Day: November 2, 2010
Memos Detail TSA Officer’s Cocaine Pranks
NOVEMBER 2–The Transportation Security Administration worker who earlier this year was canned for falsely claiming to have discovered cocaine in the luggage of travelers was a bomb appraisal officer who was supposed to be evaluating new screening equipment at the time he was pranking his unsuspecting targets, records show.
TSA documents released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request provide further details about the January incidents at the Philadelphia International Airport. The name of the bomb appraisal officer has been redacted from the material, though one memo indicates that when the worker was confronted, “He did say humbly that he was completely wrong and he made a mistake.”
The TSA officer was working near a passenger screening checkpoint “collecting data for several new pieces of equipment that are currently being evaluated by Northrop Grumman,” according to a TSA memo. Since individual data collection phases could each take up to ten minutes, the worker apparently decided to fill up the time by pranking travelers: “While the data was being collected,” the bomb appraisal officer “began to engage passengers.”
Question of the Day
Did you remember to vote?
(I’m going to vote after work with Mrs. C and then we’ll congratulate ourselves for a civic duty well done with sushi.)
Remote Control Flying Ghost – Halloween 2010
(via BotJunkie)
Invisible Flames
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Mark Zuckerberg Gave out Full Size Candybars for Halloween
But in order to get the candy bars, Zuckerberg told them that they had no right to privacy and ordered them to remove their masks so that their candy preferences could be sold to third parties.
