Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The TSA has spent $1 billion on training airport security screeners to read body language. Trouble is, critics charges there’s no evidence that the training prevented a single act of terrorism, the New York Times reports. Scientific experiments show that people are terrible at spotting liars, and law enforcement is no exception….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Paramedics and others took too long to respond to last year’s shooting rampage at the Los Angeles International Airport, according to an independent report. The report indicates that paramedics took 33 minutes to get to Transportation Security Agency officer Gerardo Hernandez, 39, who was killed in the shooting. He died between two…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The TSA caused controversy by seizing a woman’s expensive bottle of perfume because it is shaped like a grenade, Fox News reports. Country music promoter Lois Lewis was stopped by TSA agents and then investigated after after trying to bring her 2-ounce bottle of Jimmy Choo perfume in her carryon at Phoenix’s…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com What are the most efficient and headache-inducing airport checkpoints in the nation? The USA Today sought to find out by asking frequent flyers to voluntarily rate checkpoints for efficiency. The results were subjective and varied by traveler. Some targeted Orlando, Los Angeles and Raleigh, NC, as the least efficient airport checkpoint. One…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com There’s good news for travelers: They can expedite the slow screening process at airports. The bad news: They’ll have to give up a set of their fingerprints to ensure they are the person they say they are, the Chicago Tribune reports. But the FBI said there are no privacy concerns because law…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com “Girls” star and creator Lena Dunham was detained by the TSA recently for possessing what she considered a “cute little cat” at Los Angeles International Airport, Today reports. Dunham was carrying a “self-defense key chain.” “It’s shaped like a cat — it goes over your knuckles,” she told Seth Meyers on “Late…
Wausau Daily Herald Editorial Board For years, the Transportation Security Administration has “managed” the risk of in-flight terror attacks by throwing every one of us — from geriatrics to infants in strollers — into the same category. Call it “one size fits no one.” Finally, that policy is changing. The TSA is dramatically expanding a…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A recently fired TSA supervisor at Charlotte Douglas Airport is accused for the third time of stealing from travelers. WSOC TV reports that Angel Caban is under fire against after he was terminated last month following allegations that he stole gift cards and iPads from the North Carolina’s airport lost and found….
