[monkeypizza]

I hate the TSA as much as anyone, but this type of gallows humor is pretty common - in private, it's common for doctors to joke about dying patients, etc, because keeping things deathly serious all the time is emotionally impossible.

[klausa]

Yes, but that's the key - in private. There are jokes I use with my friends, that I would NEVER use in public situation.

[mrhyperpenguin]

But as you said yourself, there are situations in which this 'humor' is appropriate. The official blog of a government agency is definitely not the place. I would expect this type of language from a no-name blog by a person with the grammar of 16 year-old.

[einhverfr]

Nah, the humor wasn't the scary part. Their trust in pre-deployment testing and so forth..... That was the scary part....

[akl]

Are you sure that's a reasonable comparison?