TSA Treats 95-Year-Old Wheelchair-Bound Veteran Like a "Terrorist," $300 Stolen!!

This happened to my 93 year old mother twice...taking a cruise to Alaska.

They did everything....I said it was too much and they replied that wheel chairs and old folk are used as mules for many things....

Still, it pissed me off.

Wow! Oh, How I understand! My son, he's 25 and lives in Louisiana.He was in the ARMY, was a combat medic with Airborne. Did three tours in Iraq, at Camp Spiecher near Tikrit. Josh came home for Christmas leave in '09' and had two weeks before he had to return. The family and I, there was probably 20 of us, took him to the airport in B'ham, Al. He was walking with the aid of a cane! He had come home to re-coup a bit after being shot through both legs.This was his 2nd Purple Heart. He was in full uniform and carrying a amall gym bag. Paperwork, drivers liscense, and Military I.D. in hand, They pulled him from the line and strip searched him! The only thing stolen, was his pride and ours too! Crooked ass TSA agents are notorious for abusing their authority and being common thugs with a badge. Just sayin....

I had a similar experience at the Newark Airport NY flying in from Reykjavik Iceland....I am a UK subject.
Disabled using a Go Go Pride mobility scooter, I was unfortunately pulled from the line by a greasy haired zit faced youngster who declared "drugs detected" from my scooter ..... They wanted to strip the battery pack, I told them that they were not going to as it would invalidate the warranty on the scooter......we don't care about that spotty said all this time there was a line of other passengers waiting for a connecting flight.

I said to spotty and 4 similar scruffy TSA agents in there United blue shirts.....your machine will be picking up trace amounts of gas from the batteries..... "Are you an engineer SIR? " the dickhead said....."Yes I bloody well am " I replied by this time after once again telling a woman this time to not try and strip the battery unit....the passengers were starting to heckle these indolent twats.

I took my passport and stood in front of zit face who told me to sit down.....I said we are British passengers flying from Manchester airport whose equipment showed no concern we flew into Reykjavik Iceland there scanners showed no concern we flew out of Reykjavik 3days later and again there scanners and a drug sniffing dog that was training showed no concern......we get to New York and we are being treated like common crack addicts, my daughter who is a Family Crisis Councillor my son in law who is a mechanical fitter my wife who is a keep fit instructor my ( at the time) 4 year old granddaughter and me l am a mechanical engineer and health and safety officer we are law abiding people who have never had any troubles with the law and never had problems like this on last occasions that we have flown into the United States.....you have held everyone up here for the last 20 minutes because you detected "something" and you want to pull my mobility scooter apart.....well you are NOT going to and I want you to read this....he didn't look so I read it to him very loudly "Her Brittanic Majesty Queen Elizabeth II & Secretary of State REQUESTS and REQUIRES to whome is concerned ( that's you ) I said In the Name of HER MAJESTY ( that means YOU are answerable to Her Majesty l pointed out)...to ALLOW THE BEARER of this Passport TO PASS FREELY without LET or HINDRANCE and to afford the bearer of this Passport Such ASSISTANCE AND PROTECTION AS MAY BE DEEMED NECESSARY....that I said means law enforcement or the armed forces laying down their lives in order to protect mine...there was a bit embarrassed silence and a woman from the queue shouts "that told you buddy so get a move on or you'll end up in the Tower of London" by this time these idiots had decended into not knowing what to do so they just let everyone through citing that the machine must be faulty.
This American lady approached us after we had got into arrivals and high fived me (it was the lady who shouted) and her husband said that was some speech but does it really say that in your passport so l showed them my passport and I said all British passports have the same message I went on to say your own own passport will declare something similar.....she looked and said oh yeah I've had this 4 years and never read it have you Frank I guess it was her husband....it said something like "The Secretary of State of the United States of America hereby requests all whom it may concern to permit the citizen/national of the United States named herein to pass without delay or hindrance and in case of need to give all lawful aid and protection".
I said there you go.....but she said yours sounds more regal and official......bloody TSA

Last Edited by Grumpyarse on 09/13/2022 04:32 PM

They did this to my 78 year old neighbor because he had $900 cash in his pocket.

I guess several $100 bills may be funding the terrorist

When is someone going to do something about this? How many hijackings have the TSA prevented? This is nothing but a Police State.