Airport security....to far?
Two month ago several classmates and I attended a Leadership Conference/Competition in Fort Worth, Texas for BPA (Business Professionals of America) We flew from our hometown to Forth Worth and back. On our way back to our hometown we had a small problem. None of us had an ID or proper identification (usually when traveling with school officials there is no need for them) but giving that we were under age we were allowed through. However, those who were 18 were set aside and were asked question after question to verify who they were or else they would not be admitted on the plane.. Now I know that they were just doing their job and its just protocol or whatever but I just thought it was a bit extreme. I mean they were teenagers, seniors in high school, who were on a trip with a school organization, taking a flight that was about 1hr long. I guess...better safe then sorry, huh? What do you guys think?
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TL;DR Sorry
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Yes Better safe than sorry, if they make me strip down in public I will do it, anything to prevent these god awful terrorists from striking again
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Nothing says America like being forced to answer questions about your life. I despise giving up my freedom in the name of defending whatever it is we're defending. But hey that's life.
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The rules about ID, and lack thereof, are very clear on the TSA website. = = = = = = Passengers who do not or cannot present an acceptable ID will have to provide information to the Transportation Security Officer performing Travel Document Checking duties in order to verify their identity. Passengers who are cleared through this process may be subject to additional screening. Passengers whose identity cannot be verified by TSA may not be allowed to enter the screening checkpoint or onto an airplane. = = = = = = So, the Agents were following the law. Your friends could have legally been denied boarding, but the TSA people had to do their job. We always think that things like this are going too far, and I would agree that there is some point or some situation where it is too much, but whenever something happens, everyone turns around and yells about why something more thorough, complete, sufficient,... was not done. Americans are schizophrenic about security issues. We don't want it to impact us, but we always want it to catch the "bad guy."
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It has nothing to do with better safe than sorry. They have rules they have to follow at their job. They can't say, "Oh, well, you're high school seniors and it's only a one hour flight. I'll be happy to let you go through, breaking the rules and putting MY job at risk." When you work you have to follow a certain protocol even if you don't see the point. If you don't, then you lose your job.
