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2014-07-16 -Land of the Free

Reporter stopped by TSA agent who didn't know District of Columbia is in US

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Posted by Fred 2014-07-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 America's finest....

jackasses.

Posted by DarthVader 2014-07-16 00:17|| 2014-07-16 00:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Sounds about right, considering our 'common core'.

Posted by borgboy 2014-07-16 00:28|| 2014-07-16 00:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Well it is in a whole other bizarre universe.

Posted by CrazyFool 2014-07-16 00:29|| 2014-07-16 00:29|| Front Page Top

#4 You mean it's not in South America? The things you can learn on Rantburg, wow!

Posted by Steven 2014-07-16 02:22|| 2014-07-16 02:22|| Front Page Top

#5 The agent's right politically. D.C. Seems to be a whole other country (from my perspective).

Snark of the day, moderator division.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2014-07-16 04:36|| 2014-07-16 04:36|| Front Page Top

#6 Seems as good a place as any to post this: Flying back from Europe last Saturday, not only did I have to turn on the laptop and cell phone, but even after going through the full body scanner both myself and my associate got full body patdowns (she called them public feel ups because her underwire and front catch (metal) aroused suspicion.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2014-07-16 07:09|| 2014-07-16 07:09|| Front Page Top

#7 Wait, the TSA agent is well on his way for a new career:

There once was a TSA Agent from Orlando,
Whose knowledge grew lesser and lesser,
It at last grew so small
He knew nothing at all,
And now he's a college professor.

Posted by Woodrow the Furry8032 2014-07-16 08:36|| 2014-07-16 08:36|| Front Page Top

#8 ...a TSA agent said Gray's District of Columbia driver's license wasn't a valid form of identification

As of the Great Invasion and decrees of the ~~judiciary~~ aristocracy, no state drivers license is a valid form of identification for showing anything but that you've been to the MVD.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-07-16 09:05|| 2014-07-16 09:05|| Front Page Top

#9 In the immortal words of Tom Dashcle, "If you want to professionalise, you've got to federalize."

Posted by OCCD 2014-07-16 09:23|| 2014-07-16 09:23|| Front Page Top

#10 Heh.

A Professor of Homeland Security,
Obsessed with our fluids' impurity,
Took his class to the Field
Where they all hid and kneeled
To make sure nothing passed in obscurity.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2014-07-16 11:30|| 2014-07-16 11:30|| Front Page Top

#11 Solution: Fire the TSA agent.
Follow up: How want this STUPID TSA agent hire in the first place?

Posted by megalonrulez 2014-07-16 12:32|| 2014-07-16 12:32|| Front Page Top

#12 Guess a relative in TSA arranged the hire.

Maybe he is only fluent in Newspeak, which naming anything after Columbus is racist and not recognized.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-07-16 12:45|| 2014-07-16 12:45|| Front Page Top

#13 How was this STUPID TSA agent hire in the first place?

Failed the drug test at MacDonalds...

Posted by Steve White 2014-07-16 12:45|| 2014-07-16 12:45|| Front Page Top

#14 Hey! I bet he knows who to vote four .. four times, that is.

Posted by Bobby 2014-07-16 13:33|| 2014-07-16 13:33|| Front Page Top

#15 Well, at least this particular TSA agent could speak English

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-07-16 13:46|| 2014-07-16 13:46|| Front Page Top

#16 Reminds me of moving from New York State to New Mexico in 1975. A few people I told of my plans asked me, why was I moving out of the USA?

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-07-16 17:40|| 2014-07-16 17:40|| Front Page Top

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