Desertrose
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Mon Nov-22-10 08:13 PM
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Does anyone realize you can bypass security by flying in from a small airport? |
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Edited on Mon Nov-22-10 08:29 PM by Desertrose
I can catch a flight from (XXX) to PHX and am already behind security when I arrive for my connecting flight. The security at (XXX) airport is minimal - no scanners or patdowns.
So how ridiculous is all this scanning & groping when it is not that difficult to get around this whole mess??
How safe are we after this dog & pony show of **security procedures**?
Does anyone really still believe this isn't all about intimidation and seeing just how far we can be pushed?
Just my 2¢.
eta "connecting"
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Mon Nov-22-10 08:14 PM
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1. Holy shit, you just told the terrorists how to foil a billion dollar industry |
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er nevermind, Two and A Half Men is coming on. :popcorn:
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Mon Nov-22-10 08:16 PM
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2. But what about the poor scanner companies that have contracted |
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to build all these worthless things. :sarcasm:
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Desertrose
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Mon Nov-22-10 08:33 PM
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12. I shall get out my tiny violin and play them a sad song. |
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Mon Nov-22-10 08:18 PM
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3. general aviation is somehow exempt from any security |
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i know i fly private a lot.
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Mon Nov-22-10 08:18 PM
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4. Yes, when was the last time commercial airport security |
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was breached in the US? 9.11
When was the last time the WHOLE system was breached?
two years ago or so... small plane into the IRS office in Dallas iirc.
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Mon Nov-22-10 09:39 PM
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18. the IRS plane crash was this past February in Austin n/t |
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Mon Nov-22-10 09:55 PM
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I got my date of crash wrong...
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Mon Nov-22-10 08:20 PM
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5. Coming to a small airport near you... |
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I believe TSA has already ordered 500 more scanners to expand to even more airports.
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Mon Nov-22-10 08:22 PM
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6. crap! We *could* have kept this sweet deal if YOU had only kept your mouth shut.... |
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(only partly sarcasm, cuz we LOVE the ease of flying out of our small airport....)
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Desertrose
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Mon Nov-22-10 08:30 PM
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10. I'm sorry...I did use (XXX) for the airport..... |
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but really...this whole thing is so insane...like x-rays & crotch patting is really gonna keep us "safe"!!!:grr:
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Mon Nov-22-10 08:35 PM
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14. security "theater" - same as always. DC had humvee tanks and missile launchers |
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and men with rifles in amongst the cherry trees while Amtrak had NO security along its lines - even where it passed chemical or gas storage...
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Mon Nov-22-10 08:24 PM
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7. to be fair, I'm doing just that, but then I have to reverse the trip and come home.... |
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Edited on Mon Nov-22-10 08:25 PM by mike_c
Outbound, Sacramento to Atlanta, no scanners (but pat-downs for "chosen" passengers, as I understand it). But then back inbound, Atlanta to Sac. You bet they'll be scanning in Atlanta.
The only way to make the small airport exception work is to terminate both ends of the journey at a small, regional airport. And I'll bet a lot of them are doing occasional pat-downs anyway because they lack the expensive back-scatter scanners. The extra cost of adding the regional to the trip WOULD have the added effect of reducing traffic, LOL.
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Mon Nov-22-10 08:25 PM
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tiny in comparison and more in and out in a flash. However, Jet Blue doesn't fly into it and SW is more expensive.
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Mon Nov-22-10 08:27 PM
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Where I'm at in Laramie, I can get on and hop to DIA...it just about doubles the price of a roundtrip ticket from Denver to where ever I was going. Totally worth it. :sarcasm: :hi:
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Mon Nov-22-10 08:32 PM
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11. Actually evens out when I factor in gas, parking or shuttle etc. |
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Mon Nov-22-10 08:33 PM
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13. And yet people give it a higher priority than war, debt or unemployment! |
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Edited on Mon Nov-22-10 08:34 PM by stray cat
It looks like once again activists and media are chasing the next shimmy object
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Mon Nov-22-10 08:35 PM
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15. It is about people chasing the next shiny bouncy ball thrown by anyone instead of real thought |
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Mon Nov-22-10 08:44 PM
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16. Whoa! You're cutting into Chertoff's revenue stream with his scanners. Now that's |
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Mon Nov-22-10 08:46 PM
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17. If you can't get groped at XXX airport, then where can you??? |
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