{"id":275,"date":"2008-08-21T16:26:08","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T14:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/?p=275"},"modified":"2008-08-21T16:26:08","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T14:26:08","slug":"another-tsa-moron-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=275","title":{"rendered":"Another TSA Moron Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" title=\"TSA Stupidity\" src=\"http:\/\/www.upgradetravelbetter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/tsa-please-see-cashier.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"120\" \/>We interrupt this serious consideration of our future presidents with Yet Another story of a stupid (and yet unnamed) TSA employee.\u00a0 In this case, an inspector attempted to break into planes on the tarmac.\u00a0 According to one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/travel\/chi-tsa-20-aug20,0,6269325.story\">report<\/a>, the inspector \u201cbreached\u201d seven out of nine planes.\u00a0 But in process he may have damaged sensitive avionics.\u00a0 This caused a delay O&#8217;Hare International Airport while the airline took corrective measures.\u00a0 This was stupid but not tragic because nobody was hurt\u2013 this time.\u00a0 It <strong>could<\/strong> have been both stupid and tragic had the inspector touched something he shouldn&#8217;t have, broken something, and contributed to the loss of life.\u00a0 Wouldn&#8217;t <strong>that<\/strong> have been rich?<\/p>\n<p>The really stupid part is that it is not a secret that the overwhelming majority of effort to secure airplanes on the tarmac is devoted to keeping the wrong people off of the tarmac in the first place.\u00a0 That is largely not the responsibility of the airline, but that of the airport and the TSA.\u00a0 Once the inspector was on the tarmac and unsupervised, the game should have ended.\u00a0 It didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We interrupt this serious consideration of our future presidents with Yet Another story of a stupid (and yet unnamed) TSA employee.\u00a0 In this case, an inspector attempted to break into planes on the tarmac.\u00a0 According to one report, the inspector \u201cbreached\u201d seven out of nine planes.\u00a0 But in process he may have damaged sensitive avionics.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=275\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Another TSA Moron Story&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[136,137],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-stupid-stuff","tag-morons","tag-tsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}