, they were small firecrackers, but anybody who’s ever blown up a mailbox knows exactly how much damage an M-80 can do. now imagine that in a giant metal tube traveling at 500mph, 29,000 feet in the air. now imagine five of them.
and the worst part is, you don’t even need a knife or explosives to wreak havoc on a damn plane. if you apply enough superglue to cotton or wool fabric, it will catch fire due to an exothermic reaction, and you can bring plenty of superglue on a plane with you, so long as it’s all less than 3oz each. i know how to bring a grown man to his knees using a ballpoint pen. thanks, aikido class! shit, you could sharpen the wire from your bra and stick it back in the cup and then later whip it out and stab somebody with it if you really wanted to. for that matter, thanks to 3D printers, do you know how easy it would be for literally anyone to print a bunch of plastic pieces and assemble a gun once they’re onboard? sure, they’d only be able to fire it once, most likely, and with probably no accuracy whatsoever, but who needs accuracy when you’re just trying to blow a hole in the fuselage?
anyone who has watched a few good heist movies or likes to write in their spare time can probably come up with two dozen completely mundane easy-to-get-thru-security-with ways to highjack a plane, tbh. not that i’m condoning such behavior, especially since there are almost always at least two air marshals on most flights these days, but the fact remains that the TSA does jack shit to stop a creative person who really wants to cause trouble.
stopping people from utilizing airports as the public buildings they were always meant to be has done exactly nothing to keep us safe, and has significantly devalued airports as an establishment. there are so many airports that actually used to bring in quite a bit of money thanks to the artwork they displayed, the intriguing architecture they employed, or even just having unique eateries. now? i mean who has time to stop and enjoy an art exhibit when their flight leaves in three hours and they’ll be spending two and a half of those hours waiting in line at security anyway?
“the terrorists can see our security. they can figure out how to get around it. so instead of trying to make airports impregnable, we should take the money we’re wasting on the TSA and spend it on things that work: intelligence, investigation, and emergency response.”
I am a retired air traffic controller.
Please do not hijack planes.
I appeal to your better nature because, sure as shit, the TSA ain’t gonna stop you.
#hey op you should read mira grant’s newsflesh books #they’re not about planes but i feel like you’ll appreciate some of their core themes anyway (via @tathrin)
I am laughing so hard, but please don’t take it personally you have no way of knowing how hard I go for Newsflesh. I have a Newsflesh tattoo. There is a character in Feedback named after me. But BLESS YOU you’re so right about it being my jam.
HUGH JACKMAN as THE WOLVERINE aka James 'Logan' Howlett (2000-2024)
X-Men (2000) X2: X-Men United (2003) X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) X-Men: First Class (2011) The Wolverine (2013) X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) Logan (2017) Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)
they kissed nasty in that technobabble room and you know it!!🫵🫵
Guys I don't think Zoro's gonna stick to the mission!
Part 2 of the Fake Wedding au. Part 1 is here and tonally very different lmao. But I did plan this scene when I was working on part 1 so for ME its not a huge tonal shift but as a reader it probably is LMAO SORRY
so we're just not gonna have a national conversation about how Boeing killed one of their own employees to keep him from talking to the press
like we're really not gonna address the fact that he died of a "self inflicted head wound" literal hours after Boeings lawyers asked him to stay an extra day. We're not gonna speak on the fact that he told his family "if I die, it wasn't suicide " before he went to go testify. None of it huh
Oh? You haven't heard? I'm not surprised with how hard the media are parrying it
THAT TOO. LMFAOOO
A 2nd Boeing whistleblower has died of MRSA 🤨‼️
Dean's family says he quickly fell into critical condition after being diagnosed with a MRSA bacterial infection. He is the second aviation
i hate when i send someone a meme in another language and they're like "uhm... translate? 😒" fucker i sent you a meme where 90% of the words have an english cognate and/or you don't need to know what they're saying to find it funny. can you at least TRY
i sent this meme to 7 people, and 4 of them asked me to translate for them. i legitimately do not think that was necessary.
this frame from the fallout tv show is so funny i nearly puked watching it
I’m using ao3 the way god intended: via 36 open semi-abandoned tabs on my phone at 2 AM the night before work
idgaf how autistic you are stop being racist😭😭
idgaf how autistic you are stop being racist😭😭
white autistics get to struggle with being racist and black autistics get murdered for existing
jesus no
This is literally my favorite tweet of all time. It’s so powerful.
She Freaken Forgor Me
(To the tune of Our House) corn dog. In the middle there’s some meat
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