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Pissed off people

I thought it would be interesting to note the lad’s conversation with his Dad early this afternoon. The Dad had flown to another state to participate in a meeting yesterday and today. Along with several other colleagues. Not much is currently allowed on the plane with you including laptops and make-up and such.

Wellll, the Dad’s checked laptop never made it to his destination. It’s either stolen, lost, or misdirected. It’s definitely not where it’s supposed to be which isn’t helpful when there is prepared material on it for a presentation at a meeting. Evidently several other people’s luggage never made it, either.

The professional women are as mad as hell because they had to dump all their pricey make-up. There wasn’t time to replace it after debarking from the plane. They arrived at the meeting looking a little worse for wear and, let’s face it, in the professional world you don’t necessarily want to show up at an important meeting looking like you just crawled out of bed. Nor, I suspect, spend $100+ dollars for replacements every time you travel to a meeting or conference. And these are people who travel a lot.

Yesterday’s meeting didn’t start on time, either. No surprise there.

I won’t relate the terms in which the Dad described this latest action, but it surprised me. He was one of those on an airplane on on the morning of September 11 when the World Trade Towers were hit. He was so whacked out by it, he refused to fly for eight months afterward. He totally welcomed the resulting security measures. So it’s not like we’re talking about a devil-may-care kind of guy.

I think fed up is an appropriate term here. Sounds like there was a room full of very pissed off people yesterday and today.

Posted on 08/11/06 at 07:58 PM
 




justme

Um GC1 flew in on Wednesday, thank you very much to what ever gods that need to be thanked LOL! She was shaking watching the news. (She also wishes that this could have been found out a couple days before so she could still be in sunny CA still Im sure) Scary isn’t it. I am not in a hurry to fly anyplace, that’s for sure!

United States   Posted by justme on 08/12/06  at  07:12 AM





Kate

Yes, it’s scary that there are crazy people who think blowing up airplanes is a cool thing to do and apparently have the means to do it.

No, I am not a real fan of flying these days. But there are people who have to fly every week and I’m sure they aren’t very happy either. I should think video conferencing would be seeing a huge growth at some point. And probably more bankrupt airlines.

What I’m not sure I understand is why airport security hasn’t improved very much in the past 5 years. This plot is a redo of one that was foiled 10 years ago. From what I’ve been reading and hearing there is security technology available that sniffs out these kinds of explosives (and many others). Why are they not standard equipment at airline checkpoints yet?

And where the hell are Osama bin Laden and what’s his name Zawahiri? You think that maybe rather than blowing up countries in the middle east, we ought to have been quietly finding these ringleaders and slapping them behind bars? They’ve both been wanted men for at least a decade. I dunno. Seems like a reasonable question to me.

United States   Posted by Kate on 08/12/06  at  03:14 PM





Joann

Good luck in getting his laptop back, if ever.  2 years ago we went the rounds with the TSA regarding stolen/misplaced items from my husbands luggage - items in value upwards of 1,500.

The process for compensation is basically a huge stonewall and we never did get it covered.

It is too bad that those employees who are hired to protect our safety by searching through all the checked baggae aren’t very honest individuals.

United States   Posted by Joann on 08/12/06  at  07:00 PM





Kate

It hasn’t turned up anywhere yet, so he has pretty much written it off at this point. I don’t know what steps must be taken to place claims, but since it was his employer’s property, they must have to get into the fray, too. I’d guess anyway. This kind of stuff isn’t going over very well with the corporate world.

The other thought that comes to mind...if it’s that easy for ‘security’ to steal stuff without detection, what’s to prevent them from inserting stuff into luggage?

United States   Posted by Kate on 08/12/06  at  07:43 PM





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