Three Stooges Administration?

Although their primary job is provide security for American air travelers, the Transportation Security Administration sometimes has a funny way of showing it. In it's most recent Three Stooges moment, a TSA agent at New York's Kennedy Airport, while goofing off with a can of pepper spray, released it's hot sauce into the faces of five fellow agents. As a result, all six were sent to a nearby hospital.

Are these guys trying to protect us or win a spot on Joe Biden's Def Comedy Jam???

Looking through recent news articles, here are some other noteworthy accomplishments of the TSA:

• Last May, a New Jersey family was kicked off a flight in Fort Lauderdale after it was discovered that one of the family members was on the TSA's no-fly list. Good work, you say? Well, the "person of interest" in this case was the family's 18-month-old daughter. Both the TSA and the airline (Jet-Blue) pointed fingers at each other for the mishap. Will the real idiot please stand up!
• In another incident last June at New York's JFK airport, two planes were called back and hundreds of passengers were marched through a second security screening after in was discovered that a TSA agent forgot to plug in his metal detector. Oh, and the airport also had to be evacuated. 
• Even after a passenger in Detroit alerted a TSA agent of his urostomy bag, the over-aggressive agent still managed to rupture the bag, causing urine to spill all over the passenger.
• A fake bomb was recently ushered undetected past security screeners in Newark, NJ. That should make us all feel real safe, huh?
• Last year, at New York's La Guardia Airport, an 89-year-old wheelchair bound man was subjected to a full-monty TSA pat-down. The man happened to be former National Security Adviser and Secretary of State and Nobel Peace prize winner, Henry Kissenger. In the TSA's defense, it was reported that none of the agents seemed to know who Kissenger was. Why am I not surprised?
• A TSA agent in San Francisco was so concerned about the "bulge" in one passenger's groin area that he felt compelled to apply powder to area (possibly to test for explosives?). It turns out that the suspicious item was the man's penis. 
• Agents at LAX declared a security breach after they confused a woman's insulin pump for a gun.
• In an effort to show they're serious about keeping us safe, the TSA recently announced that small knives will soon be allowed on board the plane.

Aside from these recurring displays of humor and incompetency  TSA agents have also been busted on numerous occasions of stealing items from passengers. So, while we're getting groped by one agent, we have to worry his partner lifting our wallet or laptop. Since the airport screening areas are under normally heavy video surveillance, these boneheads are usually caught without too much effort. Perhaps the TSA might want to do a better job of screening their own employees.

Flying out of midwest airport several years ago, I saw the "interrogation" of woman who looked to be about 95 years old. The woman, who could barely stand on her own, looked absolutely terrified. Not only did it seem totally unnecessary, the whole image appeared to be surreal. 

To be fair, there are probably some decent TSA agents out there somewhere. But until these guys can tell the difference between a man's dick and a handgun, they're going to have a really hard time gaining the public's trust.

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