TSA staff admit to groping passengers

[Future PM]

Source.

Two airport security staff in the US have been fired after allegedly fondling scores of "attractive" male passengers.

Transportation Security Administration supervisors, acting on an anonymous tip, discovered the staffers manipulating passenger screening systems to justify the unwarranted pat-downs at Denver International Airport, CBS4 reports.

According to an investigation report obtained by the television station, a male TSA screener confided in a female colleague that he "gropes" male passengers.

"He related that when a male he finds attractive comes to be screened by the scanning machine, he will alert another TSA screener to indicate to the scanning computer that the party being screened is female," the report read.

"When the screener does this, the scanning machine will indicate an anomaly in the genital area and this allows (the male TSA screener) to conduct a pat-down search of that area."

On February 9, supervisor Chris Higgins observed the man signal to a female screener, who then pressed the screening button for a female.

During interrogation over the groping conspiracy, the woman "admitted that she has done this for (the male TSA officer) at least 10 other times".

"She knew that doing so would allow (the male TSA officer) to perform a pat down on a male passenger that (the male TSA screener) found attractive," the report quotes Mr Higgins as saying.

There have been no complaints filed by passengers over the allegations.


Read more at http://www.9news.com.au/world/2015/...oordinated-groping-scheme#RwXpJv62IeTFriCy.99

Finally, we have confirmation of what we've all known for years. They really do enjoy touching your junk, people.

 

[warpus]

Well, some of them do. Let's not paint a broad picture here, some of them only like looking at some of our junk. It's only a perverted few who resort to touching.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Well, some of them do. Let's not paint a broad picture here, some of them only like looking at some of our junk. It's only a perverted few who resort to touching.

I like your optimism. I don't share it, at all, but I like it.

Do you think this guy was being assisted by the girl TSA agent because the 'one' groper 'just happened' across 'the only' co worker that would help him out?

I think it is far more likely that she is not the only person he asked, she did it because it is pretty much routine, and none of the others he approached turned him in for exactly the same reason.

 

[warpus]

There seems to be very little oversight, and the people they hire seem to be of the "I'm going to look grumpy all day long and order people around because I'm so awesome" type - likely just ex fast food employees from the mid-west or something. Anyway, I wouldn't be surprised if there's a lot more of this going on.

 

[thecrazyscot]

My view on most TSA agents:

Link to video.

I don't like the TSA.

 

[Farm Boy]

There seems to be very little oversight, and the people they hire seem to be of the "I'm going to look grumpy all day long and order people around because I'm so awesome" type - likely just ex fast food employees from the mid-west or something. Anyway, I wouldn't be surprised if there's a lot more of this going on.

On of these careers has some measure of power and compensation, though unlikely enviable. The other one gets crapped on all day for less than $20,000(probably more like ~15,000) a year and junky, if any, benefits.

But your consistency is admirable!

 

[PhroX]

Isn't this kind of thing considered sexual assault?

 

[Triewd]

Isn't this kind of thing considered sexual assault?

Quite probably, also when you consider the tiny amount of people killed by Terrorist where American - 19 - it just does not justify the measures we take in the Weston World.

"Those who give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve nether and lose both"

 

[warpus]

Farm Boy, I call em as I see em. Your border/airport agents are unprofessional jerks. Whenever I set foot in your country, I don't ever feel welcome.

 

[PhroX]

Quite probably, also when you consider the tiny amount of people killed by Terrorist where American - 19 - it just does not justify the measures we take in the Weston World.

"Those who give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve nether and lose both"

My point was more "why hasn't this guy been arrested and charged with sexual assault?" The whole "security vs freedom" is irrelevant here, from what I can see, this person has been caught committing what appears to be an obvious crime, and yet he's just been fired.

 

[Farm Boy]

I agree with the border/airport agents Warpus. They are jerks. They're told to be jerks. They're empowered to be massive a-holes. Whenever I travel in my country I rarely feel welcome. The only time I've ever felt greeted was by one agent in California, returning from Shanghai. We laughed a while over the fact that their agents called me fat.

I like the fast food workers though, even when they're surly. They're my people.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I thought the implication was that you create this overnight demand for a whole army of TSA agents and what you get to fill the shoes is ex fast food workers. So you take people who have spent X number of years getting crapped on all day every day for a pittance and give them the power of Gandalf (YOU...SHALL...NOT...PASS!!!!!) and this is what happens.

 

[Farm Boy]

I don't think it matters who you give the power to. It's the DMV on rock.

 

[warpus]

The best experience travelling to another country was when I flew to New Zealand. The guys at the security checkpoint at the border there gave me smiles all around, greeted me nicely, welcomed me to their country, and then spent a half an hour trying to figure out whether they need to confiscate my pack of salamis or not. We joked back and forth through the whole thing. It made me feel at ease and like a human being. After all that flying, it was nice to land in a place where you're welcomed as a human, by humans. Set the tone for a great vacation.

I hate travelling through the U.S... as much as I enjoy the country and most of its inhabitants.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

The best experience travelling to another country was when I flew to New Zealand. The guys at the security checkpoint at the border there gave me smiles all around, greeted me nicely, welcomed me to their country, and then spent a half an hour trying to figure out whether they need to confiscate my pack of salamis or not. We joked back and forth through the whole thing. It made me feel at ease and like a human being. After all that flying, it was nice to land in a place where you're welcomed as a human, by humans. Set the tone for a great vacation.

I hate travelling through the U.S... as much as I enjoy the country and most of its inhabitants.

You just need to sneak in and avoid the jerks at the border altogether.

 

[warpus]

Yeah, and end up on the "we're going to torture you and stick things up your butt" or whatever the hell happens at Guantanamo and/or when you end up on a list.

 

[Farm Boy]

Oh pish. That list is millions long and Guantanamo is expensive housing. We don't even care enough to build a fence up there.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

You just need to blend in. That shouldn't be a problem, eh?

 

[Wrymouth3]

People complaining about being discriminated against at the security checkpoint? I'm offended I'm being discriminated against by not getting groped and fondled like a lot of people

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I plan on requesting a grope and fondle on my next trip.