If the TSA weren’t so capricious, arbitrary, and so often just flat out wrong, then people – including those at JetBlue – would be more likely to stop and question. But in /this/ universe  … “TSA want the baby off the plane? Ok, Jones; go get the baby.”

This bunch of of deviants need to be disbanded before they kill someone.

Fortunately the baby was young enough to take advantage of the (incredibly dangerous) baby-on-lap option.  The other 5 children were spread out all over the plane (apparently all of our seat assignments had also magically disappeared).  No other passenger would move.  Why people would prefer to sit next to an unaccompanied minor rather than move to another row, I will never understand.
Fortunately all the children were seasoned travelers and caused no concern to the adults around them.  But I will never forget the ticket agent looking me in the eyes with a straight face and saying that the plane was loading and I had to leave the baby in the terminal because she no longer had a seat assignment.

Laughing yet?

Flying with them is a whole different experience.

If the TSA weren’t so capricious, arbitrary, and so often just flat out wrong, then people – including those at JetBlue – would be more likely to stop and question. But as it is … “TSA want the baby off the plane? Ok, Jones; go get the baby.”

It was made clear some years back that none of the really big-time people would be on the list or stopped as this would “tip our hand” that they were considered suspicious as though somehow those people would think they were unknown or indeed would be flying under their own names (the real failing of all this “no fly” nonsense).

The entire thing is a charade and a not particularly good one as it makes the basic assumption that all evildoers are too stupid to get a fake I.D.

http://consumerist.com/2012/05/family-pulled-from-jetblue-flight-because-18-month-old-daughter-is-on-no-fly-list.html

Procedures are dictated by well paid people at The Pentagon, not the poorly paid workers you see in the airport.  I’ll also add that politicians have fought tooth and nail from allowing workers to organize, something that would give them some say in dealing with some of these poor procedures.

You’re vilifying the wrong people.

I once flew in front of a family with (I shit you not) *eight* poorly-behaved and/or crying children. 3 kids behind me, 3 kids behind me on the other side of the aisle, 2 parents w/ infants in laps in the row behind them.

Best-tasting Heinekins ever.

Do you really believe that the nearly 60,000 workers, who deal with 2 million daily air passengers, for the most part with out any incidents,  are all “clowns who couldn’t get a job at McDonalds”?

What exactly drives such classism, snobbery, and ugly arrogance?  Any of the *40* people who liked that jerky comment can feel free to pinch hit an answer as well.

Later reviews determined ‘Al-Mohamed’ was in reality ‘Elmo’.

big dumb anti-government types will always be big and dumb….

Speaking of “always dumb government agencies” the National Weather Service just warned people in Texas that heavy rains could bring flash floods today. Those stupid dummies!!!