TSA Stealing Laptops

Nothing demonstrates security theater more than the Transportation Security Administration, those re-labeled and higher-paid former airline employees who were basically incompetent when they worked directly for the airlines, but have since become better dressed and feckless in new and interesting ways since they were brought into the government fold post-9/11.

Between making people take off their shoes and empty their water bottles, and sip breast milk to prove it's not a liquid explosive, the TSA has found new way to annoy travelers - stealing your laptop out of your checked luggage.

This is partially the fault of stupid people who put their small, expensive electronic devices into bags that are tossed and smashed around before being placed in the underbelly of aircraft, where they are tossed and smashed around some more until you arrive at your destination, where they are removed from the plane, launched into a metal cart, and bounced into the terminal, where they are rocketed down a chute and spun in a circle until you either someone else walks away with them or you manage to find them, dragging them off the carousel and into your car.

The helpful TSA thief at JFK, working in cahoots with a baggage handler, even switched the luggage label so the bag would be purposely misdirected to buy them additional time and make it more difficult to ascertain exactly where the laptop and other items were stolen.

Thanks, TSA. Every day you give me another reason to feel safer in the air!

TSA officer caught stealing laptops at JFK , via BoingBoing