Snozberry

Flying out of Austin this morning, the TSA decided to exercise its pathetic powers to steal a little cup of yogurt and a cup of fruit from me. Prior to the screening, I decided that there wouldn't be any trouble with a little breakfast making it through a screening at 6:45 in the morning. So I did the upright thing and put the little fruit and yogurt in the tray with my laptop (the alternate plan would have been to conceal it inside my bag and take the good gample that operator overload/fatigue/inexperience would allow it through unmolested).

After passing through the x-ray, the operator called over a second screener and whispered in low tones that the food looked clean, but were both probably larger than 3 ounces. The screener then approached me an informed me that he was going to let my little fruit cup through (only 3.4 oz), but had to confiscate my yogurt (a whopping 4 oz). I protested a little and was closing up my bag in haste (yes, I was pissed) and the screener said "Wait a second" and then snatched (yes, literally SNATCHED!) the fruit out of my bag citing that it was above the 3 ounce minimum. I asked him why he was now taking the fruit, after telling me that it was okay and he said "I was going to be nice and let it through, but you annoyed me and technically it's too big" or something similar.

Anyhow, now I'm sitting here without any breakfast. Poopers.

The TSA stole my breakfast and absolutely no good came out of it. The passengers of flight 1786 are no safer, a perfectly good yogurt and fruit cup have been thrown away, I made some TSA lackey's day marginally worse, and I have no breakfast.

Why the fuck do we have to abide by stupid rules and regulations that have no bearing on security. Why have we trained our TSA agents to look for harmless shampoo, mouthwash, toenail clippers, and pen knives? Humans can realistically only look for several items at once... shouldn't we be training them to look for real weapons, like guns and knives? Or maybe we go one step further and train them to look for anything unusual, whatever that may be?

Either way, the TSA is nothing more than a stupid organization of ineffectiveness, contributing nothing of value to our nation (but managing to cost us a great deal). It seems like they were created for the sole purpose of instilling fear in a populace that appears to have lost the ability to think for itself.