Comments on: Airport Insecurity.

By: GUYK

GUYK — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:46:25 +0000

Government will not really get serious about Homeland security until the public gets serious about it.

By: N5

N5 — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:09:58 +0000

Great, just great. I travel about 100 days per year. All of it out of EWR.

By: dogette

dogette — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:52:17 +0000

Not Newark, but still: I suspected such ‘issues’ when twice they pulled my 71 y.o. mother out of line, wanding her in that geriatric rotisserie format they sometimes use, while everyone else sauntered through staring at her as the dogs-howling-siren alerted repeatedly to her, um, underwire support. Was she a member of al-Brassiera? How could we be sure?

By: Tammi

Tammi — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:11:18 +0000

Lovely. Just lovely. I was SUPPOSED to fly into Newark today, but switched last week. Lovely.

I’ve never liked that airport. I’ve always said the only way they could gain population in Newark is via the airport. You can fly in but they never let you leave. Guess I had that backwards…..

By: Elisson

Elisson — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 08:08:52 +0000

They’re so busy worrying about eyewash and toothpaste, they’d miss a 20 megaton H-bomb. I saw a bin of discarded water bottles in Atlanta’s airport Friday, many of them full. How stupid is that?

The TSA needs to take a tip from El Al. Ask a lot of questions, and watch to see how people react. You need to be looking for people, not things.

By: Erica

Erica — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 22:38:51 +0000

The last couple of flights I’ve taken have been out of Newark … the last time, when I went to visit Eric, after I made it through security and was basically just waiting for my flight to board, I needed a smoke and so had to go to the front of the airport again (’twas a real ::joneser::) …

After my cigarette, they GRILLED me in security, which I had to go through again. I didn’t have problems the first time around so I figured I’d be okay an hour later (my flight was delayed four hours) …

I removed my sandals, the woman scanned me with that device, and when she wasn’t satisifed, I got more play from her than I’ve had from any guy in almost a year.

My point … right. Based on my own experience[s] (I was in Israel before that and security was even stricter) I thought security was rigorous there. I was guess I was mistaken.