Post by Jeanne Sager
As if we really needed another reason to loathe the TSA, a grieving grandson has got a doozy for us. John Gross says the TSA agent pawing through his belongings at the Orlando International Airport actually spilled some of his late grandfather's ashes. Oh, yeah, and then she laughed about it as he tried to collect bits of his beloved relative from the floor. That's the part that fills me with horror today. As each allegation of awful conduct in an airport comes out, it's fairly easy to separate the agent from the agency. Often these are simply employees doing a job. The real menace has been the TSA itself, the agency whose asinine rules these people are charged with carrying out. Usually.![]()
As if we really needed another reason to loathe the TSA, a grieving grandson has got a doozy for us. John Gross says the TSA agent pawing through his belongings at the Orlando International Airport actually spilled some of his late grandfather's ashes. Oh, yeah, and then she laughed about it as he tried to collect bits of his beloved relative from the floor. That's the part that fills me with horror today. As each allegation of awful conduct in an airport comes out, it's fairly easy to separate the agent from the agency. Often these are simply employees doing a job. The real menace has been the TSA itself, the agency whose asinine rules these people are charged with carrying out. Usually.