Adam Ruins Everything - Why the TSA Doesn't Stop Terrorist Attacks
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2015
- Adam shows us why airport security doesn't actually make us safer; it just makes us feel safer.
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That water bottle might be a bomb - can't bring it on the plane.... so just put it in the trash over there.
can't I just drink from it to show it isn't dangerous, sir?
+Krebons1200 No, but you can buy that $8.00 bottle just on the other end of the security line.
+Krebons1200 Don't you dare start asking questions that reveal how inept and arbitrary our security measures are. Next you'll be asking the flight attendant why you have to turn off your phone. You just do, OK?
+Chad9976 Whenever I travel, I'm allowed to empty out the bottle and take it with me, and fill it up later.
+Chad9976 Turn your cellphones off during the flight. It might send us through a wormhole because of the "microwave radiation."
When I was about 5, I brought on a snow globe while traveling. They scanned my bag and pulled it out. Even AFTER they KNEW it was just a snow globe, they BROKE THE GLASS and poured out the water and threw it away with me or my parents’ consent. Like that water was a bomb or something. And I was gonna give that snow globe to my cousin who was in the hospital on his BIRTHDAY. TSA sucks.
At that point I'd sure as hell give them a reason to detain me.
“Savages, savages! Barely even human!”
TSA reminds me of the security guards where I once worked. As an application programmer, I was having trouble with a particularly complex program, and decided to take the source code home to review over the weekend. The guard saw the hardcopy listing in my briefcase and told me that I couldn't take any documents out of the company. So I went back to my desk and copied the same source code, along with several other programs of interest, onto a floppy disk. This time the guard looked inside my briefcase, where the disk was clearly in view, and waved me through. Ah, "security"!
WhAt’S a FlOpPy DiSk?
Damn. He said it better 😂
Floppy disk? You mean a 3d printed save icon? 😂
once they confiscated a toy sword from me. they said I could kill someone with it, I WAS TEN YEARS OLD.
I remember when I was little my mom let me pack one of my bags my myself and I had put my crayon box in there. Once we reach the TSA they took my safety scissors. ://
Hamada Al Sayed I bought two TOY kids guns for my younger brothers. I went to the airport a day later and it got confiscated at the airport. I want my money back =.=
Anya hand luggage?
Alot of things you think can't be weapons can be weapons
@@lizzieelsenpeter7256 Oh my god, is that a phone?
You could hit someone with the phone and kill them! Now I have to steal everyones phone!
And is that hair? You could rip off your hair and strangle someone with it, only bald people are allowed now!
This isn't a reason to confiscate kids toys that people payed money for.
2:02 yeah, we know about this guy. we replaced his bullets with tic tacs.
Genius!
Mhmm, orange.
My favorite. 😎
Andy Gramajo who knew the CIA had a sense of humour?
He sounds like batman from HISHE.
The TSA is an organization with 55,600+ employees in 2014 that still managed to burn through $7.39 billion. Impressive for an organization that has utterly failed to meet every challenge it has met. Somebody is making A LOT of money off the TSA.
busi magen I thinking more in terms of what we are getting for the money not just potential corruption. Unlike a lot of people I do believe that government can play a positive role in society. It actually has for quit a while. For examples look at the Rural Electrification Program, Social Security and, yes, even the US Postal service.
But has 9/11 happened again?
*_Whoever that person or people are I want to congratulate them on their exploitation of american ignorance._*
@@baro5783 *_Did the tsa find more contraband than it failed to actually find? Even if the terrorist can't get through security the most they can do is shoot up the airport entrance._*
@@baro5783 YES several times in Ukraine it's almost flatten to the ground
TSA be all like, "If you don't let us touch you, then you're a terrorist."
Hell, TSA might as well just be the "Touchy Searchy Agency"
that's the secret meaning
The Medical Definition of TSA according to Merriam Webster dictionary is
Tourette Syndrome Association.
Google search for Tourette Syndrome comes up with:
Tourette syndrome (TS) is a neurological disorder characterized by repetitive, stereotyped, involuntary movements and vocalizations called tics.
Watch videos:
*TSA Molestation by onestarvids
*Miss USA molested by TSA
I wonder if repetitive, stereotyped, involuntary movements of groping other people's genitals can be regarded as tics.
lol
Wait, that's not what it's meant all along?!? 🤓😬🍻
Thousand's Standing Around! And one of the lowest paid agencies to boot too! TSA leadership has tried to argue for an exemption to federal minimum wage for their workers, while arguing for an increased budget in the same breath.
The TSA aren't useless. They saved the general public from the dangerous garlic bulb my friend was bringing me from out of state. To ensure the safety of everyone, my friend was required to deposit the garlic bulb in the trash receptacle. I can sleep better at night knowing these people are watching over me!
Really? Did you watch the video?
***** *Yea, after I commented, I noticed the joke. My bad
*smacks head
***** Yea, after I noticed I had already closed G+ on my phone
*was such an idiot
+Lauren Simonelli the TSA slammed my laptop on the floor shattering it into about 30 pieces and refused to replace it when i requested to talk to the supervisor i was detained for 24hrs without food or water then released and told to leave
i called lik 4 lawyers and they said they would not touch the case even though it was clear cut abuse and intimidation because it's against the law to sue the TSA
Hah well that sucks/ Normally, I just get reprimanded by my bf for being super inappropriate whenever I get the pat-down. I'll make jokes with the TSA like "Normally I pay good money to be touched like this..." or the crowd favorite "...lower....LOWER" The TSA can't wait to be rid of me.
On my way to Japan, I forgot to take my laptop out of my bag. The moment they pointed it out, I just thought to myself, "Well, it's my own fault," because I should know better. I travel by plane ALL the time. So the pat-down happened and some guy went through my carry-ons 7 times and did some paper test to check for something I don't care much about. They also handed me a laptop that wasn't mine and I could have easily walked away with if I wasn't a good person. The whole thing took far too long, but I didn't complain much.
That was until I unpacked my stuff in Japan. Because of me having to be investigated, they also went through my checked bags. They opened up my shampoo and didn't put the cap all the way back on. It was inside of another bag as well to prevent leaking, but they didn't reseal the bag. Shampoo got ALL over my stuff. Had to wash almost all of my clothes and spent a good few hours carefully washing all of it out of my jewelry. Not to mention the other leak-ables in the bag was completely drenched in shampoo. My luggage STILL smells like hair products.
TSA doesn’t care about your shampoo bottles in a checked bag. It’s substantially more likely your shampoo bottles exploded underneath the plane, which isn’t pressurized like the cabin.
"I'm not just a stranger, I have a TV Show"
10+ Familiarity points
The TSA also detained a furry for having a fursuit and then proceeded to go through everything he had, including his art tablet (which is illegal, by the way), and made him miss his flight.
Felicity LeRue good
@@ezrawyrd9275 bad
they should have put it on a no flight list
@@dum5247 They illegally searched a man to find nothing and made him miss his flight. Would you like that if it happened to you?
Tell me you're a furry without telling me you're a furry
Their super-long lines actually create a larger safety threat than anything they hope to prevent.
theres a thing called TSA PRECHECK btw that lets you skip that long line...
@@Legoman775 Yeah and it cost $85 plus you have to do an interview in person if I recall. Not worth it for people who fly less than once a year. Plus the fact you can pay $ to skip some of the BS just proves how fake and trash it all is.
The way Adam acts and talks reminds me of Alton Brown.
+'I'm an anti-social anarchist' I wish the world was better
+Daniel Tanase Ahhhh, that's why he feels so familiar! Thank you for this epiphany :D
+Daniel Tanase Too funny! That's exactly what I just told my husband earlier today!
+Daniel Tanase I get a John Oliver vibe.
Thats because Adam is his nephew.
3:22 That's not a mace. That's a flail.
+Bryant Langmuir TSA can't even get that right lol
+wildcoyote84 i'd argue most people wouldn't. Never heard of the word "flail" until now. I've always seen that described as a "mace"..Googling "mace" also shows the spiked ball and chain. It's not the first time words change their meaning.
ABANDON used to mean subjugate or subdue
BROADCAST used to mean sowing seeds
HUSBAND
The Old German words “hus” and “bunda” mean “house” and “owner”.
“Husband” originally had nothing to do with marital status at all,
except that home ownership made husbands extremely desirable marriage
partners in the 13th century.
+wildcoyote84 The number of nerds who actually care.
Melon Lord in short..it's a mace
+Bryant Langmuir You are exactly right! I know you can edit Wikipedia, but the information is accurate. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flail_%28weapon%29
This one time I went through a TSA screening and a man touched my junk, I don't have anything else to add. Just had to share this burden with others.
:(
:'(
They are rapists.
I can sort of relate to this topic. A while ago, I went on a trip to Merida in Mexico. I had to go through an airport in San Antonio, TX. It took a while to get through security, but I guess it went smoothly. However, in Mexico, I was detained to be questioned about the contents of a satchel I had brought with me. They ran it through the scanner and it turns out that a really old bullet casing had gotten lost in there that I got from my father. I found it appalling that they found an old bullet casing in a Mexican airport rather than an american airport, considering the fact that we should have the "best" security. They let me go but I did learn something that day. TSA is flawed however you look at it.
How has this show not been blocked by the government yet??
+LordPotassium hahahah right? maybe he should even do an episode on that.
***** i didn't
+Red Crafter The US, where the press is so free they weren't even allowed to show the coffins of dead soldiers some years ago
***** It was actually just a flat-out prohibition. Now it's changed to what you suggested.
+LordPotassium
Because Adam spared Obama from blame.
The TSA really does suck at their job. Back when I was in middle school my family and I went on vacation to Disney world and I forgot that I still had a large knife in my bag from a road trip we went on, and when we got to the airport they didn't even find it in my bag.
I suppose I should thank you.
I watched this video right before we got assigned to write a paper in Social Studies about individual rights vs. the common good based on a topic out of a group of about five topics. The TSA was one of those topics. You basically wrote my paper for me. Thanks!
DONT SAY BOMB!
+Rhinosaur I can say the instructions on how to make a bomb, without saying the word bomb.
bomb baba bomb ba bomb bomb ba bomb, what ya gonna arrest me?
+David Spurlock the police are at your door, please open it or delete will break it down
Mix a violent oxidizing material and a violent flammable material together which don't spontaneously explode together (likely both fine powders) and put in a small, tough container and light it up. (generalized instructions)
+Rhinosaur I said BOB... I have a pronouncing B issues, and my friends name is BOB!!
ARREST HIM!!!
ME "AAH!! HELP ME BOB!!!"
HE SAID B0MB AGAIN!!!
This show is a gift to humanity.
I love it too.
Some episodes of Adam Ruins Everything are excellent. However, there’s some that follow an agenda.
@@djl_cyber_yt And what agenda would that be? Follow up: What would be bad about that?
@@MrMighty147 If you think about it, Adam Conover talked about how black people are left out of gun debates. Many of the “ facts “ he stated in that video along with Ava who was the 2nd main personality of the episode, discussed about certain laws such as the Castle Doctrine and the Stand Your Ground act “ depending on your duty to flee “ which was oversimplified into one law. And another part of gun control was that they left out the fact that the Black Panthers in Oakland were terrorists according to vault.fbi.gov. In that episode, it wasn’t actually trying to warn others about our local gun laws, it was more or less trying to push an agenda established by a political group. I’m not 100% accurate on this take, but if you want, you can check out Actual Justice Warrior for more information that he covers on a few episodes of Adam Ruins Everything.
@@djl_cyber_yt "Actual Justice Warrior". How anyone can follow a channel with such a name and reference it with a straight face is beyond me. You are obviously anti gun control and since the internet is no place where discussions actually change peoples minds I'm not gonna get into an argument about that with you. So yeah the show demonstrated that American Gun Laws are completely broken and connected to racism. Just like so many things in America. That's a Fact.
Lol my uncle was in the army and he was trying to be funny to a cute TSA lady and he said “oh don’t worry I left my bomb making supplies at home”. His company got held up and he was interviewed by cops and federal agents for the entire day 😂
A lot of folks in the military is crazy and big outs
well hes an idiot then for saying something so stupid... lol
@@Legoman775 The idiots are definitely the descendants of Slave patrols for existing. They still exist as the police forces.
She’s a stubborn one. People flirt differently 😂
At least twice I've actually forgotten to take off my shoes, none of the security people noticed.
0:48 Imagine if the episode ended there. Adam says that line, and then it's just awkward silence, then the credits.
am I the only person thinking that the fact that the agents favourite flavour is orange is an inside joke? :)
because "agent orange"
Recently a man made it onto a flight with a loaded gun and didn't even discover it until he arrived. The TSA is worthless.
It's also possible that they were smart and knew that the checkpoints are just changing the location of any potential attack, and he didn't shoot anyone.
When I was a kid, the TSA (or whatever it's called outside the US) over reacted because my police toys at the time included a plastic baton. We were pulled aside because it looked like one, even though it was made out of the cheapest plastic China had to offer
This is true. I got this survival tool and was allowed to bring it on the plane. But security stopped me at the White House visitor center, which was in a seperate building far away from the white House. There is a massive problem when a visitor center has better security than a airport.
if the tool doesnt have a blade on it , its fine to go with you , cant say why the white house had an issue with it since I dont know their policy
The TSA also kills more people than they save. The logic goes that the TSA makes flying less convenient by adding 1-2 hours of commute time (have to get there early to get through security), that makes some people who would have otherwise flown choose to drive instead. Because flying is safer than going by car, a statistical number of those people die in car accidents. That number is estimated to be much higher than the theoretical number of people saved by the TSA.
Wow, iam speachless🤣🤣🤣 i need that thing that you are smoking
@@dansitensky3454 it’s called knowledge and logical thinking. Smoking is bad for you. You should learn things instead.
@@Basta11 and i feel like you could expand that logic further. Putting more cars on the road makes travel by car less safe, therefore the TSA is making driving more dangerous AND incentivising driving.
And the sad part is that with the TSA, you could no longer greet or say goodbye to your friends or family at the gate, you have to do it before you go through the TSA. I learnt that the hard way when I flew my first flight since just after 9/11.
I did it in 2005...went through the security checkpoint just to say goodbye.
You can you just need a gate pass and need to go through security as well
In India, you can’t even access the check-in if you’re not travelling. Families bid adieu to their loved ones at the exit.
Adam cites Air Marshals on planes as a post 9/11 security improvement, but to the best of my knowledge, no Air Marshal has ever stopped an attack either.
They still have air marshalls?
But has there been a successful attack you know of?
+Alexander Viray No, and if you believe that's proof of the effectiveness of air marshals, I have a tiger-repellent rock I'd like to sell you.
+Nick Johnson It's because of the new found vigilance of passengers especially the ones that stopped the shoe and underwear bombers
+Nick Johnson LMFAO!!!
Seriously! I remember being eight and going on my first plane ride (2 months old doesn't count) and a TSA agent getting all aggro with ME for questioning WHY they were doing the screening measures, just for ASKING if they were looking for a bomb, and that was 1990!
That's great, except TSA didn't exist until after 911.🤷
"we replaced his bullets... WITH TIC-TACS"
"mmm, orange... my favorite"
nathan hilliard lol
Somebody needs to make that a gif
I Like Orange Flavored Tictacs
Just last month, TSA almost had a crap attack because I had a "suspicious powder" in my suitcase. It was beignet mix I bought in Downtown Disney. It was still sealed in the box, which is probably how I got it back.
a couple weeks ago they confiscated my toothpaste
Wow
I'm so disappointed by this world
That dangerous toothpaste! You could kill the WORLD with all that fluoride!
They took sunscreen from me.
They took my sardines!
Did they at least remember to tag you in their instagram photo?
Basically, if you travel frequently and are a law abiding citizen, pay the gov $85 for TSA Precheck and it’s valid for 5 years ($17 a year) so you won’t have to go through the bs.
You’re still subject to the same rules as well as random addition screening.
You just get to keep your shoes on and leave your things in your bag!
But ok.
My favorite part is how it shows them sitting in chairs after screening so they can put on their shoes. HA! That's rich! Chairs. This show is hilarious!
i would bring my smelliest shoes i have
I recall my last time I had been to the airport, the TSA noticed something was weird in my bag and asked me if it were mine. I said yes.
He looked through my stuff and found the bottle of water, I kept from the last airplane flight I went to. (I wanted to keep it in case something happened, y'know like Lost)
Then, he told me, water bottles aren't allowed even though I clearly hadn't opened it and still put it in the trash and left my stuff out there in the open. Y'know, not helping me get the stuff back in the bag quickly like the nice guys that they are.
But the funny thing thing is that I had two water bottles in my bag, but apparently the machine saw something was wrong and took out only one of the water bottles. And that was a funny moment, as if to say, they search until they find the mysterious item and leave the rest.
TL;DR I had 2 water bottles in my backpack, the guy searched in my backpack, took out a water bottle and told me that was illegal. But the other bottle (they were small) was still there and didn't bothered to look for the 2nd one. I guess he didn't want to work more than he wanted.
They usually have this 3.4 Ounces (100ml) rule and if your bottle exceeds that capacity, it has to be chucked.
I know it's annoying. I answered calls for a low-cost airline two years ago. It's kinda mind numbing tbh. I had a caller who visited the Philippines and was booked on said airline on the way home, and was frustrated that TSA confiscated his Nipa Palm Vinegar he brought home to try on a Bagnet recipe.
TSA’s are just perverts and ex porn stars
I remember once, I said bomb in a hotel elevator after hearing a dinging noise, and everyone just looked at me like: "Don't you say bomb."
I watch this video literally every time I'm standing in line at airport security. I love this show sooooo much.
When I was coming home from Germany they took away my souvenir from Switzerland(a lighter, a gift for my great uncle) but they left my sharpened daggers. They also checked me because I had some speakers.
Every dollar spent on the TSA is a dollar not spent on health care or public schools.
it's all the same. You have to pay for Healthcare and go to hospitals dozens of times before they cover anything. Schools barely teach any job trades. Most people in schools could careless about you decades even after you graduate from them.
Yeah, it totally works like that😂😂😂
Facts
my dad has a pocketknife with 4 blades on it, once he forgot that it was in his pocket when we went to the airport and remembered when we were already on the airplane, TSA hadnt even noticed it
I remember having a layover through the Charlotte Douglas airport in NC and while waiting in line, I was muttering under my breath a sarcastic remark to my fellow passenger about the length of time it was to fake check everyone. I look up and see a sign that explicitly said, "No jokes please. The TSA doesn't like jokes." Tough crowd.
By the way for you guys that are worried, they took away the “naked body scanners” at all airports and put in AIT scanners which only see a silhouette of you and metal things get highlighted
oh great more need to explain metal plate in my wrist.
My ex friend has a magnet in her head, you can imagine how hard it was to travel with these. also my mom has metal in her knees from knee replacement surgery, but luckily she hasn’t had to travel since then (travel is incredibly difficult for her old age and her knees)
"And make sure to tag me David." 3:45 hahaha
It's not a lack of respect for the TSA for me so much as something is fundamentally wrong with the way the agency performs its duty. I doubt there is a reasonable person who thinks that airport security should be done away with, but the TSA is currently doing that job ineffectively. Citing the recent study which showed 95% failure rate to catch weapons. Sure, the TSA has successfully stopped some handguns from getting on flights. And that's good, but how many have they missed is the better question. Even if they only missed every other one (a marked improvement from 67/70) that is still 500 more loaded guns on planes. I'm not saying stopping 500 weapons is bad, but if a different group could have stopped a few thousand, I want those people.
Put another way, what if you had a car that 9/10 failed to start. It also leaks oil and fuel and has no working radio or A/C. Also imagine that this car costs as much as a brand-new BMW. Sure you would eventually make it to work on time in the first car, but not as quickly, efficiently, or effectively as you would in the second. And that is fundamentally the issue.
Their job is important, but some of the key fundamentals are absolutely wrong. And the people responsible for fixing them aren't doing anything effective about it. I encourage you to read the Cracked article by Rafi Sela. Even though the source is a bit dubious, it makes some effective arguments that are less about blaming the individual officers and more arguing that their entire training doctrine is wrong. This argument coming from a guy who once ran airport security in Tel Aviv, so it merits some consideration.
5:00 "TAS"
"These uniforms are very cheap."
They're probably designed that way because if they said "TSA" it would be impersonating a federal officer.
Ironically our shirts are very cheap TBH - they cost like 15$ and dont hold up very well and we only get enough budget to get 6 shirts year. And nobody wants to spend their own money on them because we have to return them.
This guy is right on track worked for them for almost 3 years what a nightmare.
Once, before a flight, my dad who's caucasian, was holding a drink (I think it was a cold coffee) and when going through the security check, they determined that he had a bomb in his hands. They had to interrogate him to make sure he wasn't a terrorist. He wasn't. It was weird. Also, the guard that was there said we had to throw out our drinks (A Sprite) but said we could keep the food (It was some Pixie sticks)
Why would you bring a vape grenade to an airport?
Maybe they wanted to see what would happen? Who knows.
While vacationing you see it at a store and decide to buy it to show off to your friends then it gets confiscated by the as top comment put it "Touchy Searchy agency"
"Vape grenade" when it explodes it sends vape everywhere like a smoke bomb
I had a comb from the spy museum in D.C. The tsa didn't like it and forced me to put my whole backpack into the luggage area since it "looked like a possible weapon". They didn't let me put it in my suit case, they needed it to be in the specific backpack I put it in.
Yeah, this is exactly what I thought! I like how when my family and I were going to Disney world, and we were dressed in Mickey Mouse shirts and all, looking completely like tourists and they had pulled us all aside to search us! Do we look in terrorists?? I mean, come on!! And they had me and my mom pull up our shirts and everything, right out in public!! Not in a separate room or even behind a wall or anything! Traveling via airplane completely sucks!!
+Demonica Slaughter Brown skin with a beard.
If we search everyone who looks like our perceived notion of a terrorist then planes will be safe! /s
+Demonica Slaughter Not like us is all I know..
I get what you saying but terrorist aren't dumb there not showing up dressed for the part
+'I'm an anti-social anarchist' If it's Jesus then he get's a pass.
+ViperFoe And I know this people!
His reaction to being on TV.
"no thank you..."
I've accidentally left countless things in bags that should not have made it past security, but have, something as easy to find as a half litre bottle of orange juice.
In the philippines, the airport security IS THE THREAT. Like for real, one airport plants bullets in a passenger's luggage so they can stop them, check their stuff, and confiscate them.
One time a minature gun was taken from a little girls toy, the gun didn’t shoot anything, and was mad to fit in a dolls hand
The failed test screenings at 95% were not just for missing explosives. You could fail it just by having the person who was supposed to be monitoring you mess up. So you could check the bag the right way and find the explosive or if there wasn't one then not find it but still fail.
I once left my server bag in my purse and my wine opener was confiscated at TSA. I asked what made it dangerous and they told me it was the ½ inch blade (the foil cutter that barely even works on wine labels) and not the 2 inch pointed corkscrew end that was concerning to them. Hmmm.
"Papers!" "Papers!" "Let me see your papers!" That's what this is really all about.
0:29 that RD plush
I didn't see that before!
This is the same thing going on with Coronavirus.
This is the single greatest video I have ever seen! Go Adam.
Thank you for this, Adam! I just sent this to my state representative who want to keep funding the TSA.
Once when I was in a screening they took my backpack filled with clothes only because it had liquid in it (It was eyedroppers) and tested it and such yet on my carryon (which didn't raise any alarm or suspicion) carried pepper spray, like one of the no no's to carry on flight along with knifes and such.
When they replace your bullets with tic tacs :/
That TSA instagram is hilarious, they took a pie. A pie lol
+BlerdsOnline Like the time the TSA confiscated that dude's sandwich... cause "it might have poison" or somesuch... and then ate the sandwich while he was still in line. AYEP.
+BlerdsOnline The person who took that must have just seen that one episode of Spongebob.
+BlerdsOnline true, but that photo on instagram is between 2 smoke bombs and a hand gun...
all this videos still blow my mind .
"If you have a pacemaker, remove it."
"The illusion of security isn't worth it if you have to give up essential freedoms and privacy to get it." The TSA agent puts on a glove.
"Hey, watch it." Adam.
"Stop clenching."
The TSA in any part of the world with high security has NEVER given me the illusion of safety! I always feel very frightened and hate going through it. It just makes me more anxious on a plane.
I was in America last year and they found something wrong with my hand luggage and they opened it and checked all 5 of my Vanguard deck boxes that had my cards in them. They wiped some sort of thing on them to see if they had drugs or something.Needless to say I felt awkward and became worried that they would take away my cards for a moment. Thankfully they were nice and found no problems and let me through with my stuff.The fear of my cards being lost was real though.
Although once in either Galway or Cornwall (I cant remember which) I went to the airport there and security was a breeze. Yeah it was a tiny airport, but the relief of not having to go through all that nerve wracking scanning and that was immense.
when i was going back from illinois to texas, they searched like half my family's bags.
we had nothing unsafe
not sure if this contributes to the topic
but i just remembered the time my best friend went to an airport once, she was around 13-14 (we were kids) and she brought this decent looking scissors from our school
it got taken away cause it kills people but she only uses it to open stuff like bags of chips and never to kill somebody,
that was the only sad thing she told me when she went on a vacation, because the airport never returned the scissors after they went home and it was the only decent scissors the school gave us
i love this
The shoebomber and underwear bomber didn't go through TSA. They came from Amsterdam and Paris where TSA nor Dept of Homeland Security exist. Both flights were headed to the US. So how can TSA miss them in countries they don't work?
cant be bothered rewatching vid but im pretty sure he was just sayin they did not stop them because the scared dude thought they did but i get what u mean, either way its pretty obvious tsa is useless if they havent been recorded to stop anyone with a bomb and even failed tests to find the fake placed bombs.
..both Amsterdam and Paris also have airport security that operates the exact same way
they made me throw away my homemade deodorant even though it was small enough yesterday
Lol that dude has a Rainbow Dash plushie at 1:00 in the background.
I watched someone get tackled for accidentally saying “bomb”. But when I accidentally said “No Russian”, nobody even batted an eye.
I'll take Things That Never Happened for $500, Alex.
I have always been annoyed by the fact the TSA will rob me of my water bottle, laptop, fluids etc. Even though it's all for nothing.
Why do they still think it's a good idea to give people all this stress when going flying if it isn't even usefull.
Argh, annoys me AF.
Why the video has only 15k likes after 8 years? It should be more popular especially in 2023 when these airport checks became more absurd. Please share it more!
Because Adam Conover's popularity took a nosedive since this video was released. He stopped focusing on revealing things that were actually wrong and focused more on his Left Wing politics. As a result he's basically seen as an unrealiable clown.
"it doesn't stop them from finding new ways to hurt us 😁" :3 that made me chuckle.
I also love this (it confirms what I always suspected)!
Everyone loves confirmation bias
I got detained once by the TSA for almost an hour because I had a blu-ray player in my backpack. I asked the TSA agents beforehand if I needed to remove it from my backpack, they told me it wasn't necessary, but detained me anyways.
The TSA cant detain anyone , so this story never happend.
Sounds like it set off an alarm. You could have just left it if you really wanted to leave... but they wouldn't (and cant) just hold u. Especially for that long. You'd be dealing with the bomb squad within 10 minutes.
Love this show!
I saw an add for thins and I thought, "I'll check it out" I loved this after then
"the TSA violates your privacy"
"we need to spend more money on intelligence"
What kind of intelligence?
NSA intelligence that violates your privacy. That's why that idea was stupid.
I think the point was it violates it pointlessly. If it did do good results, then we'd have to weight the pros and cons, but if someone said they had to do a cavity search on you because the barrier reef is dying, you'd probably object since you don't see how doing the search helps at all. Also you'd probably object anyway, unless you're into that sorta thing, but you know :P
They didn't say invasion of privacy is outright wrong. They said it isn't worth it if it doesn't actually do what it's supposed to do. Intelligence agencies actually helped increase security. The TSA doesn't.
Learn to listen.
Jay Bartgis what about a synaptic dampener that blocks all violent tendencies and controversial thought patterns for the rest of the flight?
Orange tic tacs are the best! :D
0:20 "If you have a pacemaker, remove it."
The TSA officer looks my lobster dead in the eyes and asks "you got a bomb in there?"
I just missed a plane because of that useless security check.
I usually don't bring anything, and wear slippers. If you don't have anything they can't do anything.
Once they confiscated a nail file from my 85 year old grandmother....
this never happend because there is no policy that have them take a nail file . unless it somehow had a blade on it
They're lenient on screening for old people but why would the elderly be above the rules?
Thanks for the info Leonard Hofstadter!
The crop top bomber LOL
The thing is.. you can't "stop" a terrorist attack, because a terrorist attack isn't an attack until it happens. If you pull the pin from a grenade, how do you stop the explosion? You can't. If they Take a fully loaded gun from a passenger, they haven't "stopped a terrorist attack", they've just inconvenienced a hunter. It's not legally a "terrorist attack" until the terrorist "attacks". Then it's too late.
There's Cia and fbi listening on terrorist groups when they are making a plan to attack. So yeah you can prevent the attack.
@@NickolaySheitanov the fbi and cia can listen in on known terrorist groups to prevent an attack, (not every single one obviously because 9/11 happened and birthed the tsa) but what if you right now alone decided to make a bomb and bring it on a plane? You didn't discuss it with anyone, you used a VPN so you couldn't be traced or looked it up on a burner phone or public computer however you'd wanna do it, how would the fbi or cia know you were gonna do it? You're not on any watch list right? Without TSA you'd get away with it no problem.. And those groups don't have the manpower to station dozens to hundreds of cia and fbi operatives (depending on the size of the airport) at every single airport in America. Nor do they want to pay the salaries of hundreds of thousands of new operatives.
On one hand, the TSA does nothing. On the other hand, if we basically changed nothing after the attacks, people would probably go into paranoia afterward. So blame...the public?
You can't really blame the public for being paranoid. They may have overreacted, but that's what large groups of people do when they get scared of something.
they did change something did you watch the video?
you're right, being cavity searched by a big guy really makes me feel safe!
ARX 351 I volunteer for deep cavity searches because passenger safety is my number one priority.
pretty much. you often hear how passengers feel inconvenienced ( and they are) but it's worth the security of feeling safe.
Thank you VO Adam
“Don’t say bomb!”
Bomb
It’s kinda like school but for security:
TSA when they see drugs, bombs or ammunition: Kalm
TSA when someone brings a water bottle over 100mL: PANIK
that's why I support home schooling
That's the guy from Westworld
lol that was hilarious and informative
Even after all the years this episode had aired, we still have Touching Search Agency still present for some reason.