Note: TSA pays about $23/hour in WA.  That’s not much above the minimum wage in the City of SeaTac, where SeaTac Airport is.  The TSA is not exactly attracting the best and the brightest.

Maybe 5 years after 9/11, I was listening to a podcast or radio show or a radio show that is also available as a podcast (I forget which), and one of the guests called TSA security theater.  He described it as like Kabuki.  There are elaborate costumes, ritualized movements, and every once in a while someone yells. …

While I am not saying they were forward thinking with how it is implemented nor knowing fully how it works. They have already touched on the topic of things being initiated at check-in, such as being granted access to the TSA Precheck lane, facial recognition, etc. A system like that could theoretically track a…

I suspect, looking at the various info, the wait would remain the same/longer for standard and the value of precheck/global entry would remain since they would still be the less invasive tools. Got to keep that path open so they can keep their numbers up for background check staff and such.

I just flew last week as well, and the ratio was like that, but the other way around. Much shorter lines for TSA Pre-Check, both coming and going.

How did they know we could not cause havoc with 3.4oz of liquid. It requires 3.5 oz of liquid for devastation!

I agree. The other thing to consider is that some people struggle to make it through the TSA checkpointeven with a TSA agent barking commands and telling them how to do it. Now imagine those same people trying to do it on their own...good luck. 

Ssssshhhhh!! I like the short TSA Pre lines.

I was flying last weekend, and put all my shit into bins and was stepping over to the body scanner. Except the TSA employee kept yelling at me “STAY WITH YOUR BAGS”. So I sit there and watch the entirety of the adjacent lane line up for the body scanner, and not stay with their bags. Whenever I finally get through,…

When I flew a lot in 2004, I would be in one airport that didn’t make me take my shoes off, then, on my return flight that airport would. I always said, if it’s a valid procedure, then it should be done everywhere.

The TSA is designed to be noticeable, intrusive, and cumbersome, as a feature and not a bug. If it ain’t creating a whole hassle, then how will the public NOTICE the government is DOING SOMETHING about that terrorism stuff? It is pure theater like that. It is meant to be in your face, and down your pants, by design.

TSA, as useful as a concrete life jacket sonc 2002. 

The update from the PD makes no sense. It won’t stop race debris any more than the current barrier, it’s just a film. Also it doesn’t add any height, so it won’t stop pedestrians from hucking anything onto the race track.

Y’all realize that MANY of the owner’s of Ferrari GTOs actually vintage race them, right? You literally can’t “total” a $40M car, so why not? They even crash them occasionally - this was 2017 at the Goodwood Revival:

The Dunlop Bridge at LeMans has siding up so you cannot see the track. There are actually some seems in it, such that from the inside you can slightly see out from the right angles, but they have crazy sharp bird-spikes mounted inside to discourage you from loitering. And the constant flow of people, and the culture…

At the Isle of Man TT you can cross the bridge near the startline and watch the racers go by. You are not allowed to stop though, you have to keep walking.

The bridge is actually 4(?) bridges on that intersection that connect all 4 corners of the Strip in that part. Since the track will be closed, the bridge has to stay open if you want people to cross the streets. The other footbridge is at Caesars and that’s fucking far as shit.

Because it being unblocked does not prohibit the actual event from taking place. It’s also a public thoroughfare, so you can’t just take that away from the people. I totally get it if one of the hotels owned it and they wanted to limit access, or sell it, but this is a public bridge. This is basically government doing…

I mean, why can’t they just block pedestrian access to the bridges while the race is actively going on?  The bridges are closed for what, 2-3 hours?

All I see is you HAVE to be out of your effing mind, a true glutton for punishment, to be in Vegas for this fustercluck.