+100, unfortunately not flying isn't an option.

-Blast

I'll second Blast and BlueSky... unless its work related I drive whenever possible. I hate that "raped" feeling I get from dealing with TSA...

-Bill Liptak

I lost my SAK swiss card that had been in my wallet for three years, totally forgot about it.

Ain't PHRASECENSOREDPOSTERSHOULDKNOWBETTER. great??? Stand in line for an hour, then get virtual searched, then have possessions seized without remuneration. Sounds like a good racket to be in.

I've flown everywhere with trauma shears in my IFAK, only to get them taken LEAVING Honduras. Go figure.

So far all I've lost is my dignity.

I don't understand folks forgetting tools and survival related items. If you forget this stuff under the stress of a TSA inspection, what's going to happen in a real survival situation?

That said, I don't fly anything within TSA's reach. Trip coming up, three days each way driving. I get to see the country instead of just looking down on it.

I've lost any sense that the govt is generally at least trying to help. These monkeys aren't helping. These are just good government jobs in the most classic, ironic sense.

When the TSA agent told me that he "couldn't tell if the container is empty" while holding my 3/4 used up 7 oz tube of toothpaste I refrained from going to jail by telling him to throw it away. (I'd had 10 minutes to pack for a sudden trip just after the 3 oz rule was instated)

Latest fun was that the TSA damaged a bunch of Mesa airlines commuter planes when doing night inspections of the planes to ensure they were "secure." They used the air data probes on the sides of the planes for handholds. I suppose incompetent sabotage is preferable to there being a bomb planted on a plane in the middle of the night?

We're doomed by our stupidity.

"...used the air data probes on the sides of the planes for handholds..."

Ya just gotta love it!!!

Check out this excoriating rant about the 'morons' in TSA:

http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?ContentBlockID=340a79d6-839a-470d-b662-944325cea23d


[Oh, and morons was the kindest thing he had to say]