TSA Agents Conspired To Grope Travelers
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Two TSA screeners have been fired for conspiring to fondle male travelers.
Police learned of the illicit activity last month when an official with the TSA’s inspector general’s office contacted them “in regards to a possible Unlawful Sexual Contact” at Denver International Airport, according to a Denver Police Department report first disclosed by CBS4.
As detailed by the TSA official, the screeners–a man and a woman–worked in tandem to facilitate the improper touching of male passengers.
When the male employee spotted a man he found “attractive,” he signaled the female employee “to indicate to the scanning computer that the party being screened is a female.”
…When the female worker was confronted by the TSA investigator, she confessed to participating in the screening ruse at least ten times. The woman also admitted that she knew her actions allowed the male screener to pat down men to whom he was attracted.
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illinoisboy1977 April 15th, 2015 at 1:32 pm
They should not only be fired, they should be charged with sexual battery and public lewdness. They should both be forced to register as sex offenders, for the rest of their lives. They betrayed the public trust.
whatthe46 April 15th, 2015 at 11:34 pm
really! i mean do people just wake up one morning and think “yeah i wanna start feeling up strangers” wtf. that’s disgusting.
Larry Schmitt April 15th, 2015 at 6:35 pm
It never ceases to amaze me what some idiots can blame on the president.
These are the first two comments at the story linked to:
Frank Obamastein · Top Commenter
Federal employees under Obama it seems are exempt from the law.
They should be charged as sex offenders.
Shalom
Reply · Like · 17 · Follow Post · Yesterday at 5:39pm
Pasquale H Gelardi · Follow · Top Commenter · Works at Retired
Obama is exempt, as he is an illegal.
Reply · Like · 7 · 22 hours ago
Larry Schmitt April 15th, 2015 at 6:35 pm
I agree. At this point, what are they protecting us from?
Warman1138 April 15th, 2015 at 7:20 pm
Precisely.
rg9rts April 16th, 2015 at 5:02 am
Gropers
CHOCOL8MILK April 15th, 2015 at 8:06 pm
Mhmm…
fancypants April 15th, 2015 at 9:43 pm
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burqa April 15th, 2015 at 11:11 pm
The only airport I’ve been grope-searched is in Rockland, Maine.
I had some fine times up there about half a dozen times on vacation, but flying out of there was not so hot.
The terminal, by the way, consists of a double-wide sitting on cinder blocks.
They grope-search everyone leaving there, and take their time about it. They slowly go over your whole body with their fingertips lightly pressing in every square inch as if they were typing.
They do it right out there where everyone can see them taking their time checking the firmness of women’s breasts. I’ve seen women there break into tears.
Robert M. Snyder April 17th, 2015 at 1:14 am
“The terminal, by the way, consists of a double-wide sitting on cinder blocks.”
I just had to see it for myself. 🙂
http://www.city-data.com/picfilesc/picc40870.php
burqa April 17th, 2015 at 10:45 pm
Behind the car on the left is a rickety wooden table made of dimensional pressure-treated lumber where you pick up your luggage.
This is the fancy side of the building. As I recall, the back side doesn’t even have a skirt on the bottom part of the trailer.
Sometimes aircraft have to circle the runway to land, or takeoffs are delayed while they get livestock off the runway. I am not making this up.
Um Cara April 15th, 2015 at 11:25 pm
I fly domestic twice a week ~ 40wks out of the year & have for the past couple years. Prior to that I flew twice a week internationally ~20wks out of the year for about a decade (with a blessed two year interval of almost no flying). Over 2 million miles w/ my primary airline. I’ve been treated respectfully by the TSA and similar authorities very, very close to 100% of the time.
Glad they weeded out these bad apples. I thank the vast majority of TSA employees for doing their bit to keep us safe! They are paid squat and from what I have seen are treated disrespectfully far, far more often than the other way around.
burqa April 15th, 2015 at 11:56 pm
That’s a lot of flying!
Usually I take 2 or 3 round trips a year, sometimes more, sometimes less.
One thing that bothers me quite a bit is I frequently see the women at the x-ray machine being distracted by male TSA employees loitering next to them and flirting. I have seen them turn their heads to reply or laugh at a bon mot while carry-on bags continued to roll through there. Twice I have reported this and informed them they had unscanned carry-on luggage in the terminal and both times they didn’t do anything about it.
Oh sure, the supervisor gets real serious looking and all, but they don’t actually do anything, even though I know they must have cameras on that part of the terminal.
Um Cara April 16th, 2015 at 12:47 am
That’s a lot of flying!
It is, and since 9/11 it has sucked 1000% more than it used to, especially when connecting through airports with different carry-on requirements (connecting through LHR on flights originating in the US, for example). The airlines have really beaten the hell out of the employee unions since then as well, with (understandably) grumpier airline employees as a result.
As for the issue you raised, folks who work together are going to develop friendships & chat with each other. Given the very low number of security incidents it appears they are doing a good enough job & given that a need for community is pretty heavily baked into our DNA (thank goodness, given what wimpy critters we are – we never would have made it without that adaptation), I’d hate to think how harsh the supervisors would have to be on the employees to prevent them from socializing on the job 100%.
I feel safer sitting in an airport or on a plane than I do riding a taxi, or walking the street in NYC or London (don’t get me wrong, I don’t feel particularly scared in any of those situations – I’m not a conservative, after all. Fright is not my default state). The TSA and other agencies are doing an excellent job.
burqa April 17th, 2015 at 10:37 pm
A few months before 9/11 and once in 1995 I was taking a Delta flight to Paris and was bumped into “Royal Ambassador First Class” from the cheap seats.
I was met by a stewardess with a tray of caviar on freshly-baked bread and champers before I even sat down.
Delta was flying in conjunction with Air France and the meal on real china was excellent. Open bar serving for the whole flight.
I used to like Pan Am.
So I agree with you on how it is now.
They chisel you right and left, the seats seem to have less legroom than ever and it has become an ordeal.
I don’t think the 2 incidents I reported were recorded as security incidents. They didn’t ask for me to sign anything about what I saw. Both times I took supervisors to the screening area and said, “Just watch for a few minutes what is going on”. We’d stand there in full view and the lollygagging would continue right in front of us.
I think the TSA is relying to some degree on bluff – having visible activity and rigamarole going on that makes it appear the system is more robust than it is to potential terrorists.
When I was running crews in construction, I was a bit of a hardass, if not a slavedriver. We were faster and did higher quality work than competing crews. When I was running them in component or modular plants, my crews set production records that were not broken. We were so good because I had everything choreographed. I had a rule that we spoke only of the job at hand until break time and that was where socializing was appropriate. There was an occasional exception, but not often.
Chitchat not only slowed production, I always considered it as making a dangerous job more dangerous. I felt this was a more professional approach to be totally focused on the business at hand.
Shoot, now that I think about it, that was the way I was trained at McDonald’s where i worked beginning in the 10th grade.
Nowadays at many places they are not about business, but seem to think work is a social occasion. It seems to me that efforts to make the jobsite more comfortable have gone overboard. There is unwarranted familiarity and everything has to be fun fun fun.
Suddenly I feel very old.
William April 15th, 2015 at 11:44 pm
Perverts
William April 15th, 2015 at 11:53 pm
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fahvel April 16th, 2015 at 3:36 am
oh W, that is absolutely brilliant!
Budda April 16th, 2015 at 8:30 am
I fly infrequently now but did a bit before retiring, only got felt up once; my “crime”? I had a cork screw in my carry on. Only problem: wished it was a gal instead of a guy.