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by izacus 4363 days ago
Well, good thing that after long days of traveling we never arrive at the airport with any of our electronic devices empty -_-

Also... does anyone know how many people were caught trying to smuggle explosives on a plain until now?

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> does anyone know how many people were caught trying to smuggle explosives on a plain until now?

I believe exactly 0 caught by TSA. Given their job performance they should have all been fired by now and the department closed.

FBI and even regular passengers have in 10 years or so caught and stopped some terrorists. TSA hasn't claimed a single person they stopped red-handed with a bomb.

All they did was waste years and years of productive time, abused, molested people, stole goods expensive and cheap alike and so on.

It is a self-perpetuating cancer (not unlike any other large organization) that now that it has been created will come up with further excuses to stay in business.

At least FBI is smart enough once a while to find some feeble minded brain-washable idiot and entrap him (groom him) to make him buy chemicals for explosives and then claim "oh look we have prevented deh terrorism!" and throw the idiot in prison for life.

TSA isn't even competent to do those false flag like activities. It is a pure cancer spreading and consuming resources.

The assumption is all hollywood style bomb plots.

The somewhat more realistic problem is steal one of the zillions of fake plastic cellphones from zillions of cell phone retail stores, fill it with coke (the sniffing kind, not the drinking kind) and carry it across. Well, the drug sniffing dogs might get agitated about that. Prescription pills, perhaps.