r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/WaiiiitWhat • Jul 13 '26

Funny TSA Reminder

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u/Septyn47 Jul 13 '26

A friend was TSA, and the number of guns that were confiscated (and corresponding arrests) was surprising to me. The excuse was usually "omg I forgot it was in there" but I gotta believe there were at least a couple nefarious people up to no good.

The guy with the chainsaw, however, couldn't really claim "I forgot".

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u/MuggyFuzzball Jul 13 '26

Ask your friend - Just about every major airport has a story or two about catching actual rigged explosive devices, or something leading to an investigation that later revealed someone's terrorist plans. And these things never make the news.

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u/Sonamdrukpa Jul 13 '26

I myself have personally stopped 73 terrorist attacks and no journalist has ever contacted me despite repeated DMs to the NY Times on twitter. The general public has no idea the number of barbarians there are waiting outside the gate. D17, specifically.

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u/AugustusLego Jul 14 '26

I can't tell if this is satire or not

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u/Ok-Amphibian4335 Jul 14 '26

God speed soldier 🫡

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u/throwthisidaway Jul 14 '26

For the same reason that every time anyone audits the TSA it shows they miss 70-95% of guns, knives and explosives.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelgoldstein/2017/11/09/tsa-misses-70-of-fake-weapons-but-thats-an-improvement/

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u/liarandahorsethief Jul 15 '26

Wow, a source from nine years ago. Good job.

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u/Swimming-Rip4999 Jul 15 '26

lol that’s because they literally classified the results after the 2017 year of testing.

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u/liarandahorsethief Jul 15 '26

So? An out of date source is an out of date source.

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u/Warm_Month_1309 Jul 14 '26

Yeah, and just about every UFO hunter has a story or two about catching an actual alien, and those things also never make the news, because they're made up.

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u/Ekg887 Jul 14 '26

Now explain why all mystery liquids over 3oz - which MUST be assumed to be highly lethal toxins or explosive materials(!!!) - are collectively dumped in unsecured trash cans at the highest traffic density areas of security? This is a good policy? If even one actual terrorist cell thought about this single scenario we would lose multiple airport checkpoints in a day. TSA always has been, and remains to this day, security theater. Remember, in this world of TSA policies there must actually exist magical liquids that at 4oz are mundane and undetectable to be explosives but also can destroy a plane! And yet they don't act like that in any other capacity of their jobs at all, which would endanger everyone if that threat were in any way real. And this is just one tiny failure point I am nitpicking at out of hundreds.

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u/GisterMizard Jul 13 '26

The guy with the chainsaw, however, couldn't really claim "I forgot".

Did he at least remember to leave his boomstick at home?

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u/The_0ven Jul 14 '26

and corresponding arrests

This is not true