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Quoting PlaneInsomniac (Thread starter): Can this even be real? |
Quoting KC135TopBoom (Reply 1): This TSA troll needs to be fired. |
Quoting koruman (Reply 4): If its any consolation, "ashes" are just the ground remains of multiple people's bones which come out of the cremulator. Almost certainly hardly any of the material dropped will have come from the grandfather in question. |
Quoting KC135TopBoom (Reply 1): Napilitano needs to go to this family and personally apoligize for the TSA and DHS. |
Quoting PlaneInsomniac (Thread starter): Can this even be real? |
Quoting flyingturtle (Reply 7): The urn actually contains to a very large extent the ashes (and ground bones) from the specific person. Before cremation, a little stone bearing an individual number is put into the cask, and this stone is also buried with the ashes. |
Quoting gizmonc (Reply 10): TSA group who mans the STL |
Quoting PlaneInsomniac (Thread starter): Can this even be real? According to this report, a TSA agent opened jar labelled "Human Remains", stirred it with her finger, and spilled much of it on the floor - against the passenger's warnings and in violation of TSA policy. She then laughed at the passenger when he frantically tried to gather his grandfather's ashes from the terminal floor: |
Quoting kgaiflyer (Reply 12): I can't imagine where remains are returned to a client as loose dust. [Edit] Relatives gave him a jar sealed with masking tape???? That's nasty. No wonder the TSA called his bluff. |
Quoting kgaiflyer (Reply 12): Before my dad passed away in 1961, he requested that he be cremated and his ashes "tossed to the four winds." The local department of health had different ideas on the matter |
Quoting falstaff (Reply 13): I am sure the city wouldn't have liked it, but dad and I just walked across the bridge and when nobody was looking tossed the urn in the river. |
Quoting g500 (Reply 9): Quoting PlaneInsomniac (Thread starter): Can this even be real? we're talking about TSA here and you're asking if this "can be real" I'm a corporate pilot, and TSA is the best thing that's ever happened for our industry |
Quoting 135mech (Reply 20): So...are we missing something here? Are you defending her actions and complete disregard for the respect of the deceased and the man carrying the remains? Or, are you just defending the need for the TSA? |
Quoting Maverick623 (Reply 21): You missed something.... the word corporate. TSA has driven many of his passengers away from airlines, as planes with less than 70 seats (IIRC) do not need to be screened (nor do their passengers). Also, a link was posted elsewhere, where TSA is COMPLETELY DENYING THE INCIDENT EVER HAPPENED. |
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Quoting 57AZ (Reply 24): |
Quoting zippyjet (Reply 25): Though far from perfect, what's the alternative? |
Quoting zippyjet (Reply 25): The private companies (I'm not going to name names) but, a lot of the people they hire couldn't get a job with any of the airlines. |
Quoting zippyjet (Reply 25): They tend to be: 1. Police wannabees, 2. lazy, 3. married to their cell phones and texting. 4. Have I Pod buds blasting hip hop and other awful stuff they call music and taking up space in the terminal piling up the Z's and some have even messed with the thermostats cranking them up to 80 and 90 degrees while watching the plethora of never ending NBA playoff games and cartoon network. |
Quoting Zudnic (Reply 16): Just another example of the absurdity of TSA rules. If you want to get a dangerous powder onto an airplane, label it "human remains." Billions of dollars in Security Theater circumvented. |
Quoting 57AZ (Reply 24): Amtrak actually threw TSA out of the Savannah, Georgia passenger station after they tried their nonsense there |
Quoting skywaymanaz (Reply 28): Sadly it's amazing how you give someone a badge and an otherwise normal person turns into Cartman on South Park. |
Quoting Maverick623 (Reply 29): 1939. |
Quoting Maverick623 (Reply 26): Funny, you just described what we have now. |
Quoting flyingturtle (Reply 30): Back to the topic: We all agree that the TSA either needs an overhaul or an abolishment. |
Quoting vegas005 (Reply 31): You want to see screening done correctly then come to the Zurich airport. I have said it numerous times, but Zurich is fast, professional, courteous and thorough. |
Quoting zippyjet (Reply 33): And believe it or not, the private ones at least at BWI make the TSA look good and that's God awful! |
Quoting XT6Wagon (Reply 6): Quoting KC135TopBoom (Reply 1):This TSA troll needs to be fired. Fired? She committed a crime. She should have left in the back of a patrol car with all security tape copies already properly collected. |
Quoting g500 (Reply 9): Quoting PlaneInsomniac (Thread starter):Can this even be real? we're talking about TSA here and you're asking if this "can be real" I'm a corporate pilot, and TSA is the best thing that's ever happened for our industry |
Quoting gizmonc (Reply 10): I have been in the airline industry for over 22 years and personally I think TSA is a F __CKING JOKE. |
Quoting zippyjet (Reply 23): TSA officers are human just like us so that means they too have fetishes. |
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Quoting KC135TopBoom (Reply 35): Well General Aviation, which includes corproate flying is not subjected to most ot the TSA rules or CFR Title 14 part 1542. |
Quoting skywaymanaz (Reply 36): Of course the bad thing about having screeners who speak English is they will yell at you for very little reason |