It's not enough they molest you, and look at your naked body in their scanners. Even more reason for me never to fly through America.

Never mind fired, have they been charged? "Theft as a servant" (meaning employee) is a specific charge in my country which is a lot more serious than regular thievery.

Who's watching the watchers!!!???

As bad as it is, this video doesn't apply to normal passengers who keep even $500 of cash in their luggage.

"All the luggage made it past TSA safely."

It only applies to people who leave behind valuable items.

I fly to Phoenix from Canada every year, and do a ton of shopping because the goods are so cheap there in comparison. Every year one item goes missing. Usually something minor and not personal, but every year it happens.

Whether or not somebody absentmindedly leaves something behind is irrelevant, the schmuck still stole someones property, and then tries to blame it on his wife when he gets caught red handed. I can only hope she divorces his ass after that.
>> ^chilaxe:

As bad as it is, this video doesn't apply to normal passengers who keep even $500 of cash in their luggage.
"All the luggage made it past TSA safely."
It only applies to people who leave behind valuable items.

There's no question it's corrupt and illegal. Still, this doesn't really demonstrate that it's a wide spread problem. A sample size of 10 is not statistically meaningful. That's always the problem with these kind of reports. Now, if ABC did this 100 times that would be totally interesting and useful journalism.

It's not just a policy, it's a crime. They should all be prosecuted, not just fired.

I get that he stole but the ripple of smugness about a man losing his job doesn't exactly make the reporter seem like a hero either.

>> ^messenger:

It's not enough they molest you, and look at your naked body in their scanners. Even more reason for me never to fly through America.


Now now, the massage is quite nice.

>> ^Gethrj:

I get that he stole but the ripple of smugness about a man losing his job doesn't exactly make the reporter seem like a hero either.


Agreed, the smugness was a huge turnoff, but at the same time as bad as I felt about the guy losing his job, he did steal. It's a lose-lose story here.

>> ^chilaxe:

As bad as it is, this video doesn't apply to normal passengers who keep even $500 of cash in their luggage.
"All the luggage made it past TSA safely."
It only applies to people who leave behind valuable items.


Incorrect. While this particular study was focused on whether TSA agents would be willing to steal items that were left behind, it did reveal dishonesty within TSA which applies to any situation where they are handling your property. There are documented cases of TSA agents stealing items from luggage, not just items that were left behind. Not sure what you're trying to do here - defend TSA? Say that it's ok to take an iPad now and then if someone leaves it behind?

Obviously this isn't a terribly useful sample size, but the fact that they got evidence of wrong-doing so easily is still kind of telling. It's hard to imagine they just got lucky, and it's very hard to imagine that the TSA has good procedures in place to prevent this kind of abuse.

Where's their managers? It's easy to point the finger at the guy caught red-handed. But they appear to have picked Orlando because it's had a rash of these problems.

Unless Ramirez has more than just that Ipad in his house, then it's not just him at Orlando stealing shit and that means the managers and/or supervisors need to be fired.

What are their hiring practices? Where are the safeguards to ensure they're not coming home with more than what they brought with them. It's easy to blame the worker, but the supervisors aren't blameless either.

If the TSA are amassing this magnitude of complaints, that's not a worker problem, that's a management problem.