Comments on: Clown Copper strip-searched at airport

By: GetSmart

GetSmart — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:57:04 +0000

They thought he was impersonating a TSA Occifer.

By: Ah_Yea

Ah_Yea — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 05:49:18 +0000

His problem was he was getting on the wrong transport.

Although he was trying to get on the Thomas the Cook Plane, he was booked on the Thomas the Steam Engine.

http://www.thomasandfriends.com/usa/index.asp?origref=

By: EvilPoliticians

EvilPoliticians — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:53:58 +0000

And what would you do? Laugh at the silly outfit and let the guy through?

The TSA is held accountable for any security issue. If they let this funny guy through without checking and he later did something, heads would roll.

I hate to fly now but I don’t envy the zero issue expectations set upon the TSA by the politicians and public.

By: Kanjy

Kanjy — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:33:05 +0000

What was he thinking, heading through airport security dressed as a policeman, carrying handcuffs, and breaking several other TSA rules? Accompanied with a hundred children for a good cause or not, you’ve got to stick to the rules.

By: ECA

ECA — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:33:47 +0000

“Bureaucrats really are such cowards”

You mean the ones that FLY in their own aircraft?? to get to town, then SIT in the back seat of a LARGE car while some one ELSE drives??

By: Improbus

Improbus — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:02:50 +0000

In the end you aren’t safe from the terrorists OR the government. England is looking more and more like the movie V for Vendetta.

By: deowll

deowll — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:21:49 +0000

I keep reading about equipment that ought to make it easy to tell if somebody is carrying something that would set off a metal detector is dangerous or not without this sort of bull.

Unless those plastic handcuffs were more robust than toys???

They have to look at everything or there is no point in looking at anything.

Exactly what the problem was with the shoes and hat after they checked it… who knows?

I’m also not clear on why soapy water in a plastic bag is better than in a bottle.

In England freedom, privacy, and rights are just words with no meaning. Everything has gone for public safety and are they safer?

Not from the government.