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TSA Foils Diabolical Plot by 10-Year Old Runaway – Well, Sort Of

Today, ten-year old Semaj Booker was detained at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport while trying to run away to Dallas.

An alert employee stopped him at the gate before he could board a Southwest Airlines flight to Sacremento. Apparently this isn’t his first attempt. In fact, in January of 2007, he actually made it on to the plane before someone noticed something amiss.

So, where was the Totally Stupid Administration on this one? Don’t those clowns stand as the first line of defense before you even get anywhere near the gate? According to the article:

Security tapes show Semaj Booker passing through a metal detector and other procedures before 5 a.m. at a checkpoint operated by the Transportation Security Administration at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. His mother had reported him missing to Tacoma police at 3 a.m.

Let me get this straight, this kid has done this exact thing before, and two hours after he runs away, TSA doesn’t have the wherewithal to put their crack forces on the alert to look out for him?

Did a ten-year old kid honestly bluff the entire TSA staff at the screening? You’ve seen how many people that is. I can’t even get my nail clippers through without being subject to a strip search, but this kid actually got through unescorted, without a boarding pass or ID, not once but twice – at the same airport. Either I’m the worst smuggler ever, or this kid is a diabolical genius.

Of course the third, and most likely option, is that the TSA is a complete clown outfit that is absolutely worthless. Does this really make anyone feel safer? Can we stop taking our damn shoes off before I have to walk through a metal detector that some moron probably can’t operate anyway? Can I finally fly to my destination with my toiletries? Can I stop having to consent to some random search of my personal belongings that won’t yield anything because the TSA wouldn’t know something dangerous if they saw it?

What an absolute sham. This is almost as stupid as right after 9/11 when we had the National Guard patrolling the airports with M-16s. That’s brilliant – shoot at a terrorist, hit him, have the bullet ricochet off his ribs, come out of his butt, go through the old lady behind him, down the terminal and plug some kid on the way to baseball camp. Awesome.

The TSA was built on this kind of stupidity. This was the environment that gave rise to their buffoonery. Then along come morons like Richard Reid before they had their play book in order, and presto! Your Converse All Stars are now a deadly threat to national security.

Don’t worry though, the TSA has their best people working on this.

TSA is investigating why he was not required to show a boarding pass at the checkpoint, said Dwayne Baird, Northwest region spokesman for TSA in Salt Lake City.

Oh, wait! You mean the lazy, surly, dipstick who sits there for this explicit purpose failed to do the only thing in the world we taxpayers pay them to do to ensure our “safety”.

FIRED!!!!

That’s what I’d say if this were my outfit – I wouldn’t even bother to put “you’re” in front of it. I’d just stand on one of those folding plastic tables, kick those stupid grey bins across the terminal to get everyone’s attention and announce it to everyone present. All of them. Fired. Go home. Thanks for playing – too bad you suck so much that the T-ball team just kicked your sorry asses.