I know people who can kill with a golf ball tracker.

Surprised they didn't just blow it up.

terror...terror...TERROR

Nice to be reminded that we're still living in the land of the free. I'm sure glad the terrorists haven't won.

"Nine times out of ten it's an electric razor, but... every once in a while... it's a golf ball tracker. Of course, it's company policy never to imply ownership in the event of a golf ball tracker. We have to use the indefinite article 'a' golf ball tracker, never... 'your' golf ball tracker."

Nooooooo! start dropping bombs on random countries as a counter!

Get 'em!!!

"stopped his plane on the tarmack and PULLED-HIM-OFF!"

/ TSA... Teh Ghey?
// Per Schlaps!

So we had a discussion about the possibility of, 'Don't take that anymore,'"

Stupid? Sure, but closer to asinine. Why shouldn't he or anyone be allowed to take it? It's completely legal, safe, and reasonable. Why don't we just fly naked without any possession? It may sound over the top and ridiculous, but that's where we're headed with statements like that.

Yep folks, $5.5 billion of your tax dollars are spent annually for this display of ineptitude.

Second Portland related story today...quite a roll for us.

"Stupid? Sure, but closer to asinine. Why shouldn't he or anyone be allowed to take it? It's completely legal, safe, and reasonable. Why don't we just fly naked without any possession? It may sound over the top and ridiculous, but that's where we're headed with statements like that."

I'm so glad someone else read the article and thought the same thing. Maybe the impetus should be on the security people to cut down on their false positives. He has every right to carry a golf ball tracker

whats a golfball tracker?

elrich: Maybe the impetus should be on the security people to cut down on their false positives.


Well, it's not so much that is that he has the audacity to blame this poor guy that got pulled off an airplane and interrogated by TSA. farker should be apologizing.

Juan was a good man. He didn't drink, smoke, cuss, beat the wife, kids or aardvark in the back yard. His friends and neighbors said: Juan, You're a good man! You don't drink...aardvark...etc, why don't you run for town council?
...Juan was a good councilman. He didn't drink...aardvark, etc...friends said, hey Juan, you're a good councilman. Why don't you run for mayor?!
...joke goes on and on...mayor...governor...chancelor...etc.
...finally, Juan was a BAD president. He drank, smoked, beat the wife, kids and aardvark. And then one day, somebody shot him with a golf gun.
moran2: "what's a golf gun?!"
moran1: "I don't know, But it sure made a hole in Juan!"

If you outlaw Golfball trackers, only outlaws will have golf ball trackers

I believe what they are mangling by saying "golf ball tracker," is more properly known as a "ball launch monitor."

The past few years have shown that the then prevailing view of what makes for the most distance off the tee was largely wrong. Ball launch monitors changed all that. Most of the tour pro's work with one every time they look at a club head or shaft change. Even the nicer golf shoppes have them now.

/too much info
//love the slashies

karst:

Unless you have a concealed Golfball Tracker permit!

"Pardon me sir, but just what are you planning to do with this?"

"I'm gonna track me some BALLS!"

I was pulled aside carrying a radar detector (cause I drove one way and flew the other). But they figured it out soon enough.

Since the owner's plane was already taxiing it sounds like they mis-routed his bag first and then made a mistake about its contents as they sent it to the wrong place.

So we had a discussion about the possibility of, 'Don't take that anymore,'

Screw the TSA. Everyone should buy one of these and bring them on every trip whether they golf or not. There should be at least one for each checked and carry-on bag. And several in one bag... bundled together with wire... and mechanical alarm clocks.

The TSA has been the biggest boondoggle in history. It has increased cost by a factor of 3 (they're now gov't employees, not low paid security guards) with no measurable increase in actual security.

/Ask me if the TSA is a pet peeve

You people are horrible. These brave men and women risk their lives every day for little pay to make this country just a little bit safer. You people on the otherhand sit idly in your armchairs decrying their ineptitude while they slave away at their dehumanizing jobs.

/The above statement is completely false.

I brought on a shiatLOAD of electronic components (in little baggies) once and they wouldn't let me carry them on. They figures I could make a bomb from them or something, I guess, even though I had no explosives.

"Nine times out of ten it's an electric razor, but every once in a while... it's a dildo. Of course it's company policy never to, imply ownership in the event of a dildo... always use the indefinite article a dildo, never your dildo."

And one penis pump.


Well it's not mine, baby!

The above statement is completely false.

You must be talking about your own statement, because mine is demonstrably true.

Risk? What risk does anyone in the TSA face (aside from the risk of justifiably outraged passengers rioting and being "stoned" to death with removed footwear)?

"Nine times out of ten it's an electric razor, but every once in a while... it's a snake. Of course it's company policy never to, imply ownership in the event of a snake... always use the indefinite article a snake, never your snake."

/From the upcoming "Snakes In A Fight Club"
//"If this is your first night in Fight Club, you must fight a snake."

snakes~~~~~~ Why did it have to be snakes?

/ Indy

Archui

I was talking about my statement.

The TSA is the shiattiest waste of money ever.

My carry on bag had a Mach 3 Razor. (the power kind) They closed down the entrance, And police were called.

Alabama....

nuf said....

Archui

Thou art a self-spoofed rebuterator.

Picture of said "golf ball tracker"

Was Jack Bauer involved?

Once again, the old saying, "a checked bag is a lost bag" applies here. The passenger was in the plane taxiing out on the ramp while his bag was back in the terminal being x-rayed. At least that's how I understood the article, maybe I read it wrong.

If you fly, if at all possible, take carry-on bags only.

Is that Ironic surfnazi that the bomb in the picture is set to go off at 5:15? The same as the wage these screeners must be making.

Last week I got held up for a good 15min's while they ran my carry-on through the scanner multiple times, called other people over, then went though it (I love how they ask you if they can when you don't have a choice). Taking out different things and putting them through one at a time. I guess my electric shaver looked like something... felt like a fight club moment. Funny thing is this was the way back, so apparently they are not to sharp at some airports or are trained that bombs look like electric shavers at that one. Anyway to top it all off they forgot to put a few things back when they repacked it, But because I couldn't touch my own bag while they did all this shiat I didn't notice.

/Hey MCO I want a new set of rechargable batteries.

Just wondering about the surfnazi device. Why the speaker?

Does it beep, or does it countdown in a synthesized evildoer voice, or what?

And shouldn't the clock be digital with the last few seconds counting down in slow motion?

I guess even the terrists are on tighter budgets now.

I'm gonna set up a shop inside an airport that sells golf-ball trackers for cheap!

Screw that.

Next time I get on a plane, there's better be farking snakes and golf-ball trackers aplenty.

I heard someone say a few airports have gone as far as put on display items you can no longer take on a airplane