Thank you! This is my question too. TSA has multiple checkpoints open at any given time, and I refuse to excuse the breach here, but I can at least understand how it happened. However there’s only one gangway. In addition, how did they manage to get on the plane and not select a taken seat which would have raised…

I think the gate agents actually enjoy when something off nominal happens, adds some spice to the day

I can imagine someone using an old ticket for the same airline, having it rejected, but the gate agent doesn’t want to make a stink and assumes it’s a glitch in their system and lets the person on. It’s even more imaginable if the flight is already delayed and they’re hurrying people onto the plane.

That being said,…

Another unanswered question is, how did they know to meet her when she arrived in LAX?

Getting past the security checkpoint is one thing, but how the hell do you get on the plane without a ticket? I mean they scan all of the boarding passes on your way onto the plane.

I could see finding a way around a bored or indifferent TSA agent.  But how do you get on the plane without a boarding pass??

Because they provide only the illusion of security and not the actuality of security. Think about it, they are people whose only aim is to cash a paycheck with the least amount of work, and if they fuck up then the people who pay the price for their laxity is not them, safe on the ground, but those in their air. In…

Most of the security is theatre. Someone who’s determined to get on board for a nefarious reason will more than likely manage to do it with some planning. Otherwise, it’s remarkable where you can go if you just look confident enough, as though you belong there. I know that directly from some of my previous work…

The TSA is pretty much just a waste of money that only inconveniences people and can’t even do its own job at this point.

yeah i used to commute quite a bit - i really came to hate the 6speed -the two track days a year i did were simply not worth it for the 300 other days a year stuck in bumper to bumper traffic. i moved into a luxo barge with a 10 speed auto, and i love it.

I’m not surprised. I think a lot of old Jalopnik readers don’t realize just how much the tide has turned against manual transmissions among enthusiasts. It seems like the moment someone drives a sporty car with a great automatic, they see how inferior manuals are.

I’m guessing that puddle of drool is from a warped valve cover gasket.

It’s kind of ugly, that’s why.

To be fair, my interest in BMW died when the jumped the Naked Mole Rat a couple years back. I don’t car if the car has 5 pedals and 86 gears, I’m not going to buy something that looks like this.

I’m not a high horsepower guy, so Vipers never appealed to me for that reason, but from a pure aesthetic perspective I love the later, coupes, especially in blue with a white racing stripe.

I think the idea of a supercar was much different in the 90s, and I don't think this iteration of the viper was trying to be one.

It was meant to be the closest thing to a big-block/fat-fenders Cobra they could build under early 90s smog and safety rules. The goal was a heady cocktail of adrenaline and testosterone; refinement even by contemporary standards, let alone today’s, was not really part of the formula.

Lmao it’s a fuckin’ Viper, it’s supposed to be ridiculous, and the interior should remind you that you’re in a batshit machine that will try to murder you

I’d personally prefer the roadster, but for $26k, if everything works, I can live with it. NP

Hopefully there’s a crashed Viper in a boneyard somewhere that can donate its interior. Because that one is hideous.