TSA Bans Flight If You Refuse To Show ID

mytrip notes a CNet blog entry on the recent TSA rule change banning flight to anyone who refuses to produce ID. It's OK if you claim to have lost or forgotten your ID — you undergo a pat-down and hand search of your carry-on bag and you're on your way. The new rule goes into effect June 21. "The change of rules seems to be a pretty obvious case of security theater. Real terrorists do not refuse to show ID. They claim to have lost their ID, or they use a fake. TSA's new rules only protect us from a non-existent breed of terrorists who are unable to lie."

Re:Yeah, about fake IDs

[liquidf]

...but did you two show ID?

This is terrible news

[Anonymous Coward]

Good thing rising fuel costs will bankrupt the airline industry in a year or two.

Meanwhile at the customs...

[brunokummel]

Imigration Officer: What's your name, sir?
Passenger: Batman...
Imigration Officer: Come again? Your last name, sir?
Passenger: Suparman ...
Imigration Officer: Funny guy ahn? Take him down, boys...

While the other officers beat the crap out of the poor fella, the Imigration officer checks his passport out [imageshack.us]

Re:Wrong

[Anonymous Coward]

Romania. Our English might sound a little bit funny to your fine ears, but if 10^6 Yankees/Southerners decided to migrate to RO, I am pretty sure the locals' English would improve over night. ... I almost forgot. Our internet kicks asses, too. Fast speeds, NO ISP throttling, DC++ hubs all over the place.

Dont forget to bring your guns and SUVs!

Re:Yeah, about fake IDs

[Idiomatick]

Yes but even if the magic elves DID exist the policy would do nothing.

Terrorist elves are real!!

[Reziac]

I'm reminded of a story that came over the wires of United Press International, on September 10, 1980 (the teletype printed it during my shift while I was DJing, so I saw it with my own eyes):

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Police in Laurel, Mississippi report receiving a call from a woman who told them she had been attacked by a band of elves. Investigating officers were dubious to begin with and the woman didn't help her credibility by pointing to a blank wall whenever she was talking about the window the alleged elves came through.

When one of the officers pointed out that there was no window where the woman kept pointing, she reportedly told them the elves had taken it with them.
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It appears the TSA believes that if we just get rid of all those windows, no more elves, er, I mean terrorists will come through them!!

Re:Real terrorists

[Anonymous Coward]

Real terrorists don't have fake IDs. They have real IDs. For some reason though, their IDs do not say "terrorist" clearly on the front. Probably an oversight.

Re:Conservative Fascism

[Tophe]

They're not called warrantless wiretaps - it's called Freedon Listening now. :D

Re:now don't take this the wrong way

[evil_aar0n]

Say, what language do you think in: Moo or Baa?

Re:Yeah, about fake IDs

[Alsee]

Just out of curiosity, are these male or female magical elves?

Female elves are sexy.

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Re:Yeah, about fake IDs

[andruk]

Well, I was originally gonna' call them Beaner Rodriguez and Derka-derka Mohammad, but I figured I might offend a few people.

That said, I didn't want my point to be lost in the cries of "your just prejudice and insensitive".

Re:Yeah, about fake IDs

[Foobar of Borg]

Overreaction is what governments do best!

But governments need to overreact! If you don't think of the children, the terrorists have won!

Re:Terrorist elves are real!!

[Yetihehe]

The best part is being a band of elves. If you rob someone, no one will believe the victim.

Jake Johannsen

[nfk]

"Then there's that part of the speech, when you're flying, where they say if you are unable or unwilling to open the emergency door, you shouldn't sit next to it. Does that bother you? Unwilling? Now, who is the jerk who is unwilling to open the door of the burning jet and let us all out? I didn't even think a person like this existed, but they know he's out there, they wrote him into the speech. Not only that, they know he operates under a strict moral code, whereby he must confess if he is called on it. Ok, you got me."

Re:Female elves are sexy to human males

[Alsee]

but to an elf- you look like a native of Brobdingnag with pores the size of quarters....

Yeah, but in elf terms I'm hung like one too. :D

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Re:Yeah, about fake IDs

[nickhart]

"The explosive used was liquid nitroglycerin, which was disguised as a bottle of contact lens fluid."

Next stop on the TSA security theater tour: force all passengers to jump up and down (in an isolated, reinforced concrete bunker) before boarding the plane. We'll get those nitroglycerin-wielding terrorists yet!