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Security breach at National Airport
Posted by: TheMeeper ()
Date: January 23, 2008 08:36AM

Kudos to the TSA for letting someone pass thru security with a handgun... at an airport where one would expect security to be highly trained and extra vigilant...

I just wonder how often this happens at other airports. Yikes.

http://www.wtop.com/?sid=1331379

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Re: Security breach at National Airport
Posted by: Larry ()
Date: January 23, 2008 11:15AM

THat is pretty bad. They just let anybody screen those items? Why is it up to 1 monkey to save hundreds of lives

What if the guy didnt come back to say he had a gun?

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Re: Security breach at National Airport
Posted by: trogdor! ()
Date: January 23, 2008 12:57PM

Larry Wrote:
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> THat is pretty bad. They just let anybody screen
> those items? Why is it up to 1 monkey to save
> hundreds of lives
>
> What if the guy didnt come back to say he had a
> gun?

Clearly this guy was not a threat. However, it should be clear to anyone paying attention that the 'security' the government provides you is nothing but smoke and mirrors.

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Re: Security breach at National Airport
Posted by: Adam ()
Date: January 23, 2008 02:10PM

Actually when landing into National, if anyone gets up when decending to the airport, they are authroized to devert the plane. I always fly from national.

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Re: Security breach at National Airport
Posted by: 496 ()
Date: January 23, 2008 02:21PM

Hey Douche bags, Its Reagan national , not national. Get it right idiots.

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Re: Security breach at National Airport
Posted by: TheMeeper ()
Date: January 23, 2008 02:22PM

Adam Wrote:
> anyone gets up when decending to the airport, they are authroized to devert the plane.

I guess now they'll need to figure out what they should do if the person getting up has a gun on them!

(i always try to fly out of national too... much better airport than that monstrosity out to the west)

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Re: Security breach at National Airport
Posted by: ITRADE ()
Date: January 23, 2008 02:23PM

Is that rule still in effect? They USED to make the announcement 30 minutes out, but in the dozen or 18 times that I've flown into DCA in the past year I haven't heard it. I guess I was too busy hitting on the hottie in the next seat over. Something like that.

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Re: Security breach at National Airport
Posted by: TheMeeper ()
Date: January 23, 2008 02:30PM

They don't enforce that rule anymore

ITRADE Wrote:
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> Is that rule still in effect? They USED to make
> the announcement 30 minutes out, but in the dozen
> or 18 times that I've flown into DCA in the past
> year I haven't heard it. I guess I was too busy
> hitting on the hottie in the next seat over.
> Something like that.

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Re: Security breach at National Airport
Posted by: Adam ()
Date: January 23, 2008 02:50PM

I've flown out of DCA about 30 times over the past year, and i've heard it over half of them. The last time i flew back in, they made the annoucment.

Your right, they don't always announce it, but it's still in effect.

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Re: Security breach at National Airport
Posted by: TheMeeper ()
Date: January 23, 2008 02:54PM

The TSA suspended the rule in 2005. Maybe certain airlines still do it on their own, but they are no longer required to do it by law.

Adam Wrote:
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> I've flown out of DCA about 30 times over the past
> year, and i've heard it over half of them. The
> last time i flew back in, they made the
> annoucment.
>
> Your right, they don't always announce it, but
> it's still in effect.

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Re: Security breach at National Airport
Posted by: WashingToneLocian ()
Date: January 23, 2008 04:09PM

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Here is a summons and a fine.

Next time the guy should keep his mouth shut.

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Re: Security breach at National Airport
Posted by: KeepOnTruckin ()
Date: January 23, 2008 07:38PM

I think they ought to pay him, for helping out the government.

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Re: Security breach at National Airport
Posted by: Raygun ()
Date: January 25, 2008 10:47AM

The security screening process has always been a joke to anyone with a brain. Now even more so.

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Re: Security breach at National Airport
Posted by: jeicen ()
Date: January 29, 2008 08:31PM

heh, i know of a security screener at dulles that doesn't watch the screen, saying that if anything happens he'll "see it on the news"

course it could just be my friend who works for TSA making shit up.

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Re: Security breach at National Airport
Posted by: The Economist ()
Date: January 30, 2008 03:26PM

KeepOnTruckin Wrote:
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> I think they ought to pay him, for helping out the
> government.

Agreed

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Re: Security breach at National Airport
Posted by: TheMeeper ()
Date: January 30, 2008 03:54PM

Not me. The govt. already hires enough dumbasses. I can think of few things more foolish and irresponsible than mistakenly carrying a gun onto an airplane. The fact that he turned himself in clearly demonstrates that he knew that his actions were wrong, yet he was still dumb enough to do it.

No way I'd hire this guy. He's just as bad as the lazy screener that failed to catch him.


The Economist Wrote:
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> KeepOnTruckin Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > I think they ought to pay him, for helping out
> the
> > government.
>
> Agreed

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Re: Security breach at National Airport
Posted by: Adam ()
Date: January 30, 2008 04:54PM

You guys do know that TSA tests screeners, i heard a figure of like 3,000 testers at random airports daily.

They said a majority of them do get through, but once they do. They show the screener what they missed.

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Re: Security breach at National Airport
Posted by: Travis Bickel ()
Date: January 30, 2008 04:57PM

National isn't so bad for security checks. Damn Dulles is a nightmare. At least it is my experience.

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Re: Security breach at National Airport
Posted by: omzcf ()
Date: March 22, 2016 04:28PM

Not good.

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Re: Security breach at National Airport
Posted by: Fuck ISIS ()
Date: March 22, 2016 05:42PM

Fuck these muslims

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Re: Security breach at National Airport
Posted by: this is from 2008 ()
Date: March 22, 2016 05:43PM

fooled ya!

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Re: Security breach at National Airport
Posted by: fgyntik ()
Date: March 22, 2016 05:54PM

Oh NO! what the hell happened? I hope everyone is okay!

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Re: Security breach at National Airport
Posted by: 25 DEAD?!?!?!?!?! ()
Date: March 22, 2016 08:53PM

This is terrible 57 dead?!

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Re: Security breach at National Airport
Posted by: adgber ()
Date: March 23, 2016 03:24PM

Fuck these muslims

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