12-30-2008, 08:40 PM
Airport security, Adequate or a facade?
Beware, I’m Piss off and this may be a long rant
Today I had to send my loving wife off to Honolulu ounce again for treatment at the Kaiser hospital on Oahu. She is disabled and in a wheelchair and has to go to Honolulu quite often for treatment. Each and every time TSA puts her thru a full and personal search of her person. Today wasn’t any different when I put her on the airplane. We arrived at the airport and Barbara [my wife] had a half empty [or half full] diet Pepsi bottle. The security people immediately took that away from her saying that it was a security risk. TSA also made her remover her foot where ounce again even though her legs were bandaged with ace wrappings {because of swelling} After giving her a through search they allowed her to pass.
This is reasonable and I agree with it all, we need all the security that we can get not just at the airports but everywhere in this nation after 9 11. After saying that here is what happened to me today at Hilo airport.
I was bringing my wife to the airport and pulled up to the handicap parking area. I stopped and was going to the Hawaiian terminal ticket area for a wheelchair when a security person said that only porters can bring wheelchairs to the curb. I said, OK I need a chair can you call a porter for me? He responded by saying that all of the porters are busy now. I responded by saying that we have a flight and that we have to check in pretty quick. In the interim a airport security guard was at my car telling my wife [in the passenger seat that she has to move it] Mind you we have a handicap plaque hanging from the rear view mirror and we are in a blue zone. OK I went and got a wheelchair [screw um] and brought it to the car and Barbara got in. I wheeled her to the curb and under the overhang because it was raining hard. I got in my car and parked it, then came back to where I left Barbara sitting in the wheelchair and proceeded to the check in counter. We made it thru the gauntlet and were now headed to see if we could pass mustard thru TSA.
I stripped myself of all metals objects, including belt buckle, change, MG3 player, glasses, car keys, and finally my Husky box cutter that I didn’t realize that I had with me and put them in a plastic tray to go thru X ray. To my surprise my box cutter came thru x ray with fling colors. I expected to have security hold it until I returned from bringing Barbara to the gate for her flight after all I was just a escort not a passenger. While I was sitting waiting for Barbara to pass security I watched TSA take make-up, mouthwash, shaving cream, and an sphere of items away from passengers for security reasons. Yet I walked into the terminal with a box cutter the tool [weapon] that the scum used to bring havoc to this nation. Go figure, half empty Pepsi, DANGER, Shoes with taps on them DANGER, belt buckles and eye glasses, very very dangerous, but box cutters no problem. Is it just me or am I all wet?
The Lack
Beware, I’m Piss off and this may be a long rant
Today I had to send my loving wife off to Honolulu ounce again for treatment at the Kaiser hospital on Oahu. She is disabled and in a wheelchair and has to go to Honolulu quite often for treatment. Each and every time TSA puts her thru a full and personal search of her person. Today wasn’t any different when I put her on the airplane. We arrived at the airport and Barbara [my wife] had a half empty [or half full] diet Pepsi bottle. The security people immediately took that away from her saying that it was a security risk. TSA also made her remover her foot where ounce again even though her legs were bandaged with ace wrappings {because of swelling} After giving her a through search they allowed her to pass.
This is reasonable and I agree with it all, we need all the security that we can get not just at the airports but everywhere in this nation after 9 11. After saying that here is what happened to me today at Hilo airport.
I was bringing my wife to the airport and pulled up to the handicap parking area. I stopped and was going to the Hawaiian terminal ticket area for a wheelchair when a security person said that only porters can bring wheelchairs to the curb. I said, OK I need a chair can you call a porter for me? He responded by saying that all of the porters are busy now. I responded by saying that we have a flight and that we have to check in pretty quick. In the interim a airport security guard was at my car telling my wife [in the passenger seat that she has to move it] Mind you we have a handicap plaque hanging from the rear view mirror and we are in a blue zone. OK I went and got a wheelchair [screw um] and brought it to the car and Barbara got in. I wheeled her to the curb and under the overhang because it was raining hard. I got in my car and parked it, then came back to where I left Barbara sitting in the wheelchair and proceeded to the check in counter. We made it thru the gauntlet and were now headed to see if we could pass mustard thru TSA.
I stripped myself of all metals objects, including belt buckle, change, MG3 player, glasses, car keys, and finally my Husky box cutter that I didn’t realize that I had with me and put them in a plastic tray to go thru X ray. To my surprise my box cutter came thru x ray with fling colors. I expected to have security hold it until I returned from bringing Barbara to the gate for her flight after all I was just a escort not a passenger. While I was sitting waiting for Barbara to pass security I watched TSA take make-up, mouthwash, shaving cream, and an sphere of items away from passengers for security reasons. Yet I walked into the terminal with a box cutter the tool [weapon] that the scum used to bring havoc to this nation. Go figure, half empty Pepsi, DANGER, Shoes with taps on them DANGER, belt buckles and eye glasses, very very dangerous, but box cutters no problem. Is it just me or am I all wet?
The Lack
