TSA Stealing iPads at DFW

[GhostTX]

im sure there are ways to circumvent that one as its not a hard gun case. I dont think minus xray for incendiary devices they should be able to open your stuff.

It doesn't have to be a hard gun case. Just a hard case within a certain definition (lock locations, hinges, etc). There's some guy out there that uses 80mm ammo boxes as his travel luggage.

[Cooter]

here we go again blaming the person and not the thief, cut a finger or his hand off and I bet he'd think twie about stealing more shit. Like I've been saying things being stolen from checked items would surprise you guys! its pretty commong especially over seas.

doesn't surprise me. and yes, I'm blaming the person as well as the thief.

idealism isn't some magical forcefield that protects you from the reality that SMF's are going to steal your shit if you give them the opportunity to...

cut a finger or hand off, and I bet he'd think twie also, but that's not the REALITY we live in, is it?

[jefehbk]

i will never use airlines as a mean of travel as long as the TSA is in existence. if I can not get there by plane, train, or automobile then I do not need to go. FTTSA and their Nazi regime. This is part of the governments New World Order.

[onemeangixxer7502]

why open it if you have xray available?

because some things can be deceiving

It doesn't have to be a hard gun case. Just a hard case within a certain definition (lock locations, hinges, etc). There's some guy out there that uses 80mm ammo boxes as his travel luggage.

im sure they could find a way if they wanted to open it.

doesn't surprise me. and im yes, I'm blaming the person as well as the thief.

idealism isn't some magical forcefield that protects you from the reality that SMF's are going to steal your shit if you give them the opportunity to...

cut a finger or hand off, and I bet he'd think twie also, but that's not the REALITY we live in, is it?

i just dont think some one should be put on trial cause some sone stole their shit

i will never use airlines as a mean of travel as long as the TSA is in existence. if I can not get there by plane, train, or automobile then I do not need to go. FTTSA and their Nazi regime. This is part of the governments New World Order.

enjoy the ice age of slow traveling . in my line of work commerical airlines are a necessary evil

[Cooter]

i just dont think some one should be put on trial cause some sone stole their shit
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I'm pretty sure nobody has been put on trial because somebody stole their shit

[onemeangixxer7502]

I'm pretty sure nobody has been put on trial because somebody stole their shit

obviously its stupid to check expensive items but everyone here lately is blaming the person and not the thief....

[GhostTX]

im sure they could find a way if they wanted to open it.

Not by law, they can't. Now, they can call you and make you open it while you watch them go through it. But they can't open it themselves.

[ceyko]

Not by law, they can't. Now, they can call you and make you open it while you watch them go through it. But they can't open it themselves.

Yeah and by law they can't steal iPads and other things.

Although, for whatever reason it does feel better to put a case on a plane with multiple locks, with more than one key. Don't know if it really is more secure from those thieves, but it feels better.

[ThreeFingerPete]

Not by law, they can't. Now, they can call you and make you open it while you watch them go through it. But they can't open it themselves.

Bingo. If it is the hard case that contains a firearm, they are not allowed to have the ability to open it.

[GhostTX]

Yeah and by law they can't steal iPads and other things.

Although, for whatever reason it does feel better to put a case on a plane with multiple locks, with more than one key. Don't know if it really is more secure from those thieves, but it feels better.

Oh, I hear ya. But if it's a soft case, it has to have a TSA lock to lock it, which they can open. If it's a hard case to secure a firearm, you can put any dang lock on there you want. Just one more thing to prevent a theft.

[71chevellejohn]

So put your ipad in your gun case. problem solved.

[mikeb]

I've flown every week for the past 3 years. I've had my bag "tossed" several times - stuff i've packed away carefully has been opened up in my luggage and rummaged through in a hurry, and left open afterward. I don't know if it's TSA or the SWA baggage handlers doing it, but it's irritating.

I never pack anything valuable so they never find anything. Valuable stuff goes on the plane with me.

[lowthreeohz]

ninjas got me for a multi tool...maybe i'll start flying with a handgun and hard-case my luggage.

[talisman]

It isn't confined to DFW...


NEW YORK (AP) — Police say a Transportation Security Administration agent stole $5,000 in cash from a passenger's jacket as he was going through security at John F. Kennedy International Airport, the latest in a string of thefts that has embarrassed the agency.

Alexandra Schmid took the cash from the jacket of a Bangladeshi passenger as it went along an X-ray conveyor belt at around 8 p.m. Wednesday, said Al Della Fave, spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey's police force.

"In viewing the surveillance video, we observed her removing the currency from the victim's jacket pocket," Della Fave said.

The video showed Schmid wrapping the money in a plastic glove and taking it to a bathroom, he said.

The money hasn't been recovered, Della Fave said. Police are investigating whether Schmid gave it to another person in the bathroom.

The 31-year-old Schmid was arrested on a charge of grand larceny and suspended pending an investigation. Her attorney's name wasn't immediately known.

Schmid, who lived in Brooklyn, had worked for the TSA for 4½ years, TSA spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein said.

"We do hold our officers to very high standards, and we have a zero tolerance policy for theft in the workplace," Farbstein said.

It's the latest in a series of recent theft allegations against TSA employees:
— Last month, an agent who worked searching checked luggage at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport was suspended after the owner of a stolen iPad used the tracking feature on the device to locate it at the agent's home. Police found seven other iPads there.

— Also in January, authorities charged an agent at Miami International Airport with swiping items and luggage and smuggling them out of the airport in a hidden pocket of his work jacket. He was arrested after one of the items, an iPad, was spotted for sale on Craigslist.

— Two other former TSA agents at JFK were sentenced on Jan. 10 to six months in jail and five years' probation for stealing $40,000 from a piece of luggage in January 2011. The agents, Coumar Persad and Davon Webb, had pleaded guilty to grand larceny, obstructing governmental administration and official misconduct.

— Last year, a TSA supervisor and one of his officers pleaded guilty in a scheme that lifted $10,000 to $30,000 from passengers' belongings at Newark Liberty International Airport. A federal judge sentenced the supervisor, Michael Arato, to 2½ years in prison and his subordinate, Al Raimi, to six months of home confinement.

[juiceweezl]

They have a "zero tolerance" policy for theft. Meanwhile they have video of the person stealing the money and said person is only suspended, probably with pay.