MBA Confuses Security @ airport!

[TheMacGirl]

Thought i'd share this funny article from MacNN | Apple, Macintosh and iPod news

HaHa! Quite funny and frustrating at the same time

MacBook Air confuses airport security

The MacBook Air's thin design is causing some confusion for the technically ignorant, according to one blogger who says that the ultra-portable caused him to miss his flight. When going through the TSA airport security checkpoint, blogger Michael Nygard was held up as security staff gathered around his MacBook Air, trying to make sense of the slender laptop. One of the less technically knowledgeable staff points out the lack of standard features as cause for alarm.
"I'm standing, watching my laptop on the table, listening to security clucking just behind me," Nygard recalls of the situation. "'There's no drive," one says. 'And no ports on the back. It has a couple of lines where the drive should be,' she continues."

Nygard was made to wait until a younger agent came over to the gathering to inform his comrades of their error, that it is indeed a laptop and not a "device". After making three attempts to describe the concept of a flash-based hard drive, security lets Nygard through the checkpoint, only to go back to the service center to rebook, as his flight had since left.

[ultrablue662]

I think a bit of background info is in order. for those who dont know the TSA are a group of utter morons who after the happenings in NY on Sep 11th 2001 are in-charge of security checkpoints at all major US airports. I think the general requirement to be a TSA agent is something along the lines of born before 1924, an IQ equivalent to your shoe size, and a general lack of personal hygiene or simple mastery of ANY language.

For those who know who the TSA are... you were not one bit surprised by this story, huh?

[TheMacGirl]

Totally not surprised.. i would've smacked him in the head with his so-called "battery-less" walkie talkie, and yell at him "Wake up and smell the MAC!"

[dandantheitman]

Ha beat you to it MacGirl
MBA causes issues with the TSA

Although I was high amused by the whole debacle.

Dan

[noixe]

OMG!!!! are u serious? did this actualy happen?! ROFL!!!!!!!!
if tht were me, id prbbly be in guantanamo or sumthing, being Arab, having Mohammad AND Ahmad in my name AND havin a weird lukin "device" with me giong thru an airport in the US. and i'd prbbly assault one of em aswell cuz of them being totally ignorant of new things around them. and to think thy've given airport security in the hands of those brightlings

[Appleholic]

hahahah... ya i remember reading about this a few days back... i was so amazed on how ignorant they got... dude the thing opens and it has a screen and a keyboard how hard is that to make u confused on what kind of machine could it possibly be... oo well... some ppl have to be the dumb ones on this planet or else we would never feel better about our selves

[noixe]

ow, tht last sentence was cold Appleholic, very very very cold indeed:P

[Appleholic]

hahaha.. i know, maybe just a little bit colder than ii thought it sounded in my head... hahahah... sawy :P but its the truth dude :P someone has to be less smarter than the other.. :P thats just how life is :P better them than me :P

[noixe]

RoFL! totally agreed. feels nice to be smarter for a change:P TSA i guess is all brawn and no brains:P
i wna join EMUG now. wna do sum greater good for the mac society

[fangpyre]

The way you wanna setup your airport's security, is you want the short,
heavy set women at the front with the skin tight uniform.
That's your first line of defense.

You want those pants so tight the flap in front of the zipper
has pulled itself open, you can see the metal tangs hanging on for dear life.

Then you put the bag on the conveyor belt. It goes through the little luggage car wash.

Then you have the other genius, down at the other end, looking at the little X-ray TV screen.
This Eistein was chosen to stand in front of X-rays 14 hours a day.
It's his profession.

-Jerry Sienfeld