From The Indy Channel:
INDIANAPOLIS — A man’s attempt to bring the ashes of his grandfather home to Indianapolis ended with an angry scene in a Florida airport, with the ashes spilled on the terminal floor.
John Gross, a resident of Indianapolis’ south side, was leaving Florida with the remains of his grandfather — Mario Mark Marcaletti, a Sicilian immigrant who worked for the Penn Central Railroad in central Indiana — in a tightly sealed jar marked “Human Remains.”
Gross said he didn’t think he’d have a problem, until he ran into a TSA agent at the Orlando airport.
“They opened up my bag, and I told them, ‘Please, be careful. These are my grandpa’s ashes,’” Gross told RTV6′s Norman Cox. “She picked up the jar. She opened it up.
“I was told later on that she had no right to even open it, that they could have used other devices, like an X-ray machine. So she opened it up. She used her finger and was sifting through it. And then she accidentally spilled it.”
Gross says about a quarter to a third of the contents spilled on the floor, leaving him frantically trying to gather up as much as he could while anxious passengers waited behind him.
“She didn’t apologize. She started laughing. I was on my hands and knees picking up bone fragments. I couldn’t pick up all, everything that was lost. I mean, there was a long line behind me.”
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5 Comments so far. Leave a comment below.Grandpa was probably a terrorist anyway. You know he was an immigrant, right?
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I’d sock her in the face.
Fuck the plane, fuck it all I’d beat the shit out of anyone who would do that to one of my family.
And I’d like to see any jury convict me.
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Just to note I’ve never hit a woman in my life but I’d make an exception.
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dafuq? Seriously, in my opinion the TSA needs to pay a decent wage and stop hiring walmart rejects. Oh and dismantling the security theater display they are currently doing would be good too. Does anyone actually think they are safer will all the easily bypassed security measures they have in place? As well if a TSA worker can’t tell that an urn filled with human remains is not a bomb it doesn’t matter how much technology they have at their disposal. STOP HIRING FUKTARDS!
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If only there were some kind of *screening process*.
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