if only there was some government agency that could prevent people from going in through the exit.

I'm flying up to Jersey on Wednesday. This is not going to be fun.

/plus staying at gram's sub-zero house

Samantha: I got myself outta Beirut once, I think I can get outta New Jersey.
Mitch: Yeah? Well, don't be so sure. Others have tried and failed. The entire population, in fact.

That place has the scummiest carpet on the eastern seaboard.

god help them all. I've been stuck in that airport and couldn't find food other than mcdonalds.

RobertBruce: god help them all. I've been stuck in that airport and couldn't find food other than mcdonaldsrobes.

FTFY

Yep. That system sure is workin' good, arite.

I was stuck at Newark after flying in from Eastern Europe back in 1991.

/Eastern Europe was better.

I'm trying to decide if it's a good idea to say something to them when I catch a connection there tuesday...

mtylerjr: dj_bigbird: if only there was some government agency that could prevent people from going in through the exit.

Wasn't that what prop 8 was about?

+1

TheMega: Being stuck in a damned airport sucks bad enough without them cramming it full of everyone they can find, even from loaded planes!

And, if the person going "in" the exit was a cop or high ranking airport official, you will NEVER hear who it was; AKA "We could not identify the individual."

There is SOME truth to this

The fact that someone could not only do this but do it without getting a single frame of video taken of him or her is just plain flabbergasting.

lobootomy: salmo: Newark is the worst airport on the planet.

Uh, Bangkok International, unless it has been remodeled in the past five years, was far worse.

Even then I'm sure the worst airports in the world are in Africa.

They have a new international airport in Bangkok, Suvarnabhumi International, and except for the lack of wifi, it's quite nice, although my opinion was colored by the fact that I was coming down with the worst flu I've had in my life as I was waiting to leave. It's not quite as nice as Incheon in Korea or Narita in Japan, but one of the better international airports I've been in. LAX, on the other hand, sucks almost as much as Heathrow, and JFK isn't far behind. Sofia, Bulgaria's airport was like stepping through a time warp into Soviet Russia.

I can't wait for these guys to get their own union. because that's JUST what the TSA needs to solve all their problems....

The terrorists really have it easy. They can just sit back while we terrorize ourselves, send in some looser with a half baked scheme, that probably won't work, every few years to let us know they are still out there, and blow the rest of the money on caviar and virgins.

If this airport security craziness gets any worse, I just might finally start looking seriously into taking freighters for international travel. Of course, then there's pirates to worry about, but between Somali piracy and the TSA, I think it's a tossup.

While I'm thinking about it, I'm going to just put this prediction out there. I think that the next threat to an airliner is going to come from a woman traveling on a passport from somewhere in either Europe or Asia or a US passport, who is wearing an underwire bra and has replaced the removable push-up pads with push-up pads made from explosive material.

One thing I've discovered from the fact that I have a bad habit of forgetting that one belt I have always sets off the alarm is that when they wand me, the underwire in my bra always sets off the beeping, but because it's an expected beep they totally ignore it. A terrorist could replace the underwire with a detonator wire and the TSA probably wouldn't notice.