TSA Strikes Again

You may have heard about a recent security breach at New York's JFK airport. Here's the full story.

The TSA’s bungling reached a new low yesterday when a JFK Airport terminal had to be evacuated and hundreds of passengers marched back through security screening all because one dimwitted agent failed to realize his metal detector had been unplugged, sources told The Post.

The stunning error led to hours of delays, two planes called back from the runway and infinite frustration for furious passengers.

“The truth is, this is the failure of the most basic level of diligence,” a law-enforcement source said.

“How can you expect the public to feel confident of the mission of the TSA if they don’t even know if the lights are turned on?”

But wait … it gets better.

The chaos at Terminal 7 was caused by screener Alija Abdul Majed, who had manned Lane No. 1 during the morning shift with no idea his metal detector had no juice, sources said.

Alija Abdul Majed … you have got to be kidding, right? I mean, seriously … Alija Abdul friggin' Majed?!?

Having a government employee named Alija Abdul Majed who is responsible for preventing terrorists from getting on planes is almost as bad as having a leader of the free world named barrack hussein obama.

Amazingly, he failed to realize that alert lights never flashed once as streams of passengers filed through the dead detector, the sources said.

Majed was so clueless that he couldn’t even tell police how long the machine had been shut off or how it happened, the sources said.

Just to show that wasn't an isolated incident, we have the following.

A man suffered humiliation and distress at the hands of an airport security agent when she insisted on opening a jar containing his grandfather’s remains and then dropped them on the floor.

John Gross, of Indianapolis, was trying to bring (the) ashes home from Florida and had them in his bag in a  tightly sealed jar clearly marked ‘Human Remains’. 

The 91-year-old’s remains had been divided up among family members after he died in 2002 and Gross had been given a share by his uncle during his trip. 

He was confronted by the TSA officer and explained what was in the container.

'They opened up my bag, and I told them, "Please, be careful. These are my grandpa's ashes,"' he told theindychannel.com. 

‘She picked up the jar. She opened it up. 

‘She used her finger and was sifting through it. And then she accidentally spilled it.’ 

As a third of the jar’s contents fell out onto the floor Gross frantically tried to gather it back up, a line of passengers waiting behind him. 

' She didn't apologize. She started laughing. I was on my hands and knees picking up bone fragments. 

'I couldn't pick up all, everything that was lost. I mean, there was a long line behind me.’ 

Gross later found out that TSA rules state that staff should not tamper with human remain containers under any circumstance. 

Instead they are supposed to put them through an X-ray machine. 

Nothing can be done to regain the ashes. But Gross said he wants an apology from the TSA and from the individual agent 'who opened the jar and laughed at me'. 

'I want them to help me understand where they get off treating people like this,' he said. 

On the TSA website it states: 'Passengers are allowed to carry a crematory container as part of their carry-on luggage, but the container must pass through the X-ray machine. 

'Out of respect to the deceased and their family and friends, under no circumstances will an officer open the container even if the passenger requests this be done.'

Tomorrow, for your entertainment and amusement we'll present more examples of government bungling.

It's not like there's a shortage of material...