American college student harassed by TSA for having Arabic flash cards
Nicholas George, a U.S. citizen from Pennsylvania, was on his way back to college when airport security officers found him carrying English-Arabic flashcards. The Transportation Security Administration questioned him, and a TSA supervisor asked him how he felt about the September 11 attacks, whether he knew “who did 9/11,” and whether he knew what language Osama bin Laden spoke. He was handcuffed and left in a locked cell for two hours before being “abusively” interrogated by two FBI agents, but was never told why he was being detained.
This type of pathetic stupidity, of course, is completely unsurprising from the TSA, being one of Americaís most embarrassing boondoggles since Prohibition.
California bureau accidentally prints 50,000 social security numbers on envelopes
California’s Department of Health Care Services accidentally printed the Social Security numbers of almost 50,000 Medi-Cal recipients on the outside of envelopes. Social Security numbers, if obtained by miscreants, can be used in identity theft.
Boy suspended for wearing rosary beads. One problem: there’s no rule against it.
In Louisville area, your 911 calls go to the wrong place.
LOUISVILLE, KY - Richard Martin was trying to get help for his two teens who were trapped inside their burning home. Martin grabbed his cell phone. He got 911 dispatchers but they were in Sellersburg, Indiana and he was placed on hold while he was being transferred back to Louisville. Martin’s call was sent to at least three locations before getting back to Louisville.
The reason for this is that the local 911 dispatchers are utterly unequipped to handle calls from mobile phones. The system is built around increasingly outmoded land lines despite the fact that in 2009, 70% of 911 calls came from cell phones. Consequently, according to MetroSafe, it happens thousands of times a year.
Portland police carry nearly identical looking fire extinguishers and pepper spray canisters. Cue the obvious.
Jan 28th, 2010 – A police officer accidentally used pepper spray instead of a fire extinguisher on a man who set himself on fire in downtown Portland. The man on fire was, of course, insane but this is not the point of this story. The reason the cop sprayed the man with pepper spray was not police megalomania as you’ve come to expect on this site. No, in the officer’s patrol car, the fire extinguisher and the pepper spray canister looked nearly identical. Think about that next time you run out of a burning building with your clothes on fire.
Incompetent Federal border patrol officer harrasses American citizen entering California.
James Suckling of Cigar Afficionado in early January, 2010, went through a hellish experience simply trying to get back into his own country. On a trip to Mexico he received as a gift three bottles of wine which he intended to bring into the United States. The customs officer, ignorant of the fact that alcohol importation restrictions are a matter of state and irked by the fact that a citizen knew more about the law than he and even had a document from California Department of Alcohol Beverage Control proving so, proceeded to search Mr. Suckling’s car and found two Cuban cigars that he had forgotten to declare.
The lugubrious officer detained Suckling for four hours, threatening him with all sorts of charges, ordering him to destroy the wine that he lawfully had brought into the country, which incidentally splashed all over him causing the “officers” to laugh gleefully. To add insult to injury, he was “fined” (aka extorted) $60 for not declaring the terror devices known as cigars.
Meanwhile, these incompetent buffoons let illegal immigrants through daily. Clearly they are aware of their own impotence and take it out on good, law-abiding citizens who have too much to lose to truly stand up for themselves.
TSA lets a man with a GUN through security. Probably too busy searching for lipstick bombs.
December 2009, Montana – security screeners at Gallatin Airport in the Bozeman area failed to spot a gun in a passenger’s luggage. Fortunately the man had no ill intentions and quickly realized what he’d done, and so alerted the authorities. All the while, unarmed passengers with cured meats from Europe or makeup foundation are harassed.
Don’t carry more than two condoms in Washington D.C. You might be charged with attempted prostitution. Police are using possession of three or more condoms as evidence of sex trafficking. In addition to the obvious infringement upon law-abiding citizens basic rights, this type of buffoonery will discourage whores from using condoms. This will then affect the johns, and while nobody cares about them, inevitably the johns are the vectors of disease to respectable society.
If biological warfare is defined by purposeful actions which spread disease amongst a target population, D.C. police are engaging in biological warfare against Americans.
Thanks Mitchell and Mary Lou!
Man unknowingly carrying live shotgun shells gets past TSA screeners. If only he’d also had some lipbalm on him.
In Madison, WI, a passenger inadvertently carried live shotgun shells onto an aircraft, which the TSA completely missed. They only became aware of the ammunition after the passenger, realizing what he’d done, mentioned it to flight attendants. The man was then interviewed and re-screened and allowed back on board. Meanwhile, those who have a little bit of harmless liquids in their possession are put through the third degree and children’s toys are confiscated.
Man sentenced to five years for hitting his brakes in front of idiot bicyclists who held up traffic.
In Los Angeles, Christopher Thomas Thompson, 60, was sentenced to five years in prison for the non-crime of hitting his brakes, causing two bicyclists who were clearly riding too close to rear-end his car. The two bicyclists were ignoring stop signs and riding abreast, impeding traffic as they were unable to ride at the minimum speeds of the street. The two bicyclists suffered moderate injuries such as a separated shoulder and broken nose. Despite the fact that Thompson only hit his brakes, he was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon.