TSA can’t believe MacBook Air is a real laptop, causes owner to miss flight
Posted Mar 10th 2008 7:58AM by Darren Murph
The TSA has been known to take issue with products designed in Cupertino before, but for one particular traveler, it was Apple’s thinnest laptop ever that caused the latest holdup. Upon tossing his ultra-sleek slab of aluminum underneath the scanner, security managed to find enough peculiarities to remove it from the flow, pull it aside and wrangle up the owner for some questions.
Apparently, the TSA employee manning the line was flabbergasted by the “lack of a drive” and the complete absence of “ports on the back,” and while hordes of co-workers swarmed to investigate, the user’s flight took off on schedule. Thankfully, said owner was finally allowed to pass through after some more in-the-know colleagues explained in painfully simple terms what an SSD was, but the poor jet-setter most definitely paid the price for trying to slip some of the latest and greatest under the sharp eyes of the TSA (and cutting it close on time, of course).
Source: http://www.engadget.com/
But this is not a new laptop. It has been out for a while now.
God ! How official people can be so stupid ???
I intend to go to the US ths summer, but such events don’t make me too confident !
This just cries out for the Dave Barry treatment :-
The TSA is a bunch of incompetent government boobs!
These are idiots who have failed in life, who used to work for Wal-Mart.
They are jealous of travellers who are their social and financial betters.
They get their revenge by humiliating well dressed travellers and travellers who have advanced technology.
TSA stands for The Stupid Authority-Wanna-be’s.
Next time that guy will learn that he has to get to his flight on time.
Please don’t come to the US if you intend to insult us.
I for one am thrilled that the TSA is here to protect my life and glady wait online.
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The TSA is a lot of window dressing.