Welcome to TSA — where we strip search grandma but let rappers bring their weed onto the plane. Don’t worry, though. Because they totally left him a disapproving note.TSA agents don’t appear to value their jobs very much.
Less than two months after an employee was fired for leaving a note inside a passenger’s bag next to her vibrator, another agent apparently followed suit – this time allowing a rapper to keep two bags of marijuana in his hand luggage with the note, ‘C’mon son’.
Indiana rapper Freddie Gibbs was flying to Denver where he was performing a gig on Wednesday with two large bags of weed in his bag.
But when a TSA officer screened its contents, instead of turning him in for possession of an illegal substance, they let him take the bag on the flight and left the note.
Gibbs tweeted a picture of the bag and the note on Wednesday night writing: ‘The TSA found my weed and let me keep it. They just left me a note. “C’mon son”. Lol.’
There’s a picture of the short note at the link. It’s written on a “Notice of Baggage Inspection”, which one would assume is not stationary left around for the general use of the public. And the photo displays multiple bags of weed, so it’d be a hell of a prank if it is. The rapper would be facing arrest and prosecution.
TSA now says it’s “investigating this claim”. Which is nice, but this is a serial problem at the agency. Back in October, a female blogger discovered a note in her luggage that read “Get your freak on, girl”. The agent had apparently discovered the blogger’s, um, adult toy.
The agency needs to be disbanded and replaced. It’s a stuttering clusterf*ck of a bureaucracy, behaving inappropriately and violating constitutional protections. And they get away with it. Why? Because they think you exist to fund them. What are you going to do about it? They’re bureaucrats and now they’re being allowed to unionize, so they’ll be even less accountable.


by Stephan Tawney on December 16, 2011