There is no method to their madness in this situation. There was no threat of this 88 year old woman hiding a bomb up her sniz to take down a plane, nor did they suspect she was a drug mule. The TSA needs to "randomly" search old white folks in order to prodoce stats which disprove accusations of racial profiling. In this case the agents were just jerks to put the woman through this. A pat down, a sniffer dog, or asking her to remove her shoes would have been fine. A strip search? gimmeabreak

As for people who don't pay their fairs on Skytrains, I too have seens all type of folks getting tickets. But this has nothing to do with TSA. Fair cops don't randomly pick people out, TSA officers do.


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: Way back when, when I used to take Greyhound to Seattle, it was
: far more common for them to investigate seniors than my friend
: with technicolor hair. In some cases the obvious target (like
: my friend) weren't the people trying to pull a fast one.
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: It's like when I see people getting fined for not having a valid
: Skytrain fare - it's never the 'sketchy' people. I always see
: business men, women with a baby in a stroller, or a couple who
: just spent a fortune on electronics (and would take up a huge
: amount of space on the train with it). These are people who
: would have the money for it but they're the ones who aren't
: paying their fare.
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: The TSA are waaaaaay overboard with their searches (go figure I
: don't want to fly anywhere) but there may be a method to the
: madness of who gets searched.
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: When I was traveling last September I was amazed at how many
: elderly white folks I saw getting "randomly" checked
: by security. It was pretty silly. I heard about it, but to see
: it first hand was something else. I'm not saying that racism is
: the way to go, but old folks who can barely walk and who didn't
: even set off the metal detector? Gimme a break.
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