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Sounds like a wise ass. He deserved what he got, IMO.

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Ditto. Another self absorbed a-hole who thinks the rules don't apply to him. Clowns like him are 75% of the reason why it takes so damn long to get through the security in the first place.

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Crazy story about being arrested for "suspicion of being under the influence:"

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=618629

And this sums it up nicely:

http://www.gocomics.com/thefifthwave/2006/11/19/

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A Flyer fan who travels carrying a rubber band ball and saves it in a bag after it is cut up? This guy has GOT to be Canadian.

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Crazy story about being arrested for "suspicion of being under the influence:"

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=618629

And this sums it up nicely:

http://www.gocomics.com/thefifthwave/2006/11/19/

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If this story is true I'd sue the people involved, of course I live in Canada and it's next to impossible to sue anyone.

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If those saying he deserved what he got are the majority of the country, I weep for America.  :rolleyes:

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Funny, I have just the opposite reaction. I weep for the America that is so quick to tolerate a selfish jerk like this who thinks his "rights" mean that he doesn't have to follow the rules or respect any authority or give a damn that he's made everyone else five minutes later.

 

Don't want security to check your bag? Don't travel via their airports.

Don't want to get tased? Don't go to the private library that you don't belong in and/or leave when asked.

Don't want to work as a concierge? Don't be a theatre major if you can't act well enough to make a career out of doing that.

Don't want to lose your Miss USA title? Don't act like Paris Hilton.

 

There's a pattern here. People are generally responsible for their own situations and this guy is no exception.

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Don't want security to check your bag?  Don't travel via their airports.

He didn't say he didn't want security checking his bag, he said he wanted it done in private, and that's his right. It's also illegal for them to search a bag without permission (excluding Xrays). Whenever I've gone through security and there's something they want to look at, they always ask me "May we look through your bag?" They don't just start rummaging through on their own.

 

Tolerance of azzholes and giving whiney "children" what they want is what if !@#$ing up this country Fez.

Could you please point out where he was being an ass and/or whiny please? He may have been a little snotty with them, but that doesn't give them the right to make up charges to arrest him. When you give a policing force all encompassing power to do whatever they want, they will not act in the right manner. Have you heard about the Stanford Prison Experiment? That's what happens when there's no checks and balances of power in place:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment

 

I realize that it's only one side to the story (his), but if it happened as described, I think TSA went way overboard (again).

 

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He didn't say he didn't want security checking his bag, he said he wanted it done in private, and that's his right.

 

Actually he said "What are you doing looking through my bag?" Pretty stupid question to ask at an airport security checkpoint, not to mention a combative one.

 

Then, they DID take him to a private room, where he continued to antagonize the security people by making comments like "quit running at the mouth". Huh? What kind of response did he expect to that?

 

Meanwhile, what kind of moron brings a giant rubber band ball through airport security (never mind what kind of moron over the age of 9 actually HAS a giant rubber band ball). Obviously such a bizarre item is going to attract the attention of security. They have a job to do and were right to question what it was. It sounds like this guy presumes that they should have known what was inside the ball or just taken his word for it. That's not how security is supposed to work. And then he chose to be hostile and difficult instead of polite and cooperative. His decision resulted in his consequences.

 

For more information on these types of circumstances, see Chris Rock's "How Not To Get Your Ass Kicked by the Police" video. A little common sense goes a long way and this guy apparently used none.

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Is she whiny and dserving of being escorted at gunpoint?

 

http://flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?...+street+journal

 

CW

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"National Guardsman approached her and asked her to follow him back to the terminal" equals "Escorted at gunpoint?" Come on now Fez...

 

Of course there are going to be isolated incidents of inappropriate actions by security types. There are lame employees at airport security just like anywhere else -- probably moreso because they won't fire the bad ones as quickly as private enterprise would. Clearly security was in the wrong in the WSJ example. But to me that is a much different situation than the jerk in the first story who brought it on himself.

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He didn't say he didn't want security checking his bag, he said he wanted it done in private, and that's his right.  It's also illegal for them to search a bag without permission (excluding Xrays).  Whenever I've gone through security and there's something they want to look at, they always ask me "May we look through your bag?"  They don't just start rummaging through on their own.

Could you please point out where he was being an ass and/or whiny please?  He may have been a little snotty with them, but that doesn't give them the right to make up charges to arrest him.  When you give a policing force all encompassing power to do whatever they want, they will not act in the right manner.  Have you heard about the Stanford Prison Experiment?  That's what happens when there's no checks and balances of power in place:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment

 

I realize that it's only one side to the story (his), but if it happened as described, I think TSA went way overboard (again).

 

CW

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One man's being snotty is one man's being an ****. :( If this is how he was recounting what he said you can probably increase the snot meter a few notches on how he really reacted towards the TSA.

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Actually he said "What are you doing looking through my bag?"  Pretty stupid question to ask at an airport security checkpoint, not to mention a combative one.

 

Then, they DID take him to a private room, where he continued to antagonize the security people by making comments like "quit running at the mouth".  Huh?  What kind of response did he expect to that?

 

Meanwhile, what kind of moron brings a giant rubber band ball through airport security (never mind what kind of moron over the age of 9 actually HAS a giant rubber band ball).  Obviously such a bizarre item is going to attract the attention of security.  They have a job to do and were right to question what it was.  It sounds like this guy presumes that they should have known what was inside the ball or just taken his word for it.  That's not how security is supposed to work.  And then he chose to be hostile and difficult instead of polite and cooperative.  His decision resulted in his consequences.

 

For more information on these types of circumstances, see Chris Rock's "How Not To Get Your Ass Kicked by the Police" video.  A little common sense goes a long way and this guy apparently used none.

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Actually no, he got arrested for supposedly being under the influence.

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He didn't say he didn't want security checking his bag, he said he wanted it done in private, and that's his right.  It's also illegal for them to search a bag without permission (excluding Xrays).  Whenever I've gone through security and there's something they want to look at, they always ask me "May we look through your bag?"  They don't just start rummaging through on their own.

Could you please point out where he was being an ass and/or whiny please?  He may have been a little snotty with them, but that doesn't give them the right to make up charges to arrest him.  When you give a policing force all encompassing power to do whatever they want, they will not act in the right manner.  Have you heard about the Stanford Prison Experiment?  That's what happens when there's no checks and balances of power in place:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment

 

I realize that it's only one side to the story (his), but if it happened as described, I think TSA went way overboard (again).

 

CW

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Come on Fez, the account is in the guys own words and he comes across as a total POS. Know the rules, follow them, answer questions without being a wiseass.

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