‘Thousands Stealing Anything They Can’
“The result has been what you expect when you take people choosing between a life of low-level crime and life on the dole and give them access to private property. They are stealing everything they can carry. Just the other day they robbed the widow of loveable baseball icon Don Zimmer.
“The widow of a baseball icon was heartbroken Friday night over a missing jersey that she believes was stolen.
“Last month, the Yankees gave Soot Zimmer a jersey in honor of her late husband, Don Zimmer, who served as bench coach for the team for several years.
“But the jersey never made it back to Florida with Soot Zimmer, and she thinks a Transportation Security Administration agent stole it from her luggage.”
“Every year the TSA settles tens of thousands of cases where employees have stolen property from bags or damaged property trying to steal it. Millions of dollars in claims are settled each year. If the TSA were run by Italians, the Feds would hit them with a RICO charge.”
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Wednesday, July 8, 2015
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Coming to an airport near you?
“Fed up with having to queue for hours at passport control at Heathrow on returning from holiday?
“Then here’s the good news: there is a new way to jump the line and leave the airport faster. The bad news is that the new way to jump the queue is to get yourself arrested for taking part in a slow hand-clap in the arrivals hall, resulting in your being carted off by your collar in a Black Maria to a police station; with luck quite near your home.
“Immigration authorities have grown so rattled by outbreaks of slow hand-clapping among frustrated travelers that they have told police to issue cautions, and even to make arrests, if they sense that the anger might suddenly boil over into a dangerous spasm of civil disobedience.
“Of course the other option of actually doing their jobs quickly and efficiently isn't a possibility.”
http://www.anenglishmanscastle.com/
(OK, it is England, but you know how things English have a way of journeying across the pond – language, representative government, the Beatles …)
“Then here’s the good news: there is a new way to jump the line and leave the airport faster. The bad news is that the new way to jump the queue is to get yourself arrested for taking part in a slow hand-clap in the arrivals hall, resulting in your being carted off by your collar in a Black Maria to a police station; with luck quite near your home.
“Immigration authorities have grown so rattled by outbreaks of slow hand-clapping among frustrated travelers that they have told police to issue cautions, and even to make arrests, if they sense that the anger might suddenly boil over into a dangerous spasm of civil disobedience.
“Of course the other option of actually doing their jobs quickly and efficiently isn't a possibility.”
http://www.anenglishmanscastle.com/
(OK, it is England, but you know how things English have a way of journeying across the pond – language, representative government, the Beatles …)
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