The pair were charged after Port Authority Police got an anonymous call at 7:15 a.m., reporting an incident on the secure side of Checkpoint 1 inside Terminal C. Officials said the marijuana appeared to have fallen out of the pocket of an unidentified man before several screeners briefly gathered around the bag, and Francois then directed Morris to throw it in the trash.

Is it just me, or is it bizarre that someone would just happen to call about this?

The screeners do not seem to know
Where all of the nickel-bags go?
Then here's what we tell 'em:
Why not try to sell 'em
To Oakland, since they're running low?

TSA screener uses a little common sense and doesnt make a big deal out of nothing.

and then things get blown out of proportion

/I mean FFS, I HATE the TSA as much as the next guy, but give me a break.

people should start dropping bags of oregano while standing in the security line.

That's got to be -some- security camera that can ID pot in a bag on the floor...

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: They zigged when they should have zagged.

Yup, they bongled this one good.

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: It's the classic existential question: doobie or not doobie?

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The trees and blunts of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of tokeables
And, by opposing, smoke them.

There is nothing as deeply satisfying as finding a bag of weed on the ground. Unless someone else sees you finding it.

/Then nothing sucks worse than finding a bag of weed on the ground.

AntiNorm: "Throwing away" my f*cking ass. They probably pocketed it.

Well, they put the baggie under some paper cups, and let the cops find it the first two times. Then, when the cops put down some real money, they remembered they "threw it in the trash," grabbed the table, and ran off into the crowd.

AntiNorm: "Throwing away" my f*cking ass. They probably pocketed it.

You am not read good:

"...officials said a surveillance video captured them throwing a bag of marijuana they had found on the terminal floor into the trash."

UNIONIZE IT!

As I've stated before, I used to work for the TSA (the law enforcement branch, which I had to convince a farker who was a screener, actually existed - the REAL cops with REAL guns and REAL badges). Not long after the TSA beast was brought to life, an off duty officer who wanted to carry on a plane, and had all the paperwork in place, was shut down by a screener in the Atlanta airport. I am not "profiling" here, but the screener had three inch purple fingernails, a bad weave, a horrible attitude, and refused to look at the paper that allowed him to carry off duty. She confiscated his weapon and dumped the spare ammo, magazines and all, in the same trash bin that they put water bottles and other off limits debris into. Yes, she was counseled and yes, the situation was rectified. But I stand by my assertion that many (not all) of the TSA screener corps couldn't get a job guarding a skating rink.

Yes, legalize it already. Tax it, eliminate the national debt. My happy California native ass is already plotting how to move home after I retire, and that adds to the allure.

thebigfingerbang: MmmBadEggs: PainInTheASP: There is nothing as deeply satisfying as finding a bag of weed on the ground.

I completely disagree. Just as likely it's a bag of urine-soaked oregano or dirt weed dusted with PCP. You'll never find that free pillowcase of Sour Diesel, though long may you look...

Money on the ground is good. Drugs on the ground are bad. ALWAYS buy your drugs from a reputable dealer.

hey, i disagree. i've found some pretty awesome drugs on the ground.

/i ALWAYS try to stay after the last act at the main stage at whatever music festival i'm at to give the ground a once-over with a flashlight before somebody else scores my quarter of dank nugs

seriously. in younger days had to beat the feet way too many times. bags & bones get tossed from pockets, from car windows, you name it. found pills? nom nom nom, whether it's on the streets of NYC or in the bottom of a pocketbook. a dealer may have found or stole what he just sold you so what's the difference.

"A spokeswoman for the Transportation Security Administration said the pair should have turned the drugs over to law enforcement authorities."

Ha ha TSA, youre not real cops.

If it had been a bag of mysterious white powder, though, what would they have done?

1. Assumed it was cocaine or meth and tossed it out?
OR
2. Assumed it was anthrax and shut down the entire terminal?

Because it would make a big difference, depending on what was actually in the bag, ya know.

thebigfingerbang:

They'd never tasted weed before and had no frame of reference, that's for sure. I hope they think "that sucks!" and never spend a dime on oregano. If they ever get real smoke, the paramedics will be scraping them off the floor.

/Poor dumb kids stay off my lawn.
//Pure as the driven snow...but just wait till I retire....

Cyno01: "A spokeswoman for the Transportation Security Administration said the pair should have turned the drugs over to law enforcement authorities."

Ha ha TSA, youre not real cops.

Ha ha TSA has real cops. They are called Federal Air Marshals (FAM). But I will say, I know a FAM who met a girl in the smoking lounge who laughed about how she got a doob past the screeners. He could have busted her but he didn't. He figured she was a harmless small fry and moved on.